WAR IN THE HELLENISTIC WORLD

Philon of Byzantion, engineer and
tactician, 26, 31, 86, 96–7, 99,
101, 108, 113, 123, 128–30, 161,
237
Philonides of Crete, long-distance
courier, 48
Philopoimen, statesman of the Achaian
League, 24, 31–2, 36, 43, 45, 47,
110, 194–5, 199, 210
Philotas, Greek-Baktrian king, 60
Phokis, central Greece, 5–6, 23, 42,
45, 70, 92, 117, 199
Phrygia, Asia Minor, 66, 85, 174
Phthiotic Thebes, Thessaly, 130, 133
Phylarchos, historian, 191, 207–8
Phyle, Attika, 7, 89
Pidasa, Karia, 29
Piraeus, harbor of Athens, 29, 32, 70,
88, 93–4
Pisidia, Asia Minor, 45, 69, 82–3, 85,
90, 148; Pisidian War, 171–2
Pitane, Mysia, 130
Plarasa, Karia, 32, 41, 106, 242
Plataia(i), Boiotia, 54, 228–31, 234,
243
Plautus, comic poet, 83, 104, 106
Polybios, historian, 2, 5, 9, 31, 136,
170, 175–7, 181, 193–5, 197–9,
208, 217, 220, 224, 241
Polyperchon, one of the Successors, 7,
110
Polyrhenia, Crete, 135, 151
Poseidippos, comic poet, 243
Poseidon, 94, 145, 149, 154–5, 164
Poseidonios, historian (2nd cent. BC),
219–20; historian (1st cent. BC), 5
Praisos, Crete, 9, 11, 19, 118, 132
Priansos, Crete, 128, 132, 135
Priapos, god, 154
Priene, Ionia, 23, 32–3, 40, 42–3, 72,
115, 123, 130, 141, 155, 232
Protogenes of Olbia, benefactor, 169
Prousias, kings of Bithynia: I, 200; II,
102, 147–8, 162, 177–8
Ptolemaios Keraunos, Macedonian
king, 61, 110; son of Thraceas,
Ptolemaic officer, 66; see also
Ptolemy
NAME INDEX
290
Ptolemies, dynasty in Egypt, 6, 13,
56–7, 60, 64–5, 70, 72, 79–80, 85,
89–90, 92, 95, 105–6, 116, 118,
126, 149, 152–4
Ptolemy, kings of Egypt: I, 33, 35, 57,
74, 92, 105, 111, 152, 158–9, 218;
II, 8, 33, 35, 58, 71, 73, 80, 88–9,
91, 110, 146, 152, 175, 191, 230;
III, 45, 58, 62, 95, 110, 152, 166,
218, 245; IV, 11, 63, 66, 159, 178;
V, 66; VI, 11, 13, 19, 61, 63, 105,
197; VIII, 11, 13, 166, 197; IX, 34,
46, 65, 90; X, 61; XIII, 232
Punic War, Third, 9
Pydna, Battle of, 6, 219, 231
Pylos, Peloponnese, 5
Pyrrha, islet near Crete, 12–13, 130
Pyrrhos, king of Epeiros, 6, 13,
58–9, 61, 63, 98, 107–8, 111, 192,
218
Raphia, Battle of, 45, 66, 79, 249
Rhamnous, Attika, 51, 84, 86, 89–90,
94, 121, 124, 128, 162, 164
Rhaukos, Crete, 11, 132
Rhodes, 8–9, 11, 15, 23, 39, 42, 61,
68, 72, 78–9, 83, 94, 99, 119–20,
136, 139–40, 146, 158–9, 178,
206, 212, 222, 235–7; Colossus
of R., 191, 236
Rome, Romans, 1, 6–9, 11–12, 14,
16, 23, 36, 44, 67, 79, 106, 124,
126, 129–30, 133, 139, 147–8,
154, 156, 160, 174, 178–80,
182, 200, 214, 224, 232, 235,
247
Sagalassos, Pisidia, 42, 85, 93
Salamis, island near Attika, 7, 49–50,
70, 88, 239; Battle of, 50, 239–40
Salamis, Cyprus, Battle of, 2, 7, 99,
231
Samos, Aegean island, 32, 35, 43,
50–1, 72, 86, 91–2, 97, 118, 130,
171, 219, 231, 250–1
Samothrake, Aegean island, 70, 118,
126, 236; Samothrakian gods, 145,
149, 154