From the Beginning to Plato

436 INDEX OF TOPICS
narrative:
in art 13;
and identity 24
nature 90, 99–102, 104, 107, 120nn45 &
50, 122n86;
(see also nomos and phusis);
naturalism in art 12–13
necessity:
in atomism 223–8;
in Plato:
erotic compared to geometrical 410;
practical 422
neusis (verging argument) 307–9
night and day 94, 96, 103, 109, 118n31,
123n92
nomos (law, convention) 95–7, 120nn43–
4;
and phusis (nature, reality) 5, 6, 237–8,
240, 259, 261;
convention vs reality, in atomism 228–
9
nutrition 191, 193
opposites 57, 62–4, 65–8;
unity of, in Heraclitus 90, 94, 96, 102–
6, 107, 113, 118n18, 120n50
oral culture, limits on 29
oral poetry 11–12, 16, 19, 20
oriental influences on Greek culture 9–16,
28
pain 192–3
painting 181
paradox of enquiry, the, in Plato 375
people, political role of 28–9, 38, 40
perception 107–9, 122n88, 190–4;
in Parmenides 138, 145–7;
in Melissus 163;
in Democritus 228–9;
in Plato 379–80
perjury 197, 203
personal identity 99, 104, 121n54
persuasion:
see rhetoric
philosophers, in Plato:
as friends 409;
as rulers 409–10, 415–19
philosophia, use of term in Greek 9, 40
philosophy 109–10, 429, 434–7, 446–7;
pre-Socratic 1–4, 88
phratries, at Athens 39
physical forces 53–5, 56–9, 62–4
physiology 66–7
piety, in Plato 328, 337, 340, 350n75
planets 59
‘Platonic problem’ in Parmenides 136–7,
146, 172
Platonists 89
pleasure 192
plenum 184
poets 406–7
poetry 117n2;
and wisdom 32;
of symposium 32–3
politics 110–13, 236–9;
and philosophy 9;
political structure 40;
of archaic city 28–32;
in Iliad 21–3;
in Hesiod 17
polytheism 28
pollution 90–1, 114, 115
pores and effluences 190–4
possibilities, unrealised:
rejected by Parmenides 133, 136–7
pottery:
decoration of 12;
and symposium 32–3;
trade in 31
power:
see capacity
prayer 91–2, 118n16
privacy 97
property, disputes over 17, 30
proportionality 273–4, 276, 283–9
prose 55, 80, 89, 91, 117n2
purification 90–1, 115, 118nn10–15, 176,
197
quadrivium 271, 309–10
rationality, mathematical:
see irrationality, mathematical