From the Beginning to Plato

Index of proper names
Extended discussions are indicated by bold type.
Abdera 220
Academy 4
Achaeans 76
Achilles 20–4, 30, 447
Acragas 175, 176, 197, 198
Aeschylus 37
Aetius 57, 61, 65–6
Aenesidemus 106
Agamemnon 20–3, 198
Agathon 444, 445
Aidoneus 179–80
Alcibiades 324, 326
Alcidamas 256
Alcmaeon 83, 190
Alcmaeonidae 39
Alexander of Aphrodisias 54–5, 80, 118,
283–4, 304
Alexander the Great 24
Alyattes, king of Lydia 32
Anacreon 447
Anaxagoras 3, 4, 38, 48–50, 67–8, 79–80,
117, 176, 181, 205, 208–19;
biography 208–9;
book 209;
theory of matter 209–16;
stuffs and qualities 210–16;
‘everything in everything’ 211–14;
‘homoeomerous things’ 214–15;
Mind 216–19;
comparison with Democritus 221, 233;
249, 272, 304
Anaximander 2, 14, 19, 47–68, 74–5, 80–
1, 101, 205
455
Anaximenes 48–52, 58, 59, 64–68, 79–81,
101, 180, 184, 205
Annas, J. 410–11, 423n9
Anthesteria 26
Antiphon 237, 245, 260–2, 304
Antisthenes 264
Anytus 346n32
Aphrodite 11
Apollo 116, 122
Archimedes 275–7, 310
Archytas 272–3, 278–9, 285–9, 292–3,
311n17, 312nn21 & 23, 314n58
Argos 31, 253
Aristophanes 47, 324, 325, 344n11,
345n18, 444, 445, 454
Aristotle 1, 2, 3, 9, 28, 29, 34, 38, 48, 50–
6, 59, 60–1, 67, 69, 73, 79, 80, 82, 106,
120, 131, 135, 144, 145, 150, 151 156,
157, 158, 159, 160–1, 164, 167–8 173,
174, 189, 208, 212, 213, 214, 215 216,
217, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 226 228,
232–3, 249, 251, 253, 283, 285, 292,
294, 301, 304, 325, 326, 343n8, 356, 442
Aristoxenus 128
Artemis Orthia 28
Asia Minor 47, 79
Athens 5, 15, 16;
early use of alphabet in 11–12;
orientalizing metalwork in 12;
archaic political history of 30–2;
writers and thinkers from 37;
as cultural centre 38;
establishment of democracy at 38;
drama at 19, 37;