From the Beginning to Plato

Pausanias (2nd c AD geographer) 15,
on Lykosoura temple 27
Peisistratos, tyrant at Athens 31–2, 38
Peloponnesian League 36
Peloponnesian War 34, 36, 37
Pelops 34
Penelope 20, 24
Penner, T. 350n75
Periander of Corinth 32
Pericles 9, 208, 209, 248, 325
Perses, brother of Hesiod 17, 19
Persia 60, 69–70;
war with 10, 35–8, 39
Phaeacia 23
Pheidon of Argos 31
Pherecydes of Syros 14, 15, 41, 81
Phidias 249
Philip of Opus 273
Philolaus 160–1, 174, 292–3
Philoponus 168
Phoenicians 11–12, 15
Phoenix 22
Phrynichus 37
Pindar 34
Plataea 36
Plato 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 23, 32, 34, 37,
52–5, 68, 71, 79, 80, 89, 99, 125, 128,
129, 131, 136, 144, 151, 152, 153, 160,
164, 167, 173, 174, 217, 223, 224, 230,
232, 237, 246, 249, 251, 272–3, 276–7,
279–82, 287–8, 291–4, 298, 310, 311n9,
312n22, 313n36, 324, 325, 326, 342,
345n18, 348n60, 351nn179 & 86, 356–
93, 394–424, 425–55
Plotinus 165
Plutarch 28, 67, 74, 118, 121, 123, 124,
304
[Plutarch] 240
Polus 256
Polycrates of Samos 31
Polydamas 72
Polyphemos:
see Cyclops
Popper, K.R. 417, 419, 423n8
Porphyry 123, 278–9, 285–6, 289, 291,
312n26, 314n58
Priam 20
Price, A.W. 423nn8 & 10
INDEX OF PROPER NAMES 459
Proclus 123, 165, 260, 271–3, 277, 289–
90, 292, 295–6, 298–9, 301, 304, 307–8,
310, 310n2, 313nn36 & 39
Prodicus 246–8, 249
Prometheus, myth of in Hesiod 17–18;
in Plato 336, 348n59
Protagoras 5, 38, 208, 228, 246–7, 248–53,
324, 327, 328, 332, 335, 336, 337,
345nn19, 21& 23, 346nn31 & 38,
348nn58 & 59;
Protagoras’ subjectivism 228, 231,
240, 249–51
Protarchus 256
Ptolemy 293
Pyrrho 68
Pythagoras 69, 109, 117, 128–30, 164,
169, 196, 272, 277, 291–2, 295–8, 298,
301–2, 304, 313n34
Pythagoreans 3, 7, 27, 128–30, 159, 160–1,
166–7, 169, 174, 180, 323, 427–8, 448
Robinson, T.M. 117, 120
Rome 55
Rousseau, J.-J. 423n10
St. Elmo’s fire 76
Salamis 37
Samos 31, 128
Sappho 34, 42, 451
Sassi, M.M. 238
Schofield, M. 211
Sextus Empiricus 119, 120, 122, 125, 165,
167, 220, 227, 228, 230–1, 232, 233, 249
Sicily, tyranny in 30; 69
Sikyon 31
Simplicius 55, 62, 63, 64, 80, 131, 152–5
161, 162, 168, 169, 209, 210, 213, 216
226, 304–9
Socles 36
Socrates 3, 4, 5, 23, 37, 40, 88, 117, 121
152, 153, 164, 209, 216, 217, 220, 236
246, 264, 323–55, 394, 426, 447, 450,
451, 452;
Socratic intellectualism 341
Solmsen, F. 167
Solon 30–1, 32, 34, 37;
as founder of democracy 38; 42