Our Hellenic Heritage (Volume 1) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921. Excerpt: ... INDEX. n refers to footnotes. Abae, temple burnt and plundered, 331. Abbott, Evlyn, History of Greece, quoted, 296. Abdera, founded by men of Teos, 266. Abronyohus, 321. Abydos, 303, 307, 314, 357. Abyla, 67. Achaean League, 25. Achaeans, 21, 76, 204, 208, 209, 224. Achaemenes, 268, 277. Achaia, 26, 28, 317. Acharnae, 237. Achilles, chief of the Myrmidons in Thessaly, 21, 78; wrath against Agamemnon, 80, 81; his goddess mother, his doom of glory and early death, 81; refuses offers of reparation, 87; allows Patroclus to fight in his armour, 89; grief at Patroclus' death, 90; his divinely made armour, 91; fights and slays Hector, 92-94; his dream, 94; is moved to pity by Priam and gives up Hector's body, 98; his death, 100. Acrofolis at Athens, 203; seized by Cylon, 241; abandoned by the Goddess Athena, 334; fortified of old with a wooden palisade, 336; held against Xerxes, 340; captured by escalade, sacked and burnt 341. Acte, promontory of, 279, 301. Adriatic, 25, 333. Aeaea, Circe's isle, 154-5. Aegaleos, Mount (Skarmanga), 235, 341, 346; Xerxes' seat on, 352-3. Aegean, 20, 71, 207. Aegeus, father of Theseus, 69, 71. Aegina, 200, 204, 224, 309, 338, 344, 345. Aeginetans, 345, 351. Aegisthus, 104, 118. Aeneas, 102. Aeolians, 21, 22, 205, 257, 265. Aeolus, god of-the winds, 154. Aeschylus, fought at Marathon, 296, 296 n; describes the battle of Salamis in his play The Persians, 350-51; describes the massacre on Psyttaleia, 352; French version of The Persians, 1919 A.d., 353 n, 355; other quotations from The Persians, 330, 341, 349, 352, 354, 389. Aethra, mother of Theseus, 69. Agamemnon, King of Mycenae and leading prince of the Achaeans, 76; summons the Achaean chieftains to the Trojan Expedition, 77; compelled to sacrifice his daughter, Iphi-geneia, 78; ...