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Authors: Paul Johnson
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plague in
population size of
public events in
social mobility in
Socrates’ perambulations of
Socrates’ statue in
traditional religion of
women’s position in
see also
Acropolis
Athens, legal system of
Arginusae victory and
executions in
flaws of
prominent citizens prosecuted in
social demoralization and
Socrates’ upholding of
Thirty Tyrants regime and
undifferentiated public vs. private interest in
Austen, Jane
Bevan, Aneurin
Briand, Aristide
British Museum
Callicles
Callicrates
Carpion
Chaerephon
Charmides
Christianity
Churchill, Winston
Cicero
Cimon
city planning
city-states
Cleisthenes
Cleiton
Cleon
Clouds
(Aristophanes)
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Confucius
Critias
Crito
Crito
(Plato)
Critobulus
Damon
Dawkins, Richard
Delian League
Delium, retreat from
Delphi
Oracle of
Democritus
Demosthenes
Diodotus
Diogenes Laertius
Dionysus
Diotima of Mantinea
dithyrambs
drama
actors in
annual contests of
Book of Job as
chorus in
comedy
major playwrights of
religious origin of
tragedy
Egypt
Eleatics
Eleusinian Mysteries
entasis
Ephialtes
Epidaurus
Euripides
Euthyphro
(Plato)
Exodus, Book of
Ezra
Frogs
(Aristophanes)
genocide
Gladstone, W. E.
Gorgias
(Plato)
Great Britain
attorney general of
Bill of Attainder process in
taxation by
Greek language
Hebrews
drama of
language of
Torah of
Heraclitus of Ephesus
Hermippus
Herodotus
Hesiod
hetaerae
Hipparchus
Hippocrates
Hippolytus
(Euripides)
Holland, Lord
Homer
homosexuality
hoplites
Ictinus
impiety
Isocrates
Job, Book of
Johnson, Samuel
Jonson, Ben
Julius Africanus
justice
evil and
five principles of
as form of self-interest
moral absolutism of
retaliation rejected in
slavery and
for women
Keynes, John Maynard
Knights
(Aristophanes)
Laches
(Plato)
Laws
(Plato)
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von
Leonidas
Leon of Salamis
Longford, Frank
lyre
Lysander
Lysias
Lysistrata
(Aristophanes)
Macaulay, Thomas Babington
maenads
Marathon, Battle of
mathematics
Medea
(Euripides)
Megacles
Meletus
Memoirs
(Xenophon)
Meno
(Plato)
Miltiades
Moore, Henry
Moore, Thomas
moral education
More, Thomas
Munich Gallery of Antique Art
music
musical ethics
musical instruments
Myrto
Mytilene
Nicias
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Olympic games
Open Society and Its Enemies, The
(Popper)
Oracle of Delphi
paeans
Panhellenic games
Parmenides
Parrhasius
Parthenon
entasis of
frieze of
sculptural embellishment of
statue of Athena in
Pasion
Paul, Saint
Pausanias
Peace
(Aristophanes)
Peloponnesian War
Pericles
Aspasia and
cultural program of
death of
Delian League tribute spent by
humanism of
imperialism of
military funeral oration of
paeans favored by
plague and
pleiad led by
portrait sculptures of
prosecution of
Persae
(Aeschylus)
Persian Empire
Phaedo
(Plato)
Phaedrus
(Plato)
Phaenarete
Phidias
Philo of Alexandria
Plataea, Battle of
Plato
Academy of
career as poet contemplated by
dialectic defined by
drama and
eros
and
as first intellectual
mathematics in work of
mother of
on musical ethics
as radical conservative
republic favored by
retaliation and
Socrates as ventriloquist’s doll of
Socrates’ trial in works of
soul as viewed by
textual errors in work of
Plutarch
poetry
phrases in
recital of
of Socrates
Polus
Popper, Karl
Potidaea, siege of
pre-Socratic philosophers
Prometheus Bound
(Aeschylus)
Protagoras
Protagoras
(Plato)
Pythagoras
Pythian Games
Quintilian
Republic
(Plato)
retaliation, law of
rhetoric
Rodin, Auguste
Rome
Borghese Gallery
Greek sculpture copied by
Russell, Bertrand
satyrs
scribes
Silenus
slavery
Socrates:
on art
background of
charm of
children of
classlessness of
as conservative radical
courage of
craftsmanship as interest of
cross-examination technique of
death of
education of
Euripides’ play amended by
facial expression controlled by
gadfly as self-comparison of
good life pursued by
on Heraclitus
how to think conveyed by
human nature as viewed by
imperturbable serenity of
influence of
inner voice (
daemo
) of
irony of
jokes of
last words of
medical interests of
military career of
musical interests of
on Olympic victories
on oratory vs. philosophy
philosophical approach of
as Platsoc
portrait sculptures of
public career rejected by
pupils of
recurring dream of
religious views of
sayings of
self-control cultivated by
stone carver trade attributed to
theatrical attacks on
ugly appearance of
wisdom disclaimed by
women as viewed by
words defined by
zestful liveliness of
Socrates, trial and condemnation of
and Alcibiades and Critias
alternative punishment proposed in
charges in
conviction in
death sentence in
defense in
events leading to
ill-advised irony in
imprisonment in–80
jury of
last hours in
poison drunk in
refusal of escape from
Socrates
(Vlastos)
Sophists
Sophocles
Sophroniscus
soul
body and
Plato’s view of
Socrates’ view of
Sparta
in Peloponnesian War
Symposium
(Plato)
Symposium
(Xenophon)
Syracuse, defeat at
Thales
Theaetetus
(Plato)
Themistocles
theodicy, doctrine of
Theramenes
Theseus
Thesmophoriazusae
(Aristophanes)
Thespis
Thrasymachus
Thucydides
Torah
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de
Vitruvius
Vlastos, Gregory
Wasps
(Aristophanes)
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Wordsworth, William
World War II
Xanthippe
Xanthippus
Xenophon
Zeno
Zeus
Zeuxis
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