General Index
This index lists references to Greek and Latin texts as found in the main text and the footnotes. To avoid repetition, footnote references are not listed separately in cases where the footnote merely expands on the discussion of a passage in the main text. Ancient authors and their texts are gathered in the Index Locorum. References to Palladas and the Yale Papyrus Codex are spread in this book.
Achilles
17, 20, 31, 33, 34, 37, 40, 64 n. 85
Agamemnon
34, 40, 56
Aiakos
65
Akamas
17
Alekto
76
Alexandria
2, 4 n. 36, 22, 23, 29, 40, 50
allusions to earlier poetry in
4 W
74–86
8 W
10–13, 27, 74 n. 4
13 W
21, 37, 55–6
20 W
9–10, 22, 26, 27, 64, 74 n. 4
22 W
8, 27
23 W
27, 40–1, 56–7
35 W
16–19, 22, 27, 29, 38, 74 n. 4
36 W
23, 27, 37
Agathias’ Cycle
3–4, 14, 15–16, 23, 24 n. 32, 31 n. 11
Andromache
35, 37
anger
4, 6, 8, 14, 21, 22, 31–8, 39–40, 42 n. 4, 57–8, 60, 64
divine
31–3, 36, 37, 46
Antonius Polemon
28, 78 n. 40
Aphrodite
55, 64, 74–6
Apollo
38 n 37, 65
Ares
55, 65
Aristeides (the Just?)
8 n. 14, 21, 55, 56
Artemon
12–13, 27, 74 n. 4
Asklepios
65
athletes
25, 26, 28, 77, 78
Aurelius Asclepiades
68
Bakchos
14, 74, 75
beans
50, 52, 60–1
Bellerophon
39, 65
biting
12, 14, 17 n. 86, 52, 57–8, 61–2, 65, 85
Briseis
34
carpe diem
50, 64, 77
Chalkis
40, 69, 70
Christianity
4, 11, 45, 47, 48–9, 50, 52, 53, 59, 64
city council (boule)
6, 22 n. 11, 66–73
collar
11, 12
comedy
6, 11, 13 n. 53, 26, 27, 59, 74, 76, 81, 85–6
Condylus
84–5
consul/consulship
6, 38–9, 40
crimes/criminals:
adultery
3, 10, 21, 27, 32, 70
corruption, see politics/politicians
imprisonment
12
murder
11, 12, 64
punishment
12, 13, 39, 74–85
stealing
7, 22, 25, 26, 27, 36, 40, 64, 68–9, 76
cutting
57–8, 65
Damonikos
6, 40, 41
Deiphobos
75
delusion (typhos)
44–5
Demeter
23 n. 25, 65
dictum
21, 23, 50, 61
disease:
literal
60 n. 55, 76
metaphorical
of human ignorance
50
of political situations
57, 64, 68
of the Cynic lifestyle
58
of feet, see G/gout
Dorotheos
36
dreams
44, 82, 84, 85
eclecticism
44–5
Egypt/Egyptians
1, 2, 4 n. 36, 8, 11, 22, 28, 29, 36, 40, 41, 50, 64 n. 83, 66–72
Epigenes
81
epigram:
admonitory
24
ekphrastic
10, 14–5, 25–6, 65 n. 94
epideictic passim; see esp. 14–16
erotic
14–16, 17–9, 22, 27, 30, 42 n. 5, 77
Homeric influences
8, 17–18, 27, 31–6, 40, 42, 47–8, 56, 75
homoerotic
20, 80–1
mock dedications
25–6
philosophical/gnomic
4, 6, 7–8, 39, 42–53
skoptic passim
sepulchral
10, 14, 20, 25, 38–41, 78
cenotaphic
9–10, 22, 26
mock epitaphs
25–6
the individual epigrams in the Index Locorum
epigrammatic sequences/pairs
2 n. 14, 3–4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 15–16, 19, 24, 30–41, 49, 58
the Index Locorum
E/eros:
deity/personified emotion
17–18, 57 n. 25, 64, 65 n. 94, 74–5
eros/desire
17–18, 19, 20, 22, 75, 80–1
symptoms/lovesickness
5, 8, 17, 18, 22, 37–8, 47 n. 43
ethopoiia
23
Eumaios
75
fathers’ heads
50, 60–1
figurative language
6, 54–65
Gaius
84–5
Galerius
5 n. 49, 6, 22, 28 n. 84, 67, 71
Gessios/Gestios
6, 8–9, 10, 22, 37 n. 32, 38–41, 66, 78
gnome
45, 47–8
G/gout
6, 8, 21, 38 n. 42, 58, 65, 74–86
grammar/grammarian
23–4, 26, 31, 33–7, 42 n. 4, 45–6, 49, 51, 56, 70
Hades
22, 27, 35, 38, 39, 40, 42 n. 4, 61, 64, 65, 69, 70, 76, 77, 78, 80
Hektor
17, 35
Helen
32, 34, 75
Heliades
19–20, 22, 23, 63, 66 n. 6, 85–6 n. 104
Helios
65
Hephaistos
31, 55
Hera
32, 48, 59
Herakles
64
Hermaios
10, 21, 27, 66, 70
Hermes
7, 26–7, 32, 55, 64, 65, 66 n. 6, 70
Hermopolis/Hermopolite
2, 3, 5 nn. 46 and 49, 10–12, 13, 21, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 50, 64, 66, 70, 71, 85 n. 95
Heron
22, 27, 66, 69–70
Hieron of Syracuse
20, 67
Hypatia
4 n. 36, 46
hyperbole
5, 11, 26, 27, 29, 62, 78–9
Hypsenor
75
iambos
4, 7, 21, 26, 28 n. 90, 29, 33, 37 n. 34, 38, 57, 78 n. 38, 85–6 n. 104
idioms
6, 60–3, 65
imagery
54–65
India
67, 71–2
invective passim
Kallimachos
2 n. 13, 9, 21, 23, 27, 31 n. 8, 36, 37, 55, 74 n. 4
Kalliope
64, 65, 66 n. 6, 82, 85
Kephalas
5, 14, 15–16, 19, 20, 24, 30, 31, 33, 38, 40
Kirke
64
Klematios
10, 21, 31, 37, 51, 66, 81–2, 83, 85
Klytaimnestra
55
knife
52, 57, 58
Kore
65
Ladas (athlete)
78
Lasthenes
8, 22, 66
lameness
38, 78
lily (krinon)
58–60, 82, 83
Lykon of Troas
78
Lykopolis/Lykopolite
2, 28, 57, 64, 66, 68
maxim, see gnome
meat-hook (kreagra)
80–1
Megaira
76
Meleager’s Garland
2, 3–4, 14 n. 64, 24 n. 32, 25, 30, 33
Menippos
76
mist (achlys)
16–18, 37–8
mockery passim
Moira (Fate)
38, 39, 48, 64, 65, 76–7 n. 25
mosquito nets
15–16
mouse
58, 62
Muse(s)
2, 9–10, 22, 26, 34, 37, 63 n. 76, 64, 65, 66 n. 6, 85 n. 100
mythological exempla
5, 6, 20, 23, 26, 27, 63–5
names:
fictive
8, 11, 27
speaking
16, 36, 40, 84–5
Neilos:
criminal (8 W)
3, 10–14, 21, 26–7, 28, 31, 50, 64 n. 86, 66, 70–1
rhetor
11 n. 42
Saint Neilos of Ankyra
11
Nero
21 n. 4, 28, 29, 37
Nile
10–14, 26–7, 50, 64 n. 86, 65, 70–2, 74 n. 4
Niobe
20, 64
Odysseus
32, 33, 34–5, 37, 64, 69 n. 29, 75
Oinomaos
27, 52, 57–8, 63 n. 71, 66 n. 6
old age/man
4, 7–8, 14, 17, 19, 20, 22, 26, 31, 37–8, 58–60, 65, 78, 81, 82–3, 85 n. 100
Paian
65
Palladas of Alexandria passim
date
5, 6, 21 n. 1, 28, 30 n. 4, 47, 54, 66 n. 4
life
4, 28, 44–52, 54
poems in the Greek Anthology, see the Index Locorum and the Yale Papyrus Codex,see the Index Locorum
Pandora
31–2, 33, 47 n. 43, 55, 75 n. 8
paratragedy
6, 74–5, 77–80, 82–3, 85
Paris
34, 75
parody passim
Pegasos
65
Penelope
18 n. 95, 32, 35, 75
Phaethon
5, 19–20, 22, 23, 27, 63–4, 66 n. 6, 86 n. 104
Philip’s Garland
2, 4, 28
philosophical schools:
Cynicism/Cynics
6, 8, 21, 44, 45, 51–2, 57–8, 76
Epicureanism
6, 44, 45, 51, 52
Neoplatonism
4 n. 36, 44–6
Pythagoreanism
6, 10, 21, 44, 45, 50–1, 52, 61
Stoicism
6, 44, 45, 51, 52
pig, see sheep vs pig
Pluto
64, 65, 66 n. 6, 69
poetic rivalry
10, 22
political unrest
55–6, 69–70
politics/politicians
2, 5, 6, 7, 8–10, 11, 13, 22, 27, 28, 29, 31, 38–41, 55–6, 62–3, 66, 67–70
Polydoros
17
Polyphemos
59, 65
Poseidon
17 n. 86, 48, 65
poverty/beggary
4, 7 n. 5, 12–13, 21, 31, 34–7, 44, 51, 56, 58–60, 64, 76, 78, 79, 82–5
personified/deified (Penia)
76, 82, 85
Priam
20, 64 n. 85
proverbs
4, 14, 23, 52, 59, 60, 61–3, 65, 82 n. 75, 85
prytanis (and cognates)
3, 6, 22, 31, 40, 66–73
puns
5, 21, 26, 27, 35, 36, 37, 38 n. 41, 39, 40, 69, 71, 72
Pythagoras
45, 50, 52, 61, 76
‘rags to riches’ motif
12–13, 27, 74 n. 4
Red Sea
72
Rhadamanthys
65
riddles
13–14
Rumour (Pheme)
46–7
Sarapis
12 n. 48, 36
Sarpedon
17, 18
Sarmates
6, 66–73
second-person addresses
5, 24, 26, 27
semiotics
54–65
sex
19, 24, 26, 27, 32, 38 n. 41, 40, 75–6, 77–8, 80–1, 84
sheep vs pig
52, 61–2
silence
34, 45, 50
simile
6, 54, 58–60, 65
Skinepoïs
2, 3, 8, 22, 28, 56, 66
skōmma/skōptein
23, 24, 26
slaves/slavery
3, 11, 53, 59, 60, 65, 82–5
snake
4, 17 n. 86, 52, 61–2
soul
12 n. 45, 18, 35–6, 42 n. 4, 45, 61
surrealism
27, 29
symposium
19 n. 99, 23–4, 75, 77, 79–80
Tantalos
64, 76 n. 18
teacher
4, 34, 36, 37, 70, 82, 85
tears
40, 41, 49, 63, 68–9
Telemachos
75
Theon
36, 37, 48
titles in anthologies
1, 2, 3, 8, 10, 13, 14–15, 24–5, 26, 30–1, 35 n. 29, 57, 66 n. 3, 67, 81, 83
tomb
3, 9–10, 14, 36, 64, 77–8
topicality
2–3, 5, 8, 27–8, 29, 66
Triphis
2, 22, 28, 57, 64, 65, 66 n. 6, 68
Tyche (Fortune)
14–16, 31, 34–5, 39, 43, 48, 50–1, 54, 65
Underworld, see Hades
wine/drinking
4, 7–8, 14, 19 n. 99, 31 n. 9, 59, 60, 65, 75–6, 77, 79–80, 83, 85
wine drawn off
7–8, 60, 65
war:
literal
8, 10, 17–18, 23, 33–6, 67
metaphorical
17–18, 26, 33–6, 83
death on the battlefield
17–18, 75
wealth/the rich
12–13, 34–5, 37, 39, 44, 51, 59, 60, 68, 69 n. 29, 74–80, 82–5
deified/personified (Ploutos)
69, 76, 79–80
women:
mockery of wives
25, 32–5, 37, 56
of women
26, 31–4
of old women
25, 26, 81
‘dog-woman’
55–6
intercourse with, see sex
worldly wisdom
6, 44, 53
Zeus
9, 19, 22, 27, 32, 33, 35–6, 37, 47 n. 43, 55, 63, 64, 65, 80–1