Index
Academy
64, 314, 326–327, 362
Achilles
31, 197, 203, 206, 208, 216, 232
Achilles the grammarian
85–86, 90
Adultery/unfaithful husbands
418, 421, 425, 426–8, 431–2
Aegean Sea
67, 237, 250, 253, 393, 377, 404
Aeschylus
7, 117, 128, 199, 200, 201, 202, 204, 205, 208, 209, 212, 215, 216, 217, 338, 446
Aesop
374
Aëtius
7, 20, 50, 85, 110, 221–222, 224–225, 227–228, 230, 261–262, 386, 396, 401, 402, 404, 410
Agathemerus
31, 39
Alcaeus
116, 374, 376, 446, 448–452
Alcmaeon of Croton
76, 187, 339
Alcman
376
Alexander of Aphrodisias
295, 305, 397, 409
Anacreon
374, 376, 451
Analogy and analogies
5–7, 16, 20–21, 27–29, 51–58, 63, 66, 69, 74–101, 109, 110, 117–120, 134–135, 136, 140, 144–145, 150–159, 165–191, 207, 236, 313, 316, 317, 374, 380, 397, 401, 405, 411
Anaxagoras of Clazomenae
6, 7, 9, 64, 69, 70, 74, 77–81, 82–83, 85, 89, 90, 92, 98, 99, 125, 165, 166, 170–179, 180–183, 186, 189–190, 234, 319, 322–323, 336–341, 348–350, 392, 399, 401, 402, 403, 404, 445, 448
Anaximander
5, 15–45, 50, 58, 63, 66, 69, 72–73, 74–77, 78–83, 84–93, 95, 97, 99, 101, 108–111, 121, 126, 127, 132–133, 134–135, 149, 181, 221–222, 224–225, 228, 261–262, 313, 331, 349, 397, 409–410, 425–426, 439, 442, 444, 445, 446, 447
Anaximenes
5, 7, 15, 17, 20, 36, 37, 45, 50, 51–57, 58, 63, 74, 76, 83, 94–96, 108, 110, 179–181, 221–262, 393, 399, 401–404, 410, 439, 444
Andron of Ephesus
406
Antikythera mechanism
144, 148–150, 160
Antipater
237
Apeiron
16, 21–22, 28, 36–37, 63, 125–126, 132–135
Apollo
64, 65, 73, 377, 384, 389, 405
Apollonia Pontica
66, 72–73, 380, 447
Apollonius Rhodius
43, 84, 131
Apuleius
152, 394, 396, 398
Aratus
382–383
Archaic period
4, 9, 10, 23–37, 49, 67–68, 73, 85–86, 88–89, 92, 110, 143, 166, 211, 222, 226, 230–236, 250, 252, 255–262, 270, 290–294, 330–334, 338, 378–379, 388, 441, 442, 444, 453
Archaic poets
93, 270, 443, 445–446, 448, 452, 453
Archelaus
77, 90, 91–93, 97, 99
Archilochus
376, 445–446
Archimedes
6, 145–9, 277, 288
Archytas of Tarentum
268, 275, 278, 279–289, 292
Aristophanes
47, 68, 81, 88, 96–100, 114, 116, 117, 127, 242, 283, 319, 373, 376, 389–390, 439
Aristotle
3, 4, 6–7, 8, 10, 16–19, 21–22, 28, 30, 31–37, 46, 48, 50–51, 58, 63–66, 68–72, 74, 76–78, 80, 82, 83, 86, 94–95, 98, 101, 110, 119, 121, 122–123, 126, 127, 132, 135, 151–152, 156, 157–159, 165–166, 168, 170–173, 175, 177, 178–182, 183, 187, 190, 196, 199, 206, 210, 214, 217, 226, 228, 229–230, 232, 234, 255, 262, 289, 293–295, 301, 316–317, 327, 336, 342, 359, 363, 365, 373–374, 376, 377, 378, 390, 397, 398–405, 406–410, 418–423, 425–426, 431, 438–439
Arithmetic
8, 268, 272–296, 297, 302
Aspasia
420
Athenaeus
385, 415, 450, 451
Athens
63–64, 177, 209, 210, 244, 275, 321–322, 326, 336, 380, 455, 448
Atlantis
315–316
Audience, intended
28, 57, 154, 166–171, 177–178, 182, 186–190, 317, 322, 323, 330–331, 340, 349, 368, 417–418, 440, 448–449, 451–455
“Oral teaching” and “Orality and oral tradition”
Autolycus
260
Babylon, Babylonia
18, 39–40, 384, 405, 421
Bacchylides
124, 126, 128, 201
Black Sea
380–381, 447
Books and book rolls
19, 21, 24, 35, 44, 80–81, 313–328, 334, 361, 392
“Writing and written texts”
Calculation (logistikē)
272, 273–275, 281, 283, 285, 288, 292, 297
Callimachus
67, 271, 375, 382–383, 393
Chronology
178, 278, 341, 398, 406, 416, 442, 444–447
Cicero
39, 146–150, 152, 160
Clement
19, 336
Cleomedes
86, 257, 258
Clepsydra
6–7, 165–191, 208
Clocks and clockworks
144–145, 147–148, 155, 160, 165, 207
Coins and coinage
1, 4, 7–8, 15, 20–21, 45–49, 50, 57–58, 111, 195–219, 422, 453
Colonies and colonization
5, 63–73, 100–101, 382
Colophon
64, 203, 205, 442–443
Column-drum
4, 15, 23, 25–26, 30, 33–35, 39, 42, 111, 138
Compass
268, 271, 297, 388–393, 397
Competition
444, 448–453
Cosmos
4, 5–6, 7, 15, 19, 21, 26–28, 30–31, 35–36, 58, 64, 66, 71, 73, 75–76, 81–82, 90, 92, 97–98, 100, 108, 111, 118–123, 128–130, 132–135, 139–141, 144–150, 152, 154, 156, 159, 160, 217–218, 221–222, 238, 243, 249, 255, 258, 260, 363, 409, 428
Craftsmen (demiourgoi) and artisanal knowledge
10, 19–20, 51, 71, 75–77, 82, 100–101, 111, 135, 216, 318, 380
“techne” and “Technology”
Demeter
25, 26, 237–238
Democritus
63, 65, 67, 69, 74, 77–78, 82–83, 92, 110, 167, 179–181, 317–318, 326, 401–404, 444, 445
Derveni papyrus
99, 125, 320
Diagonal (of the square)
268–303
Diamond square (as woven pattern)
298–303
Dicaearchus
379, 415
Didyma and Didymaion
25, 28, 30, 33–34, 113
Diodorus Siculus
82, 386, 389
Diogenes Laertius
5, 31, 35, 37, 38, 39, 67, 70, 74, 94, 99, 108, 122, 126, 133, 173, 187, 206, 227–228, 232, 255, 257, 272, 314, 316, 320, 328, 336, 341, 375, 380, 381, 385, 387, 393–395, 406, 410, 438, 445, 446
Diogenes of Apollonia
70, 92, 97
Dioskouri
128, 133
Diotima
322, 420
Doubling the square
267–292
Earth, including earthquakes
7, 15, 24–35, 39, 50–51, 68–71, 78–79, 81–84, 86, 90–93, 96, 100, 110–111, 121, 122–123, 129, 140, 147–148, 178–182, 197, 222–236, 255–262, 337, 344, 358, 373–374, 396, 398–411, 421, 434–435, 439
Egypt
2, 31, 33, 67, 127, 152, 240, 244, 381–390, 405, 443, 447
Elea
276, 443, 453
Eleatics
3, 77, 337, 342, 438
Empedocles
6–7, 69, 76–77, 93, 100, 130, 133, 165–166, 170–172, 173, 175, 182–189, 190, 330, 341, 439, 445
Empolion
33–34, 39
Ephesus
24–25, 30–36, 48, 51, 67, 95, 113, 389, 405–406, 448
Euclid
268, 272, 275, 277, 282–283, 289–291, 294, 305, 390–392, 394, 395
Eudemus of Rhodes
19, 68, 275, 373–374, 385–386, 390–394, 409
Eudoxus
396
Euripides
85, 128, 196, 201, 203, 207–208, 375, 451
Eusebius
111, 225–232, 406
Eutocius
43, 288
Ezekiel
405
Felt cap
227–231
Geometry
101, 109, 256, 267–279, 285–305
Gnomon, invention and use of
4, 15, 20, 37–45, 50, 57–58, 110, 302
Gomphoi (joints)
113–116, 130–131, 136–138
Gorgias of Leontini
342, 454
Gregory of Nysa
150
Harmonia/harmony
71, 76, 92, 420, 422, 425–427, 430–433
Harpagus
72–73, 442
Hecataeus of Miletus
339, 349, 405, 445
Heraclitus
74–77, 81–82, 85–86, 95–100, 108, 121, 126, 132–133, 365, 373, 438–439, 454–455
Hero of Alexandria
9, 151, 165, 171, 174–175, 186, 277
Herodotus
64, 68, 128, 197, 238, 320, 338–340, 373–374, 375, 380, 384–386, 390, 394
Hesiod
24–27, 39, 64, 67, 87, 101, 125, 188, 195–198, 203, 232, 238, 269, 338, 347, 376–380, 383, 387, 392, 438, 445, 449, 452–453
Hippasus of Metapontus
17, 95, 99
Hippias of Elis
19, 70, 374, 407, 454
Hippo (Hippon)
81, 97–100, 399–404, 407–410
Hippocrates of Chios
19, 268, 288, 394
Hippocrates of Cos
69–70, 88, 97–98, 187
Hippolytus
26, 33, 51, 91, 94, 96, 98, 111, 227–232, 257, 407
Homer
7, 24, 26–27, 31, 39, 74, 93, 110, 116, 125, 128, 133, 141, 143, 173, 188, 195–200, 205, 232, 238–239, 259, 269, 338, 347, 375–377, 380, 381, 383, 393, 400, 405, 438, 443, 445, 449, 452–453
Horizon
229–230, 258, 396–398
Iamblichus
283, 289, 302, 415, 426
Ibycus of Rhegium
377
Incommensurability
8, 268, 274–279, 283, 285, 287–289
Infidelity
426, 428–9
Ionia, Ionian
5, 10, 11, 15, 20, 25, 30, 33, 48–49, 57–58, 63–107, 113, 205, 209, 330–331, 287, 334, 336, 348, 349, 375, 380, 411, 439, 441–447
Knowledge
8, 10, 44, 64, 68, 101, 117, 120, 123, 125, 127, 140–141, 168, 186–187, 203, 272, 275, 278, 280, 281, 298, 303–304, 330–335, 345, 346, 348–349, 360–361, 365, 431, 439, 441–442
“Sophia”
Leucippus. see “Democritus”
Lid
179–182
Literacy
332–334, 366
“Orality and oral tradition”
Looms
268–275, 290, 297, 303, 435
“Weaving”
Magna Graecia
63, 444
Marriage and Family
426–433
“Masters of Truth”
363, 452
Metallurgy and metal working
5, 66, 73, 76, 87, 92–93, 101
Melissus
336, 339, 341–350
Metadiscourse
9, 330–355
Meton of Athens
389, 393
Milesian school
64–67, 71–73
Miletus
10, 20, 28–30, 39, 45–51, 63–66, 67, 72–73, 75, 82, 96, 101, 240, 252, 255, 331, 349, 373, 375, 380–381, 385, 388–390, 398, 447
Mills and Milling
223, 237–262
Millstones
222–223, 236–243, 246–247, 249, 260
Modules and Modularity
4, 19–62, 110–114
Monism
4–5, 15–62, 343
Mortar and pestle
238–239, 243, 249
Navigation
1, 63, 70, 74, 127, 374, 380–381, 393, 410–411
“Steersman/helmsman”
Nietzsche, F.
21, 37, 439, 441
Nikostrate
418, 426, 430–431
Number
8, 23–24, 26–29, 81, 111, 213–214, 239, 268–305
Oral teaching and communication
2, 9, 10, 177, 316, 318, 321, 323, 324, 325, 326, 330–333, 348–349, 356–357, 359, 393, 440
Orality and oral tradition
19, 332, 338, 431
“Literacy”
Olbia
380
Parmenides
5, 69, 77, 108, 122, 126, 213, 215, 320–325, 330, 338–339, 342, 345, 363, 365, 396, 402–404, 419, 443, 444, 451
Patronage
10, 362, 367, 445, 448–453
Pebbles (Psēphoi)
83, 110, 167, 282–283, 291–292, 295, 297–302
Performance of texts
177, 199–220, 323, 326, 333–335, 349
“Symposia”
Peri physeos (genre)
330–31, 335, 341, 348
Pericles
64, 206, 326, 445, 448
Periktione I
416, 418, 422–4, 426–429
Periktione II
416
Phaeacian ships
108, 116, 120, 125–133
Pherecydes
35, 331, 405–406, 444, 446
Phintys of Sparta
416, 418–19, 424–5, 427–8, 433–5
Philoponus
258, 259
Phocus of Samos
375, 393, 406
Pindar
24, 117, 123, 126, 127, 199, 446, 448, 451–452, 458
Plato
5, 7, 8, 10, 64–66, 70, 71, 75, 77–78, 83, 95, 108, 111, 116–118, 120–121, 123, 126–134, 138–139, 195, 196, 198, 202, 203, 204, 206, 210, 211–218, 268, 275–288, 301, 304, 305, 313–316, 319–326, 334, 363, 365, 373–375, 387, 403–404, 406, 419, 423, 438, 441
Pliny (the Elder)
24–27, 38, 389, 405
Poetry
26–27, 93, 116, 175, 187, 188, 203, 237, 322–323, 328, 330, 331, 338, 339, 378, 385, 393, 439–440, 443, 445, 447–453
“Prose” and “Writing and written texts”
Polycrates of Samos
384
Polymathy
64, 334, 439, 454
Porphyry
327, 406
Poseidon
128, 133, 196, 316, 388
Posidonius
86, 145–149, 257
Proclus
145, 150, 154–159, 275, 281, 289, 390–394
Prose
1, 9, 11, 21, 24, 35, 69, 80–81, 85, 205, 318, 322–323, 330–355, 360, 393, 439, 444–447, 453
“Poetry” and “Writing and written texts”
Protagoras
319, 321–325, 441, 445, 448, 453–454
Ps.-Plutarch
25, 28, 38, 51, 84, 100, 224–227, 261, 293
Publication
313, 321–327, 361, 446, 447
“Writing and written texts”
Pythagoras and Pythagoreans
10, 63–65, 67, 71, 80, 99–100, 172, 203, 275, 277, 282–283, 287, 289–296, 302, 410, 415–437
Qusṭā Ibn Lūqā
85–86, 225–227, 262
Respiration
20, 93, 172, 175, 183–189
Rhodes
149, 384–385
Saddle-quern
239–240, 242–244, 246–247, 249, 254
Safety
108, 116, 120, 124–125, 127–128, 130–133, 140
Samos
24, 25, 30, 33, 35, 38, 48, 113, 385, 388, 389, 404–406, 448
Sappho
200, 376–377
Scrolls
313–314, 320–321, 332–333, 335, 348–349
Seamanship
5, 108–141
‘Navigation’
Sea trade
2, 5, 46–48, 63–67, 100, 381, 386, 453
Self-promotion
450, 451–455
“Sound bites”
Seneca
68–70, 400–404
Sextus Empiricus
83, 97–98, 100, 110, 147, 318, 409
Simonides
446, 448, 449, 453
Simplicius
20–22, 28, 50, 57, 79–80, 83, 134, 153, 158, 165, 171, 180, 336–337, 341–342, 402, 407, 410
Slaves and slavery
65, 165, 206, 254, 319, 381, 417–418, 420, 425–428, 431
Socrates
8, 10, 63, 96–97, 99–100, 117, 120–121, 130, 133, 177, 213–214, 276–287, 292, 297–298, 301, 313, 320–327, 336, 389, 438, 439, 454
Solon of Athens
316, 374, 379, 385, 411, 446, 451
Sophia (wisdom)
10, 65, 68, 120, 152, 187, 202, 288, 297, 322, 356, 359, 366, 373–387, 415
“Knowledge”
Sophists
11, 99, 215, 287, 317–319, 322, 334, 365, 374, 439, 441, 445, 448, 453–455
Sophocles
116, 118, 124, 127, 345
Sound-bites
318–319, 322, 324, 328
“Self-promotion”
Steersman/helmsman (kubernêtês)
5, 123–124, 127–129, 378
“Navigation”
Stobaeus
84, 100, 225–232, 257, 397, 410, 415
Stoics and Stoicism
64, 85, 152, 156, 317, 327, 365, 418
Strabo
31, 39, 70, 82, 91, 94, 383, 396
Sun, its nature and movement
7, 15, 20, 24, 26, 28–30, 36, 41–44, 64–65, 69, 70, 76, 81, 83, 84–92, 97, 146, 147–149, 201, 222–223, 226–236, 238, 243, 255–258, 262, 337, 381, 388, 394, 396–398, 409
Symposia
128, 175, 177, 449–450, 454
Synesius of Cyrene
145, 152–155
Syracuse
443–444, 446
Techne
75, 331–332
Technology
1, 4, 5, 8, 108–111, 132, 135–138, 140–141, 143–144, 152, 195, 210, 268, 297, 303, 305, 332, 385
Thales
1, 3, 4, 10, 15, 17–19, 22–23, 36, 37–45, 48, 50, 57, 58, 63, 67–71, 110, 118, 125, 181, 255, 268, 272, 291, 331, 373–414, 444, 447
Terpander
126
Textiles
5, 15, 20, 51, 57, 96, 101, 110, 269–271, 273, 298, 302–305
Theodoretus
128, 221–225, 233, 236–237, 249, 255, 257–258, 260–262
Theodorus (architect)
24, 35, 388–389
Theodorus (correspondent with Proclus)
145, 154–8
Theodorus (mathematician)
268, 276, 278, 284, 320, 328
Theophrastus
20, 21–22, 50, 57, 77–83, 189, 228, 327, 373–374, 401, 407–410
Theano I
415–416, 418
Theano II
416–21, 425–6, 428, 429–32
Theognis
117, 118, 128, 200, 207–208, 376, 446, 451
Theon
154, 283, 302, 387
Thrasyllus
317
Timon of Phlius
375, 438–439
Travel
1, 11, 67, 317, 322, 326, 334, 381, 386, 387, 440, 443–444, 446–448, 452, 454
Trigger-release mechanism
6, 144–6, 150–2, 157, 159
Ursa Major
67, 382–384
Ursa Minor
375, 382–384, 387, 398
Vitruvius
23–25, 27, 35, 110, 237, 260
Void
7, 172–178, 181, 188–189, 190, 343
Vortex
76–78, 82–83, 90–92, 96, 99, 234–235
Watermill. see Mills and Milling
Wax tablets
31, 268, 313–314
“Writing”
Wealth
5, 322, 358, 380, 417–419, 422–5, 431
Weaving
8, 26, 58, 267–309
“Looms”
Windmills. see Mills and Milling
Wineskins
172–178
Wisdom. see “Sophia’’; also “Knowledge”
Withholding of doctrines
454
Writing and written texts
1–2, 8–9, 11, 21, 35, 87, 188, 208, 244, 303, 313–328, 330–336, 341, 346, 348–349, 356–361, 363, 408, 410, 416–419, 447, 452–454
“Publication” and “Wax tablets”
Xenophanes
7, 11, 64, 70–71, 78, 110, 203–205, 212, 217, 236, 318, 330, 334, 373, 402–404, 408–410, 438–459
Zeus
64, 124–126, 128, 133, 152, 195–196, 201–205, 214, 217, 269