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    The Story of Civilization

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    Bicuriges, 471*

      Black (Euxine) Sea (anc. Pontus Euxinus), 112, 157, 194, 217, 232, 256-257, 275, 291, 329, 418, 480, 483, 516, 517, 518, 520, 528, 629, 630

      Black Stone of Pessinus, 513

      Blandina, Gallic Christian martyr (?-177), 649

      Blissful Groves, 241

      Blossius, Caius, Greek philosopher (fl. 2nd century B.C..), 113, 516

      Blue Glass Vase, 347

      Boadicea or Boudicca, Queen of the Iceni in Britain (?-6i), 476

      Boccaccio, Giovanni, Italian novelist (1313-1375). 258

      Boeotia, 310, 483

      Bohemia, 406, 431, 432

      Boii, 49

      Boileau-Despréaux, Nicolas, French poet, satirist, and critic (1636-1711), 249*

      Boissier, Marie Louis Gaston, French historian, critic, and archaeologist (1823-1908), 441

      Bolingbroke, Henry Saint-John, Viscount, English statesman and political writer (1678-1751), 553

      Bologna (anc. Felsina, later Bononia), 5, 11, 78, 455

      Bona Dea, 59, (feast of) 65, 172

      books, 158, 234, 267, 269, 333, 346

      bookshops, 234, 342

      Bordeaux (anc. Burdigala), 324, 470, 473

      Borghese Gladiator, 453

      Borysthenes (Dnieper), 521

      Boscoreale, 346, 459

      Bosporus, kingdom of, 219, 413, 629

      Bosporus (strait), 483, 518-519

      Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne, French Bishop of Meaux, and pulpit orator (1627-1704), 662, 663

      Boston Museum, 259

      Bostra (Basra), 508, 535, 602

      Botticelli, Sandro (Alessandro Filipepi), Italian painter (1447?-1510), 354

      Boulogne (anc. Gesoriacum), 324, 653

      bourgeoisie, 88, 89, 116, 171, 286, 343, 633

      Bourges, see Avaricum

      boxing, in Etruria, 7;

      in Rome, 90, 99, 377, 382

      Boy, 351

      Brahman, 610

      Brahmans, 526, 536, 608

      Brahmanism, 537

      Bramante, Donato d’Agnolo, Italian architect and painter (1444-1514), 661

      bread, see grain

      Brenner Pass, 454, 480

      Brevity of Life, On the (Seneca), 302

      bridges, 17, 77, 176, 266-267, 324, 326, 336, 410, 411, 455, 470, 473, 474, 627, 671

      Briseis, 354

      Britain, 40, 176, 234, 270-271, 288, 291, 302, 322, 324, 326, 327, 329, 366, 413, 417, 428, 470, 471, 472, 475-477, 479, 602, 620, 622, 633, 638, 641, 651, 669

      Britanni, 475

      Britannicus, son cf Claudius and Messalina (42-55), 273-275

      British Empire, 406

      British Museum, 347, 350, 351

      Britons, 176

      Bronze, Age of, 471

      bronzework, 9-10, 18, 82, 227, 346, 349-351, 359, 420, 443, 457, 459-460, 469, 510

      brothels, see prostitution

      Brothers Pettius, banking firm, 332

      Brumalia, 512

      Brundisium (Brindisi), 78, 97, 125, 170, 173, 183, 184, 200, 205, 239, 244, 325, 326, 410, 455, 602

      Bruttians, 35, 37, 51

      Bruttium, 53

      Brutus, Decimus Junius, commander (?-43 B.C..), 177, 197, 200, 201

      Brutus, Lucius Junius (fl. 6th century B.C..), consul, 16, 17, 196, 197

      Brutus, Marcus Junius, politician (85-42 B.C..), 130, 161, 185-186, 189, 194, 196-204, 211, 244, 426, 448, 482, 484, 513, 583

      Brutus (in Martial), 318

      Bubastis, 498

      Budapest, 480

      Buddhism, 537, 559

      building materials, 356-357, 420, 477, 533, 635

      building trades, 322

      Bulgaria, 480

      bullfights, in Etruria, 6;

      in Crete and Thes-saly, 384;

      in Rome, 385

      bureaucracy, 191, 215, 220, 270-271, 275, 409, 416, 448, 498, 640, 642-645, 665, 668

      Burgundy, 473

      Burrus, prefect of the Praetorian Guard (fl. ist century), 273, 275, 276

      Bury, John Bagnell, Irish historian (1861-1927), 273*

      business, see trade

      buttress, 635, 661

      Byblus, 39, 534

      Byron, George Gordon, sixth Baron, English poet (1788-1824), 249*

      Byrsa, 41, 465

      Byzantine Empire, 419, 641

      Byzantinism, 641

      C

      Cabala, 538

      Cabillonum (Chalon-sur-Saône), 474

      Cádiz, see Gades

      Cadmea, 483

      Caecilius (in Octavius, by Minucius Felix), 611

      Caecilius Statius, comic dramatist (?-168 B.C..), 101

      Caelian hill, 12*, 340, 361

      Caelius, Marcus Caius Rufus, orator (fl. 1st century B.C..), 135, 155, 184, 188-189

      Caenis, mistress of Vespasian (ist century), 288

      Caepiones, Roman family, 76

      Caere (Cervetri), 7, 8, 10, 11, 121

      Caesar, Caius Julius, Roman general, statesman, and historian (100-44 B.C..), 3, 23, 27, 31, 34, 48, 66, 70, 73, 102, 116, 118, 119, 123, 128, 129, 133, 134, 136, 139, 140, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 155, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 165, 166, 167-202, 204, 205, 208, 211, 212, 213, 219, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 231, 235, 242, 256, 260, 270, 271, 283, 291, 293, 296, 303, 312, 319, 323, 324, 326, 329, 330, 335, 340, 341, 346, 349, 350, 354, 356, 360, 361, 364, 365, 372, 383, 385, 386, 391, 392, 400, 412, 414, 419, 431, 448, 456, 457, 462, 465, 466, 469, 471-476, 482, 487, 500, 508, 514, 516, 523, 528, 557*, 562, 638, 641, 654

      Caesarea (Kaisaria), 508, 534, 535, 544, 577, 586, 615, 662

      Caesarea (Cherchel), 466

      Caesarean birth, 167

      Caesarea Philippi, or Paneas (Banias), 545, 569

      Caesarion, Egyptian prince, son of Cleopatra 47-30 B.C..), 188, 189, 195, 206, 208

      Caesarodunum (Tours), 474

      Caesars, the, 175, 362, 460, 593

      Caesonia, fourth wife of Caligula (?-41 A.D.), 266, 268

      Caiaphas, Jewish high priest (fl. 18-36), 571

      Cairo, 350

      Caius Caesar, grandson of Augustus (?-4 A.D.), 230-231, 473

      Calagurris (Calahorra), 313

      Caledonia, see Scotland calendar, Roman, 66-67, 75, 193;

      Julian, 193;

      Druidic, 472

      Calidus, Quintus, politician (fl. 1st century B.C..), 129

      Caligula (Caius Caesar Germanicus), Roman emperor (12-41), 264-268, 269, 270, 273, 279, 293, 300, 301, 304, 344, 345, 365*, 378, 380, 384, 388, 390, 434, 456, 466, 482, 500, 501, 543

      Callimachus, Greek grammarian and poet (320-?—240-? B.C..), 155, 158, 636

      Callistus, Roman Pope (reigned 217-222), 617-618

      Callistus, secretary of Claudius (fl. 1st century), 270

      Calpurnia, last wife of Caesar (1st century B.C..), 172, 189, 195, 197, 198

      Calpurnia, third wife of Pliny the Younger (1st-2nd centuries), 440

      Calvin, John, French Protestant reformer at Geneva (1509-1564), 592

      Calvus, Licinius, poet (fl. 1st century B.C..), 146, 161, 174

      cameos, 346

      Camillus, Marcus Furius, general and patrician leader (?-365 B.C..), 24, 36, 68, 120

      Campagna di Roma, 320, 631, 666

      Campania, 11, 18, 37, 62, 74, 77, 171, 213, 231, 265, 303, 326, 328, 339, 346, 455-456, 608

      Campus Martius, see Field of Mars Camulodunum (Colchester), 476, 477

      Canaan, 567

      canals, 77, 410, 464, 499, 500, 631

      Canary Islands, 308

      Candia, 247

      Cannae (battle of, 216 B.C..), 34, 50-51, 70, 71, 86, 93, 164

      Cannus, musician (fl. 1st century), 381

      canonization, 226

      canon law, 406, 619

      Canopus (Abukir on site of), 500

      Cantii, 476

      Canuleius, Caius, tribune (fl. 445 B.C..), 24

      Canusium (Canosa), 51

      Capernaum, 563

      capital, 90, 323, 333, 633, 668

      Capitol, 36, 52, 60, 82, 83, 169, 198, 206, 263, 280, 291, 358, 388, 419, 443

      Capitol
    , in Washington, 421

      Capitolias, 535

      Capitoline, 12*, 13, 36, 61, 81, 82, 316, 340, 341, 358

      Capitoline games, 291, 381

      Capitoline Museum, 349, 351, 443

      Cappadocia, 140, 147, 188, 357, 366, 418, 462, 490, 496, 513, 517, 520, 523, 524, 528, 578, 629, 630

      Capri (anc. Capreae), 263, 265, 344, 456

      Captivi (Plautus), 100

      Capua, 11, 37, 51, 52, 78, 116, 137, 138, 181, 194, 322, 346, 457, 546

      Caracalla (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Bassianus Caracallus), Roman emperor (188-217), 331, 375, 621-623, 632, 633, 634, 635

      Caracalla, Baths of, 375, 627, 635

      Caractacus, king of the Silures in Britain (fl. ist century), 271

      Carales (Cagliari), 464

      Career Tullianum, 404

      Care of the Hair, On the (Domitian), 289

      Caria, 513, 514, 518

      carmen saeculare, 225, 248, 380

      Carneades, Greek philosopher and orator (213-129 B.C..), 95-96, 489, 497

      Carnutes, 471*

      Carpathian Mountains, 431

      Carrara, 10, 357, 454

      Carrhae (Harran), 131, 178, 529, 623

      Carrinas Secundus, rhetorician (fl. 1st century A.D.), 267

      Carteia (Algeciras), 470

      Carthage, 25, 34, 38, 39-54, 57, 70, 76, 77, 80, 82, 85, 86, 87, 88, 91, 101, 105-108, 116, 117, 118, 192, 194, 240, 269, 326, 332, 418, 454, 465, 466, 467, 468, 469, 472, 482, 546, 603, 612, 613, 617, 633, 649, 650, 671

      Carthage, Council of, 618

      Casanova de Seingalt, Giovanni Jacopo, Italian adventurer (1725-1798), 487

      Casinum, 461

      Caspian Sea, 528

      Cassius, Avidius, general and rebel (fl. 2nd century), 428, 431

      Cassius, Spurius, consul (?-486 B.C..), 23

      Cassius Longinus, Caius, general and conspirator (?-42 B.C..), 168, 186, 194, 196-204, 211, 448

      Cassius Longinus Varus, Caius, governor (fl. ist century B.C..), 137

      Cassivelaunus, British chief (fl. 1st century B.C..), 176

      Castel Gandolfo, 11

      Castor, 35, 62

      Castor and Pollux, Temple of, 268, 358, 359

      castration, see emasculation

      catacombs, 601

      Catana (Catania), 66, 464

      Catechetical School, 613, 614

      Catholicae Ecclesiae Unitate, De (St. Cyprian), 618

      Catiline (Lucius Sergius Catilina), conspirator (108?-62 B.C..), 126, 142-144, 147, 168, 169, 170, 172, 184, 189, 202, 395

      Catiline (Sallust), 160

      Cato, Marcus Porcius (the Elder), general and patriot (234-149 B.C..), 4, 68, 69, 70, 73, 87, 88-90, 91, 92, 93, 95, 96, 97, 102-105, 106-108, 136, 160, 238, 312, 315, 370, 396, 399, 415, 454, 456, 618

      Cato, Marcus Porcius, son of Cato Uticensis (?-42 B.C..), 190, 203

      Cato Uticensis, Marcus Porcius (the Younger), philosopher and patriot (95-46 B.C..), 56, 75, 108, 131, 133, 134, 135-136, 144-145, 168, 171, 173, 174, 180, 181, 183, 186, 189-190, 195, 196, 203, 282, 296, 426

      Catoptrica (Hero), 504

      cattle raising, 104, 131, 238, 319-321, 455, 464, 478, 483, 513

      Catullus, Caius Valerius, poet (87-54 B.C..), 69, 102, 135, 154, 155-158, 174, 225, 235

      Catulus, Quintus Lutatius, aristocratic leader (fl. 1st century B.C..), 145, 146

      Caucasus, 329, 448, 517, 528

      Caudine Forks (battle of, 321 B.C..), 37

      Caunus, 518

      Celer, architect (fl. 1st century), 345

      Celer, Asinius, epicure (fl. 1st century), 376

      celibacy, 132, 134, 222-224, 237, 250, 363, 524, 526, 537, 566, 598;

      clerical, 660*

      Cellini, Benvenuto, Italian artist (1500-1571), 9, 349

      Celsus, general of Trajan (?-118), 414

      Celsus, Antichristian philosopher (fl. 2nd century), 559, 596, 606-607, 615, 616, 647

      Celsus, Aurelius Cornelius, writer on science (fl. 1st century), 295, 308, 313

      Celtiberians, 87

      Celtic languages, 73, 477

      Celts, 36, 49, 118-120, 126, 174-177, 235, 468, 471, 472, 475, 477

      cena, 70

      Cenabum (Orleans), 177, 474

      Cena Trimalchionis, 297-298

      censors, 24, 28, 29, 191, 214-215, 270, 272, 286, 290

      censorship, 74, 99, 229, 300

      census, 193, 214, 333, 463, 558

      central heating, 343, 344, 477, 671

      Centum Cellae (Civita Vecchia), 410, 461

      ceramics, Etruscan, 9;

      Carthaginian, 42;

      Roman, 77, 322-323, 336, 346-347, 454, 473, 474, 477, 498

      Cerberus, 389

      Ceres, 59, 62, 84, 164, 381

      Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, Spanish novelist (1547-1616), 637

      Cethegus, Caius Cornelius, conspirator (?-64 B.C..), 143-144

      Cévennes mountains (anc. Cebenna), 176

      Ceylon, 329, 406

      Chaerea, Caius Cassius, tribune of Praetorian Guard (?-4i A.D.), 268

      Chaeremon, Greek Stoic philosopher (fl. 1st century), 274

      Chaeronea, 124, 483, 484

      Chalcedon (Kadiköi), 133, 629

      Chalcis, 73, 483

      Chaldaic, 537

      Chaldea, 64

      Châlons-sur-Marne, 638, 670

      Champollion, Jean François, French Egyptologist (1790-1832), 5

      Chance, 349

      Chariclea, 636-637

      chariot races, in Etruria, 7;

      in Rome, 265, 267, 274, 278-279, 377, 382-383, 447, 465

      charity, 71

      Charmion, Egyptian handmaiden of Cleopatra (?-3o B.C..), 208

      Charmis of Marseilles, physician in Rome (fl. 1st century), 313

      charms, 60, 64, 388

      Charon, 387, 496-497

      Charondas, Sicilian lawgiver (ca. 500 B.C..), 32

      Chartres, 471*

      Charybdis, 602

      Chasidim, 536-537

      Chastity, 349

      Châtelet, Marquis du, Florent-Claude (1695-?), 135

      Chatti, 291, 428, 429, 431

      Chaucer, Geoffrey, English poet (1340?-1400), 258

      Chephren, 350

      chess, 375

      Chester (anc. Deva or Devana Castra), 477

      Chichester (anc. Cissaceaster), 477

      Chimera, 9

      China, 134, 329, 529, 669

      Chinese Wall, 669

      Chiusi (anc. Clusium q.v.), 9

      Chloe, 247

      Christ, 72, 75, 154, 160, 235, 281, 347*, 390, 449, 466, 475, 493-494, 502, 509, 510, 527, 529, 535, 537, 541*, 550-619, 626, 646-664, 667

      Christianity, 63, 65, 95, 165, 307, 335, 358, 404, 405, 406, 465, 467-468, 489, 490, 493-494, 497, 510, 520, 523, 524, 527, 538, 549, 550-619, 621, 625, 626, 628, 635, 637, 646-664, 667-668, 671-672

      Christians, 281, 292, 308, 365, 366, 386, 416, 423, 442, 447, 507, 529, 554-619, 626, 646-664, 665

      Chrysoloras, Manuel, reviver of Greek in Italy (1355?-1415), 96

      Chrysopolis (Scutari), 655

      Chrysostom, Saint John, Greek father of the Church (347?-407), 494

      Church, early, 557, 558, 575, 577, 588, 591-595, 596-619, 646-664, 668

      Church, Roman Catholic, 475, 554, 592, 617-619, 671-672

      churches, 662, 663

      Cicero, Marcus Tullius, orator and man of letters (106-43 B.C..), 11, 13, 14, 32, 68, 70, 73, 82, 95, 96-97, 98, 102, 108, 115, 118, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 135, 136, 140-145, 146, 154, 160, 161-166, 167, 168, 169, 171, 172-174, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 185, 188, 189, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 108, 201, 202, 212, 216, 228, 258, 307, 308, 313, 315, 324, 325, 356, 365, 368, 378, 379, 387, 391, 393, 398, 403, 405, 415, 439, 453, 454, 456, 457, 462, 463, 464, 489, 510, 513, 514, 516, 557, 572, 587, 612, 662, 671

      Cicero, Quintus Tullius, governor, brother of M. Tullius Cicero (ca. 102-43 B.C..), 143*, 173

      Cilicia, 129, 139, 140, 167, 180, 196, 203, 204, 205, 378, 413, 500, 505, 513, 579, 629, 630

      Cimbri, 118-120, 472

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    p; Cinara, 247

      Cincian law (204 B.C..), 32, 132, 402

      Cincinnatus, Lucius Quinctius, dictator (519?-439? B.C..), 31

      Cineas, Greek philosopher (fl. 280 B.C..), 28, 37

      Cinna, Helvius, poet (?-44 B.C..), 155

      Cinna, Lucius Cornelius, dictator (?-84 B.C..), 123-125, 167, 519

      circumcision, 530, 546, 548, 559, 577, 580, 582-583, 585, 586, 587, 625

      circuses, see games

      Circus Flaminius, 82, 340, 360

      Circus Maximus, 18, 82, 280, 360-361, 382-383, 625

      Ciris, 270

      Cirta (Constantine), 105, 466

      citizenship, Roman, 25-27, 58, 99, 100, 114, 115, 116, 118, 121, 122, 126, 182, 193-194, 216, 235, 270-271, 283, 394-395, 398, 460, 462, 473, 476, 546, 586, 591, 622-623

      city-states, in Etruria, 6;

      in Greece, 6, 86, 482;

      in Latium, 11;

      Rome, 35, 81, 212;

      Tarentum, 455;

      in the Roman Empire, 460-461

      Civilis, Julius, Batavian rebel leader (fl. 71), 473

      Civil War in Rome, 122-126, 168, 169, 177, 180-208, 211, 220, 225, 252, 283-286, 293-294, 296, 301, 514, 644

      civitates, 324

      clan (gens), 56, 69

      clan council, in the early Republic, 57

      clan name (nomen,) 56-57

      Clarissa Harlowe (Richardson), 637

      classicism, 249, 258, 302, 338-339, 381, 442, 635

      class war, in Greece, 86, 87, 482;

      in Rome, 23-24, 38, 47, 51, 77, 108, 111-208, 242, 632, 633, 656, 665, 668, 669

      Claudia, first wife of Augustus (fl. 1st century B.C..), 229

      Claudia or Clodia, Vestal Virgin (3rd century B.C..), 94

      Claudian Aqueduct, 270, 340

      Claudii, Roman clan, 21, 35, 155, 172, 205, 259, 364

      Claudius I (Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus), Roman emperor (10 B.C..-A.D. 54), 216, 267, 268-275, 293, 295, 301, 302, 312, 322, 326, 336, 350, 365*, 371, 383, 384, 390, 397, 402, 410, 419, 434, 456, 466, 473, 476, 501, 543, 554

      Claudius II (Marcus Aurelius Claudius Gothi-cus), Roman emperor (214-270), 630, 638

      Claudius, Caius, naval commander (fl. 3rd century), 44

      Claudius Caecus, Appius, politician and writer (fl. 312 B.C..), 29, 32, 37, 77-78, 81

      Claudius Regillensis Sabinus, Appius, lawmaker (fl. 450 B.C..), 23-24, 29, 72

      Cleander, Praetorian prefect (?-190), 447-448

      Cleanthes, Greek Stoic philosopher (300?-220? B.C..), 584*

      Cleisthenes, Athenian statesman (fl. 510 B.C..), 15

      Clemency, On (Seneca), 302

      Clemens, Flavius, relative of Domitian (?-05), 292

      Clement I, or Clemens Romanus, Roman Pope (30?-100?), 588, 617

      Clement of Alexandria (Titus Flavius Clemens) Christian father and writer (150?-220?), 558, 610-611, 613, 614, 616

     


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