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    The Story of Civilization

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    dowry, in Etruria, 7;

      in Rome, 57, 68, 69, 89, 134, 141, 167, 223, 230, 370, 396, 440

      drainage, 81, 103, 193, 326, 410, 454, 461, 466, 473, 511, 631, 639

      drama, 74-75, 97-102, 235, 255, 269, 277, 301-302, 307, 314, 378-379, 461;

      Horace on, 249

      drawings, in Varro’s Imagines, 159

      dream analysis, 388, 485, 507, 525, 621

      “Dream of Scipio” (Cicero), 165

      Drepana (Trapani), battle in 249 B.C.., 45

      Drews, Arthur, German philosopher (1865-1935), 554

      drinking, in Etruria, 7;

      in Carthage, 41;

      under Rome, 65, 71, 88-89, 94, 123, 196, 199, 200, 204, 220, 247, 263, 267, 269, 297-298, 320, 324, 334, 342, 354, 372, 377, 408, 423, 447, 458, 512, 562, 599;

      in Gaul, 471;

      in Germany, 478;

      in Parthia, 529

      drugs, 310, 312-313, 329, 342, 505, 506-507

      Druids, 472, 473, 479

      Drunken Satyr, 459

      Drusi, Roman family, 122

      Drusilla, sister of Caligula (?-38 A.D.), 266

      Drusus, Marcus Livius, statesman (fl. 2nd century B.C..), 117, 121

      Drusus, Marcus Livius, statesman, son of preceding (?-91 B.C..), 121-122

      Drusus Caesar, son of Tiberius (?-23), 263, 264

      Drusus Senior, Nero Claudius, general, stepson of Augustus, (38-9 B.C..), 217, 229, 230, 248, 259, 261, 269, 299, 323, 371

      Dryden, John, English poet and dramatist (1631-1700), 239, 671

      Duchesne, Louis Marie Olivier, French Roman Catholic prelate and scholar (1843-1922), 658

      Dura, 602

      Dura-Europus, 512, 529

      Dürer, Albrecht, German painter and engraver (1471-1528), 580

      Duties, On (Panaetius), 97

      dyeing, 322-323, 329, 331, 342, 373, 471, 510

      Dyrrhachium (Durazzo), 184-185, 480, 482, 602

      E

      East, the, 78, 86, 94, 95, 121, 124, 125, 129, 138, 139, 147, 154, 157, 161, 170, 171, 178, 186, 188, 195, 203, 204, 206, 208, 213, 226, 251, 253, 262, 292, 320, 323, 329, 330, 331, 335, 364, 373, 378, 389, 406, 410, 413, 419, 420, 442, 455, 463, 471, 482, 507, 511-512, 524, 525, 564, 576, 603, 605, 616-617, 621, 622, 629, 630, 638, 639, 644, 651, 655, 659, 666, 670, 671

      Easter, 617, 647, 660*, 664

      Ebionim, 577

      Eboracum, see York Ebro (anc. Iberus), 47, 48, 215, 469

      Eburones, 176

      Ecbatana (Hamadan), 528

      Ecclesiastes, 540

      Ecclesiastical History (Eusebius), 649*, 663

      Ecclesiasticus, 539

      Eclogues (Virgil), 205, 236, 243

      Ecnomus (naval battle off, 256 B.C..), 44

      Eden, Garden of, 614

      Edessa (in Greece), 483

      Edessa (Urfa), 513, 602, 604, 629

      Edictum de Pretiis (Diocletian), 642-643

      Edom, 530

      education, Etruscan, 7;

      Carthaginian, 48;

      Athenian, 487-488;

      Roman, 70, 72, 75, 90, 95, 137, 141, 217, 259, 265, 314, 367-368, 424, 440, 477, 509, 511, 513, 661, 671

      education, state, 287, 368, 424, 461, 466, 476, 661, 671

      effeminacy, 132, 215, 251, 438, 442

      Egeria, 13, 63, 365*

      Egnatia, Via, 324, 482, 602

      Egypt, 5, 6, 8, 10, 71, 77, 91, 92*, 107, 159, 168, 170, 186-188, 193, 203, 204, 206, 207-208, 211, 212, 213, 216, 217, 218, 225, 233, 247, 266, 284, 301, 308, 313, 322, 323, 324, 325, 327, 329, 331, 336, 342, 347*, 349, 352, 355, 357, 359, 364-365, 366, 374, 381, 389, 390, 413, 424, 429, 431, 437, 482, 483, 484, 487, 495, 498-507, 508, 514, 523, 525, 526, 530, 532, 548, 559, 588, 595, 602, 606, 613, 623, 630, 631, 632, 633, 634, 638, 639, 641, 653, 655, 657, 658, 671

      Egyptian, 187, 630

      Egyptian Tales (Heliodorus), see Aethiopica

      Eighth Legion, 182

      Elagabal, 621, 625, 626

      Elagabalus (Marcus Varius Avitus Bassianus Aurelius Antoninus Heliogabalus), Roman emperor (205?-222), 390, 622, 623-625, 626, 639

      Elba, 6, 322

      Elbe (anc. Albis), 217, 432

      Elders (presbyteri), 579, 582, 586

      Elea, see Velia Eleusinian mysteries, 418, 487, 525

      Eleusis, 431, 487, 525, 606

      Elijah, Jewish prophet, 574

      Elis, 482

      Elizabeth, mother of John the Baptist, 560

      Elizabethan Age, 258, 510

      Elysian Fields, 84, 241

      emancipation, 57, 112, 221-222, 335, 363, 365, 384, 398, 631

      emasculation, 94, 157, 282, 200, 385, 512, 515, 523, 567, 580, 613, 614, 615, 625, 666

      embalming, 282

      Emerita (Mérida), 470

      Emerson, Ralph Waldo, American essayist, poet, and philosopher (1803-1882), 307, 367

      Emesa, 621, 623, 625, 638, 639

      emetics, 377

      emigration, 117, 118, 482, 487

      Emmaus (Kuloniyeh), 535, 573

      Empedocles, Greek philosopher (500-430? B.C..), 148, 153

      emperor-worship, see deification emphyteusis, 416

      Empire, growth of, 87, 95, 107, 108, 177-178, 206, 217-218, 248

      Emporiae, 470

      Emporium, 339, 342

      Encheiridion, of Epictetus (Arrian), 490*, 494

      Encolpius, 297-298

      Encratites, 605

      Engadi, 537

      engineering, Etruscan, 6, 18;

      Roman, 75, 81, 176, 193, 219-220, 266-267, 270, 326-328, 356, 359-361, 410, 418-421, 464, 465, 470, 473, 474, 480, 511, 635

      England, 249*, 258, 302, 346, 406, 475, 535

      English, 671

      English Channel, 176, 470, 475, 476

      engraving, 278, 346

      Enna (Castrogiovanni), 112

      Enneads (Plotinus), 608-611

      Ennius, Quintus, poet and dramatist (239-169 B.C..), 67, 97-98, 148, 155, 159, 164, 234, 241, 315, 442, 667

      Enoch, 574;

      Book of, 540, 541, 559, 564, 593

      Entellus, 382

      Epaphroditus, freedman of Nero (fl. 1st century), 284, 292, 490

      Ephesians, The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the, 587*

      Ephesus (Ayasoluk), 204, 312, 329, 417-418, 504, 513, 515, 518, 546, 577, 585, 592, 602, 603, 630

      Epicharis, conspirator (?-65), 371

      epic poetry, 74, 98, 239-244, 278, 296, 316, 317

      Epictetus, Stoic philosopher (60?-120?), 295, 301, 307, 415, 424, 425, 482, 486, 490-494, 520, 611

      Epicureanism, 95, 131, 132, 148, 154, 164, 236, 249, 304, 370, 432, 485, 489-490, 491, 496, 602, 671

      epicureanism, 68, 98, 147, 154, 215, 230, 244, 247, 253, 260, 276, 279, 282, 285, 286, 300, 304, 373, 388, 456, 487, 522, 540-541

      Epicurus, Greek philosopher (342?-270 B.C..), 95, 132, 148, 149, 153, 154*, 250, 304, 305, 307, 346, 388, 490

      Epidaurus, 62, 124, 139, 482, 487, 563

      epigram, 135, 155, 160, 174, 234, 247, 290, 295-296, 302, 316-318, 369, 389, 398, 436, 437, 509-510

      Epiphanius, Christian writer (fl. 4th century), 616

      Epirus, 37, 38, 112, 131, 184, 482

      Epistles (Horace), 248-249

      Epistolae Morales (Seneca), 304

      Epodes (Horace), 246

      equites (equestrians), 15, 21, 22, 24, 26, 27, 32, 80, 121, 126, 139, 142, 191, 286, 332-333, 363-364, 384, 433, 440, 622, 633

      Eratosthenes, Greek geometer and astronomer (276?-195? B.C..), 521

      Eretria, 483

      Ergotimus, Greek potter, 9

      Eros, 353

      Eros, 461

      erosion, 339, 487, 665

      Esdraela, 535

      espionage, Hannibal’s, 48

      Eshmun, 41, 42

      Esperanto, 671

      Esquiline, 12*, 215, 253, 312, 340, 342, 354

      essay, 241, 304, 671;

      Cicero, 163-166;

      Seneca, 302-304;

      Plutarch, 485-486

      Essay on Criticism (Pope), 249* Essenes, 537-538, 559, 560, 562, 568, 577, 597

      E
    tesian winds, 325

      ethics, of Lucretius, 148-154;

      of Zeno, 196;

      of Marcus Aurelius, 444-446;

      of Epictetus, 491-494;

      Jewish, 548, 591, 618;

      of Christ, 566-567, 602, 618, 667

      Ethiopia, 188, 217, 328, 364, 366, 500, 546

      Etna, Mt., 418

      Etruria (or Tuscia), 3-18, 35, 36, 37, 50, 51, 64, 73, 112, 113, 139, 143-144, 269, 339, 350, 440, 454, 601

      Etruscan Federation, 5-6, 17*

      Etruscans, 5-18, 35, 36, 37, 52, 122

      Etruscan style, see Tuscan style

      Euboea, 73, 310, 357, 483, 519

      eucharist, see communion Eucopion, slave, 334

      Eudoxus of Cnidus, Greek astronomer (409?-353? B.C..), 165

      Euhemerus, Greek mythologist (fl. 300 B.C..), 98

      Eumenes II, King of Pergamum (reigned 197-159 B.C..), 516

      Eunapius, Greek sophist and historian (fl. end of 4th century), 636* Eunoe, Queen of Numidia (1st century B.C..), 168

      Eunuch, The (Terence), 101

      eunuchs, 329, 334, 363, 515, 624, 640, 666

      Eunus, Sicilian slave leader (fl. 2nd century B.C..), 112

      Euphrates, Greek Stoic philosopher (?-138), 422

      Euphrates, 178, 194, 217, 414, 495, 511, 512, 513, 627

      Euripides, Athenian dramatist (480-406 B.C..), 98, 154, 178, 258, 302, 513

      Europe, 78, 86, 95, 132, 154, 166, 178, 308, 320, 322, 324, 421, 475, 478, 497, 507, 524, 583, 640, 641, 653, 655, 664, 670

      Eurydice, 94, 256

      Eusebius Pamphili, Bishop of Caesarea, ecclesiastical historian (260?-340?), 501, 592, 649*, 651, 654, 657, 659-660, 662-663

      Euxine Sea, see Black Sea evil eye, 60

      evolution, Lucretius on, 150-153

      excommunication, among Jews, 547;

      Church, 554, 605, 618

      Exodus, 567

      expansion, see Empire, growth of Ex Ponto (Ovid), 257-258

      extreme unction, 600

      F

      Fabia, third wife of Ovid (fl. 1st century), 256, 257, 258

      Fabian strategy, 50, 185

      Fabii, Roman clan, 21, 76, 255, 364

      Fabius (Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, Cunctator), general and dictator (?-203 B.C..), 50, 68

      Fabius Pictor, Caius, painter (fl. 303 B.C..), 82, 352

      Fabius Pictor, Quintus, general and historian (fl. end of 3rd century B.C..), 71, 73

      Fabricius, Pons, 327

      Fabulina, 59

      factories, 321-323, 333, 342, 477, 498, 642, 644

      fairs, 78, 328

      Faith, 358;

      Temple of, 358

      Falernian wine, 456

      family, in Etruria, 7;

      in Germany, 479;

      in early Rome, 56-59, 67, 72, 88, 91;

      in the later Republic, 134, 147;

      under the Principate, 222-225, 300, 321, 334, 348, 363-364, 366, 371, 441;

      under the monarchy, 656

      family name (cognomen), 56-57

      Fannia, wife of Helvidius Priscus (1st century), 371, 441

      Far East, 84, 529

      Farnese Bull, 634

      Farnese Hercules (Glycon), 349, 634

      Farnese Juno, 349

      Farnese Palace, 351

      Fasti (Ovid), 256-257

      Fate, 242, 304

      father, the (paterfamilias), in the Republic, 56, 57, 59, 68-69, 226;

      under the Principate and Empire, 395

      Fathers of the Church, 308, 524, 603, 611-615

      Fato, De (Cicero), 163*

      Faunus, 59, 65

      Fausta, second wife of Constantine I (4th century), 663-664

      Faustina Senior, wife of Antoninus Pius (2nd century), 423, 427, 430

      Faustina Junior, wife of Marcus Aurelius (?-175), 423, 425, 427-428, 430, 442

      Faventia (Faenze), 455

      Favorinus of Gaul, philosopher at Hadrian’s court (fl. 2nd century), 367, 415

      feasting, Etruscan, 6, 7;

      Carthaginian, 41;

      under Rome, 65-66, 68, 69, 71, 82, 88-89, 90, 132, 133, 147, 186, 190, 202, 223, 245, 266, 276, 285, 296, 297-298, 334, 335, 372, 376-377, 386, 461, 476, 515, 562, 624

      Feast of Tabernacles, 65

      Febris, 75

      februa, 67

      Felix, Antonius, procurator of Judea (fl. 1st century A.D.), 271, 543, 586

      Feralia, 65

      feriae (holy days), 65

      Ferrara (anc. Forum Alieni), 454

      Ferrero, Guglielmo, Italian historian (b. 1872), 273*

      fertility, 56, 59, 60, 61, 65, 66, 67, 159, 193, 212, 221-222, 224-225, 232, 363-366, 431, 449, 479, 480-481, 515, 525, 545, 666

      fertilizers, 76, 320-321

      festivals, 59, 63, 65-67, 71, 74, 76, 98, 223, 225-226, 239, 256, 334, 335, 347, 377-379, 381, 390, 423, 461, 484, 512, 515, 523, 542-543, 579, 598, 672

      Festus, procurator of Judea (fl. 62), 543, 586

      fetiales, 63

      fetishism, 60

      feudalism, 631*

      Fidenae (Castel Giubileo), 11

      Field of Mars, 65, 128, 143, 173, 192, 232, 280, 291, 308, 340, 348, 360, 362, 365, 390

      Figaro, 101

      Fimbria, Caius Flavius, politician and general (?-84B.C..), 124-125

      finance, 190, 192-193, 330-332, 336, 411

      Finibus, De (Cicero), 163*, 165

      fire brigade, Crassus’, 131

      first name (praenomen), 56-57

      First Principles (Origen), see Peri Archon

      fisci 221*

      fiscus 221-222

      fishing, 321, 336, 423, 470, 483, 515, 520, 563, 573

      Flaccus, Avillius, governor (fl. 1st century), 500-501

      Flaccus, Lucius Valerius, consul (?-86 B.C..), 124

      Flaccus, Valerius, senator (fl. 3rd century B.C..), 102

      flaggelation, 354

      flamines, 63

      Flaminian Way, 78, 455

      Flaminius, Caius, political leader (?-217 B.C..), 47, 49, 78, 340

      Flaminius, Titus Quinctius, general (fl. 200 B.C..), 85, 96, 382

      Flanders, 174

      Flaubert, Gustave, French novelist (1821-1880), 239

      Flaviales, 291-292

      Flavian Amphitheater, see Colosseum

      Flavian Dynasty, 285-293, 351, 407, 412, 442

      fleet, see navy

      floods, 159, 193, 339, 365, 429, 649

      Flora (goddess), 65, 381

      Flora, courtesan (fl. 1st century B.C..), 138-139

      Floralia, 65, 378, 381

      Florence (anc. Florentia), 9, 348*, 454

      Florus, Lucius Annaeus, historian (fl. 1st century), 473

      Florus, procurator of Judea (fl. 1st century), 543-544

      flute, 379-381

      Fontana dei Trevi, 327*

      food, in the Roman army, 34;

      in Carthage, 40, 41;

      under Rome, 38, 54, 70-71, 76, 88-89, 133, 215, 227, 245, 247, 298, 320-321, 328-330, 373, 376-377, 636

      forgery, in art, 342

      Formiae (Formia), 162, 202

      Fornax, 59

      Forth, 476;

      Firth of, 476

      Fortuna Primigenia, Temple of, 454

      Fortuna Virilis, Temple of, 358

      Fortune (Fortuna), 358, 388, 424, 655

      Fortune, Temple of, 340, 358

      fortunetelling, see soothsaying

      Forum, 23, 24, 27, 47, 64, 66, 72, 79, 84, 89, 115, 123, 125, 126, 136, 141, 146, 160, 161, 166, 169, 179, 189, 192, 198, 199, 202, 228, 231, 239, 280, 284, 340, 341, 342, 352, 358, 362, 378, 393, 394, 402, 421, 423, 427*, 429, 635

      Forum Boarium, 340, 342, 358

      Forum Holitorium, 342

      Forum Iulii (Fréjus), 474

      Forum Iulium, 192, 341

      Forum Piscatorium, 342

      Forum Traianum, 411

      forums, 464, 466, 473, 477

      fountains, 343-345, 348, 384, 515

      Fourth Gospel, see John, Gospel of Saint Fracastaro, Girolamo, Italian astronomer, poet, and physician (1483-1553), 154


      Fragonard, Jean Honoré, French painter and engraver (1732-1806), 351

      France, 174-175, 234, 302, 369, 406, 470-475484, 671

      Francis, Saint, Italian founder of Franciscan order (1182-1226), 455

      François Vase, 9

      Franks, 175, 629, 653

      Frascati, 454*

      Frazer, Sir James George, Scottish anthropologist (1854-1940, 588*

      free cities, 462, 474, 482

      freedmen, status of, 270, 271, 287, 290, 292, 298, 333, 334, 338, 415, 543, 620, 639

      French, 73, 295, 475, 637

      French civilization, 177-178, 470, 475

      French Revolution, 192, 641, 670

      frescoes, in Etruria, 10;

      in Pompeii, 74, 352-354;

      under Rome, 82, 338, 352-354, 372, 512;

      Christian, 601

      Freya, 479

      friendship, Cicero on, 165-166;

      Horace on, 247, 250;

      in Rome, 441

      From Jesus to Paul (Klausner), 557*

      From the Pontus (Ovid), see Ex Ponto

      Frontinus, Sextus Julius, engineer and statesman (fl. 1st century), 327-328

      Fronto, Marcus Cornelius, rhetorician (110?-180?), 108, 302, 315, 417, 425, 430, 442, 443, 466

      frumentaria, lex, 116

      Fucinus, Lake (Lago di Celano), 193, 270, 326, 410

      fuels, 76, 77, 322-323, 343, 477

      Fufia Caninia, lex, 222, 398

      Fulvia, wife of Antony (?-40 B.C.), 202, 204-205, 206, 208

      Fulvius, general (fl. 3rd century B.C..), 92

      Fulvius, Aulus, conspirator (1st century B.C..), 395

      Funck-Brentano, Frantz, French historian (b. 1862), 475

      Fundamentalism, 592

      funeral rites, 83-84, 98, 101, 157, 180, 190, 199, 232, 282, 335, 378, 379, 381-382, 568, 601

      furniture, 88, 92, 133, 303, 345-346, 352, 373, 459, 532

      G

      Gabinian Law, 139-140

      Gabinius, Aulus, politician (?-48 B.C..), 139, 172, 174, 186, 211

      Gabriel, 289

      Gadara (Katra), 297, 509, 530, 535

      Gades (Cádiz), 40, 133, 169, 252, 325, 469, 470, 514

      Gaiseric, King of the Vandals (fl. 429-455), 670

      Gaius, jurist (fl. 2nd century), 392, 394, 396, 397, 399, 401, 405

      Galatia (Anatolia), 86, 218, 513, 578, 583, 585, 630

      Galatians, The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to, 554, 571*, 585, 587*

      Galba (Servius Sulpicius Galba), Roman emperor (3 B.C..-A.D. 69), 283-285, 323, 434, 436

      Galba, Servius Sulpicius, statesman (fl. 2nd century B.C..), 87

      Galen (Claudius Galenus), Greek physician (130-200?), 313, 334, 375, 428, 430, 505-507, 513, 516, 599

      Galerius (Caius Galerius Valerius Maxi-mianus), Roman emperor (ca. 250-311), 635, 640-641, 644, 651, 652, 653, 654, 662

     


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