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    The Story of Civilization

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    Galicia, Danubian, 432

      Galilee, 530, 535, 543, 544, 557, 558, 560, 563, 573, 577

      Galla, 317

      Gallia Lugdunensis, 472, 474

      Gallic War, 169, 174-178, 179

      Gallienus (Publius Licinius Valerianus Egna-tius Gallienus), Roman emperor (reigned 253-268), 608, 629-630, 635, 650, 666, 669

      Gallio, see Novatus, Marcus Annaeus

      Gallus (Caius Vibius Trebonianus Gallus), Roman emperor (ca. 207-253), 629

      Gallus, Aelius, general (fl. 1st century B.C..), 336-337, 508

      Gamaliel II, Jewish Patriarch (fl. ca. 100), 547

      Gamaliel, a Pharisee, and president of the Sanhedrin (fl. 1st century), 576, 579-580

      gambling, in Etruria, 7;

      under Rome, 62, 269, 383, 447, 456, 458, 488

      games, in Etruria, 6-7;

      under Rome, 82, 90, 99, 111, 121, 133-134, 168-169, 171, 212-213, 219, 220, 223, 224, 225, 260, 265, 270, 274, 277-279, 289, 290-291, 302, 316, 319, 332, 340, (children’s) 367, 372, 375, 376, 377-378, 379, 380, 381-387, 388, 389, 410, 415, 423, 427, 428, 438, 443, 447, 456, 458-459, 461, 486-487, 500, 515, 532, 545, 598, 629, 631, 640, 646, 647, 649, 668

      Ganymede, 510

      Gard, Pont du, 474

      Garda, Lago di (anc. Lacus Benacus), 4, 155, 158, 454

      gardens, 76, 132-133, 141, 160, 185, 199, 215, 245*, 266, 272, 278, 280, 319, 327, 340, 343, 344, 353, 354, 362, 421, 440, 454, 459, 500, 532

      Gargantua, 299

      Garonne (anc. Garumna), 470

      Gassendi, Pierre, French philosopher and savant (1592-1655), 154

      Gaul, 43, 48, 53, 73, 89, 107, 112, 118, 119, 129, 144, 167, 168, 174-178, 180-181, 183, 184, 188, 191, 192, 217, 219, 231, 270, 283, 320, 322, 326, 329, 330, 331, 348, 366, 417, 429, 431, 468, 470-475, 476, 478, 479, 481, 495, 513, 514, 602, 604, 627, 629, 633, 638, 639, 649, 651, 653-654, 666, 669-670

      Gaul, Belgic (Gallia Belgica), 176, 431, 433, 472, 474

      Gaul, Cisalpine (northern Italy), 36, 47, 49, 51, 87, 88, 155, 172, 174-175, 182, 189, 193, 196, 200, 201, 235, 236, 454

      Gaul, Narbonese (Gallia Narbonensis), 172, 174-177, 216, 472, 473

      Gaul, Transalpine, 49, 271, 454

      Gauls, 12, 23, 24, 35, 36, 37, 47, 48-51, 86, 124, 130, 174-177, 191, 235, 271, 340, 375, 454, 471-475, 478, 513

      Gaza, 508, 530, 535

      Gazith, 536

      Gellius, Aulus, Latin grammarian (ca. 117-ca. 180), 368, 442

      Gemala, Lucilius, millionaire (fl. 1st century), 461

      Gemma Augusta, 346

      generalship, of Hannibal, 48-54;

      of Scipio Africanus, 52-54;

      of Caesar, 174-178, 182-189;

      of Antony, 199, 203, 206-207;

      of Tiberius, 217-218, 231, 259-260;

      under Claudius, 271;

      of Marcus Aurelius, 428-429, 431-432;

      of Septimius Severus, 622;

      of Constantine, 664

      Genesis, 444, 540, 614

      Geneva, 175

      Genghis Khan, Asiatic conqueror (1162?-1227), 606

      Genoa (anc. Genua), 78, 454

      Geographical Outline (Ptolemy), 503

      geography, 220, 308, 503, 514, 520-521

      Geography (Strabo), 520

      geometry, 75, 314, 368, 503, 507, 634

      Georgics (Virgil), 215, 225, 237-239

      Gerasa (Djerasch), 508-509, 530, 535

      Gergovia, 177

      Gerizim (Jebel et Tôr), 535

      Germanicus Caesar, general (15 B.C.-A.D. 19), 224, 261-262, 263*, 273, 291, 301, 371

      Germans, 174-178, 217, 428-431, 434, 446, 475, 478-481, 627, 631*, 639, 653, 666, 669

      Germans, On the Situation and Origin of the (Tacitus), 434

      Germany, 36, 112, 118, 176, 178, 194, 217-218, 231, 248, 261, 284, 285, 308, 320, 326, 329, 366, 406, 410, 417, 424, 428, 430, 431, 432, 471, 472, 473, 475, 478-481, 633, 644;

      Upper Germany, 291, 439, 479-480;

      Lower Germany, 479

      Gesco, Carthaginian general (3rd century B.C..), 46

      Geta (Publius Septimius Geta), Roman emperor (?-211), 621-622, 634, 635

      Getae, 257

      Gethsemane, 569, 571

      Gibbon, Edward, English historian (1737-1794), 364, 425, 613*, 662, 667

      Gibraltar (anc. Calpe), 39, 40, 43, 194

      Gil Bias (Lesage), 299

      Gilgamesh, 428

      Giorgione da Castelfranco (Giorgio Bar-barelli), Venetian painter (1478?-1511), 355

      Giton, 297

      gladiators, Etruscan, 7;

      Roman, 52, 90, 131, 133-134, 137, 173, 179-180, 198, 223, 265, 267, 274, 279, 303, 313, 351, 370, 377, 382, 383-387, 410, 428, 429, 430, 447, 453, 456, 459, 465, 487, 532, 545, 622, 649, 665;

      schools for, 385-386, 447, 505

      glass, 322, 328, 329, 342, 347, 361, 374-375, 456, 473, 474, 499-500, 510; see also murrhine glass

      Glevum (Gloucester), 477

      Gloria, De (Cicero), 163* Glycera, 247

      Glycon, Athenian sculptor in Rome (fl. 1st century B.C..), 349

      Gnosticism, 502, 556, 595, 604-605, 606, 609, 614

      God, Seneca on, 304;

      Marcus Aurelius on, 444-445;

      Plutarch on, 484-485, 486;

      Panae-tius on, 490;

      Epictetus on, 491-494;

      Philo on, 501-502;

      Galen on, 507;

      Poseidonius on, 514;

      Dion Chrysostomus on, 522;

      Apollonius of Tyana on, 526;

      Plotinus on, 610;

      Origen on, 614-615

      gods, in Etruria, 7;

      in Carthage, 41-42;

      under Rome, 58-67, 69, 75, 76, 81-82, 84, 93-94, 104, 164, 214, 225-227, 235, 238-239, 240, 242, 243, 248, 251, 256, 259, 265, 268, 274, 280, 293, 300, 316, 335, 340, 343, 349, 352, 371, 372, 377, 388-390, 427, 429, 430, 438, 444, 449, 457, 489, 510, 512, 522-526, 557, 588, 601, 607, 625, 646-651, 655;

      Lucretius on, 147-153;

      Cicero on, 162;

      in the Aeneid, 242, 243;

      Horace on, 248-249;

      Pliny on, 309;

      Sextus Empiricus on, 495;

      Lucian on, 495-497

      Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, German writer (1749-1832), 354

      Golden Age, Saturn’s, 61, 225, 236;

      Augustus’, 233-258, 346;

      Diocletian’s, 645

      Golden Ass, The (Apuleius), 299, 442, 467-468

      Golden Bough, 62

      Golden Horn, 483

      Golden House, 280, 282, 283, 344-345, 352, 358, 361

      golden mean, see aurea mediocritas

      Golden Milestone, see Millenarium Aureum

      Golden Thoughts (Marcus Aurelius), see Meditations

      Golgotha, 572-573, 581

      Good Goddess, see Bona Dea Gorboduc (Sackville and Norton), 302

      Gordian I (Marcus Antonius Gordianus), Roman emperor (158-238), 628

      Gordian II (Marcus Antonius Gordianus), Roman emperor (?-238), 628

      Gordian III (Marcus Antonius Gordianus), Roman emperor (226-244), 628

      Gospels, 553-574, 591

      Gothic architecture, 661

      Gothic letters, 479

      Goths, 316, 480, 622, 628, 629-630, 638, 669-670

      gout, 311, 389, 622

      government, in Etruria, 6;

      in Latium, 11-17;

      in Carthage, 42-43;

      under the Republic, 21-35, 57, 89, 93-94, 99, 113, 128-130, 136, 146, 174, 180-208;

      Cicero on, 165;

      under the Principate, 212-217, 227, 266, 270-271, 285-294, 328, 336, 338, 405, 415-416, 418-420, 422-424, 425, 436, 447-449;

      under the monarchy, 623, 626-627, 632, 639, 640-645, 647, 664, 668-669;

      of Rome, 670, 672

      governors, 87, 129, 155, 174, 194, 198-199, 215, 216-217, 261, 462-463, 661

      Gracchi, 23, 47, 91, 111, 113-117, 122, 126, 140, 165, 171, 192, 194, 319, 363, 391, 469, 516, 640

      Gracchus, Caius Sempronius, statesman (153?-121 B.C..), 113, 115-117, 465

      Gracchus, Tiberius Sempronius
    , statesman, father of the Gracchi (fl. 2nd century B.C..), 87, 92, 113

      Gracchus, Tiberius Sempronius, statesman (162?-133 B.C..), 113-115

      grace, 589

      Graecia Magna, 37, 38

      graffiti, 458-459

      Graii, 4

      grain, 111, 116, 117-118, 120, 126, 139-140, 173, 174, 179, 183, 184, 186, 189, 190, 192, 212-213, 214, 219, 220, 221, 237, 260, 265, 267, 270, 320-321, 325, 328-329, 333, 336, 339, 348, 362, 376, 388, 411, 423, 427-428, 429, 438, 446, 453, 461, 463, 464, 483, 498, 513, 631, 633, 641-642, 666, 668

      grammar, 29, 72, 95, 146, 234, 295, 308, 367, 415

      Grand Central Terminal (in New York), 360*

      Granna (Gran), 431

      Great Exposition (Simon Magnus ?), 604

      Great Leptis, see Leptis Magna

      Great Mother, see Magna Mater and Cybele

      Greece, 5, 6, 8, 10, 23, 34, 38, 47, 48, 51, 54, 57, 62, 68, 70, 75, 76, 77, 78, 84, 85-87, 89, 92, 93, 94, 95-102, 104-105, 108, 112, 113, 125, 130, 141, 147, 154, 158, 163, 164, 173, 178, 183, 186, 187, 192, 203, 211, 233, 235, 239, 240, 241, 246, 256, 259, 269, 278-279, 282-283, 287, 311, 317, 320, 323, 324, 328, 329, 330, 331, 333, 338-339, 342, 344, 347t, 349, 351-361, 364, 371, 379-381, 391, 392, 406, 414, 419, 420, 429, 431, 442, 455, 456, 459, 468, 472, 474, 480, 481, 482-527, 532, 542, 579, 588, 594-595, 602, 618, 630, 633, 636, 666, 667, 670-671; see also Hellenistic

      Greek, 72-73, 95, 97, 104, 135, 141, 167, 187, 196, 233, 244, 259, 269, 274, 308, 312, 313, 365, 393, 415, 432, 440, 442, 443, 455, 479, 535, 556, 560, 563, 571, 572, 579, 582, 594-595, 596, 601, 612, 614, 634, 661; see also Hellenistic

      Greek Anthology, 509, 633

      Greek Asia, 482, 486, 490, 512, 518, 542, 630, 659

      Greeks, 4, 17, 18, 35, 37, 38, 39, 43, 44, 51, 52, 58, 59, 62, 71, 72, 74, 76, 78, 82, 86-87, 89, 92, 94-95, 99, 104-105, 121, 132, 152, 164, 240, 242, 249, 253, 255, 256, 263, 277, 311, 312, 326, 328, 348, 352, 356, 364-365, 366, 367, 370, 388, 438, 457, 468, 469, 480, 482-527, 529, 532, 535, 544, 554, 558, 579, 582, 595, 634, see also Hellenistic

      Guadalquivir, 39, 470

      guilds, 499, 536, 642, 644; see also collegia

      gymnastics, see athletics

      gynecology, 313, 505

      H

      Hadad, 522

      Hades, 63, 84, 94, 240, 242, 389, 509, 525

      Hadrian (Publius Aelius Hadrianus), Roman emperor (76-138), 4, 220, 234, 322, 344, 351, 359, 361, 368, 379, 392, 394, 395, 396, 398, 403, 408, 411, 413-422, 423, 425, 426, 427, 428, 437, 442, 454, 455, 476, 482, 487, 489, 491, 499, 512, 516, 548, 549, 603, 624, 648, 662, 665

      Hadrian’s Villa, 421, 454

      Hadrian’s Wall, 476, 524

      Hadrumetum (Sousse), 39, 465

      Haggada, 547

      Halacha, 547

      Halicarnassus (Budrum), 234, 513

      Halstatt iron culture, 471

      Hamburg, 553

      Hamilcar Barca, Carthaginian general and father of Hannibal (?-229 B.C..), 44-47, 48

      Hammurabi, King of Babylon (ca. 1950 B.C..), 405, 557

      Hannibal, Carthaginian general (247-183 B.C..), 39, 47-55, 57, 70, 71, 81, 85, 90, 91, 93-94, 105, 118, 120, 121, 252, 429, 457, 469

      Hanno, Carthaginian navigator (ca. 490 B.C..), 40, 42

      Happy Life, On the (Seneca), 302-303

      harbors, 78, 193, 220, 270, 324, 325, 326, 328, 410, 454, 455, 456, 465, 480, 483, 499, 508, 512, 513, 514, 515, 516, 534

      harems, 199, 447, 517

      haruspicy, in Etruria, 7, 18;

      in Rome, 18, 60, 63-64, 93, 164, 228, 651, 656

      Harvey, William, English anatomist and physician (1578-1657), 506

      Hasdrubal, Carthaginian general, son-in-law of Hamilcar (?-221 B.C..), 47, 48

      Hasdrubal, Carthaginian general, brother of Hannibal (?-207 B.C..), 47, 50, 52-53

      Hasdrubal, Carthaginian general in the Third Punic War (2nd century B.C..), 107

      Hasmoneans, Jewish family, 530-532, 536

      Hatra, 529

      Haverfield, 477*

      Head of Caesar, 350

      Health, 358

      Health, Temple of, 82, 352, 358

      hearth, 58

      Heath, Sir Thomas Little, English mathematician (1861-1940), 504*

      Heauton Timoroumenos (Terence), 101

      heaven, 241-242, 243, 485

      Hebrew language, 41, 501, 533, 535, 556, 579, 614

      Hebrews, The Gospel according to the, 616

      Hebron, 535

      Hecatompylus, 528

      Hector, 240

      Hecyra (Terence), 101

      Heiberg, Johan Ludvig, Danish classical philologist (1854-1928), 504*

      Heine, Heinrich, German poet (1797-1856), 72, 484, 583

      Helen, 256, 354, 516

      Helena, concubine of Constantius I (fl. 3rd century), 653, 655, 663

      Heliodora (in Meleager), 509

      Heliodorus of Emesa, Greek writer of romance (fl. 3rd century B.C..), 636-637

      Heliogabalus, see Elagabalus

      Heliopolis (Baalbek), 498, 511

      Hell, belief in, 8, 84, 147, 149, 241-242, 485, 542, 561, 593-594

      Hellas, see Greece

      Hellenism, 37, 85, 92, 101, 108, 339, 367, 417, 420, 442, 472, 495, 502, 534, 535, 549, 579-580

      Hellenistic age and culture, 78, 79, 84, 86, 92*, 95, 96, 107, 113, 121, 125, 158, 233, 297, 323, 339, 343, 344, 348, 349, 352, 378, 419, 442, 443, 482-527, 530, 532, 534, 540, 576, 577, 579, 581, 584*, 585, 594-595, 606, 630, 632

      Hellespont (Dardanelles), 124, 518, 630, 638

      Helvetii, 175

      Helvidius, see Priscus, Helvidius

      Hephaestus, 63, 352

      Hera, 418, 516

      Heraclea (battle, 280 B.C..), 37

      Heraclea, in Egypt, 636

      Heracleitus, Greek philosopher (fl. 500 B.C..), 484, 502

      Heracles, 63, 226, 278, 385

      Herculaneum, 354, 456, 457-460

      Hercules, 62, 63, 286, 354, 447, 479, 513, 640

      Hercynian Mountains, 431

      Herder, Johann Gottfried von, German philosopher, poet, and critic (1744-1803), 553

      heresy, 577, 592, 595, 603-606, 612, 615, 616, 618, 646, 657-661, 662, 664

      hermaphrodites, 310, 334

      Hermes, 63, 352, 496, 525

      Hermogenes, Greek architect (fl. 2nd century B.C..), 514

      Hernici, 36

      Hero or Heron, Alexandrian mathematician and inventor (fl. 3rd century), 503-504

      Hero, 256

      Herod the Great, King of the Jews (62?-4 B.C..), 487, 508, 512, 531-535, 536, 539, 542, 545, 546, 557

      Herod Antipas, King of the Jews (fl. 1st century), 535, 560, 568

      Herodes, see Atticus Herodes

      Herodian, Greek writer on Roman history (180-238), 620, 622, 628

      Herodias, wife of Herod Antipas (1st century), 560

      Herod Philip, half brother of Herod Antipas (fl. 1st century), 560

      Herodotus, Greek historian (484?-425 B.C..) 454-455, 486, 513

      Heroides (Ovid), 256, 258

      Hertha, 479

      Hesiod, Greek epic poet (ca. 800 B.C..), 238, 495

      hetairai, 7, 68

      Heywood, Jasper, English translator of Seneca (1535-1598), 302

      Hexapla (Origen), 614

      Hierapolis, 390, 490, 522

      Hiero II, King of Syracuse (324?-216 B.C..), 44, 51

      Higher Griticism, 553-557

      Hillel, Jewish rabbi, President of Sanhedrin (60 B.C.?-A.D. 10?), 536, 538-539, 542, 547, 567, 580

      Himilco, Carthaginian navigator (ca. 450 B.C..), 40

      Himly, Karl, German professor of medicine (1772-1837), 310

      Hinduism, 444, 525, 609

      Hippalus, Greek navigator (fl. 1st century), 325

      Hipparchus of Nicaea, Greek astronomer (160?-125? B.C..), 503

      Hippocrates, Greek physician and writer on medicine (460-357 B.C..), 313, 505, 507, 514

      Hippodamus of Miletus, Greek architect (fl. 5th century B.C..), 356

      Hippo Diarrhytus (Bizerte), 39, 465, 603


      Hippolytus, Christian schismatic (?-ca. 230), 617-618

      Hippolytus, 254

      Hippo Regius (Bone), 39, 465

      Hirtius, Aulus, Roman consul (?-43 B.C..), 201

      Hispalis, see Seville

      Hissarlik, see Troy

      Historia Augusta, 655

      Historiae (Tacitus), 434-437, 442

      Historia Naturalis (Pliny the Elder), 296, 308-311, 439

      Histories (Appian), 442

      Histories (Sallust), 160

      historiography, 83, 290, 295-296, 500, 671;

      Varro, 159-160;

      Sallust, 160;

      Caesar, 178;

      Livy, 250-252;

      Claudius, 269;

      Pliny the Elder, 308-311; (art) Pasiteles, 349;

      Tacitus, 433-437;

      Suetonius, 442;

      Plutarch, 483-484;

      Nicolaus of Damascus, 512-513;

      Arrian, 520;

      Josephus, 546;

      Dion Cassius Cocceianus, 636;

      Eusebius, 662-663

      history (in schools), in Carthage, 48;

      in Rome, 72, 367

      History of Rome (Q. Fabius Pictor), 73

      Hittites, 513, 516, 528

      holidays, see festivals

      Holland, Philemon, English classical scholar (1552-1637), 167, 442

      Holland, 479

      holy orders, 600, 658, 660*

      Holy Sepulcher, Church of the, 663

      Holy Spirit, 576, 582, 590, 600, 604, 605, 658, 660

      Homer (fl. 9th century B.C..), 98, 147, 213, 241, 242, 243, 254, 441, 495, 522, 614

      homosexuality, 65, 89, 94, 132, 144, 158, 167-168, 199, 237, 246-247, 266, 276, 279, 282, 290, 297-298, 317-318, 369, 408, 438, 447, 456, 509*, 598, 625, 627; see also bisexuality

      Horns (anc. Emesa), 511

      honestiores, 332

      Honor, 358;

      Temple of, 358

      Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Latin poet (65-8 B.C..), 60, 61, 73, 95*, 98, 154, 155, 158, 215, 224, 225, 233, 234, 235, 243, 244-250, 252, 258, 367, 369, 380, 437, 455, 509, 546, 671

      Horatii, Roman clan, 21

      Horatius (Horatius Codes), hero (fl. 6th century B.C..), 17

      horse racing, 277, 377, 382-383, 500

      Hortensia, lex, 24

      Hortensius, Quintus, orator (114-50 B.C..), 131, 132, 136, 141, 160, 161, 185, 213

      Hortensius Hortalus, Quintus, noble (?-42 B.C..), 203

      horticulture, 308

      Horus, 523

      Hosea, 567

      hospitals, 312

      housing, 341-345, 362, 373, 465, 477, 510

      Huan-ti, Emperor of China (fl. 2nd century), 329

      Hugo, Victor Marie, Viscount, French writer (1802-1885), 249*

      human sacrifice, 588*;

      in Etruria, 7-8;

      in Carthage, 42, 465, 588*;

     


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