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Gymnasia, in Egypt, 177 f.

Hannibal, interest for, in Greece, 246 ff.

Hegemony, nature of, 25; of Sparta, 25; becomes an absurdity, 25 f.

Heliæa, constitution of, 49; powers of, 50 f.

Hellas, unification of, 34.

Hellenism, in Egypt, 176 f., 181; in China, 193; in Asia, 133 ff., 205 ff.

Hellenization, of Asia by Seleucids, 195 ff.; of Judæa, 212 f.

Helots, 19; annual declaration of war upon, 86 f.; confined within Perioec ring-wall, 87 f.

Hieroduli, 197 ff.

History, character of, 108 f.

Huns, 192.

Imperialism, defined, 4; evaded by federal leagues, 32 f.; justified, 36.

Indemnities, in Athens, 64.

Industry, in Athens, 12.

Ipsus, battle of, 185.

Iranians, opinion of Alexander as to, 136.

Irreligion, basis of deification of Alexander, 142, 144 f.

Isocrates, 26.

Isopolity, defined, 31 f.

Jews, kinsmen of the Spartans, 79; of the gymnosophists, 80; encouraged in revolt by Rome, 191.

Judæus, Spartan oecist of Judæa, 79.

Julius Cæsar, 4; and Cleopatra, 152 f.; as Ammon, 162.

Kingship, Aristotle's theory of, 120 f.

Lacedæmon, population of, 85.

Laodice, wife of Antiochus II, 186 ff.; murders Berenice, 231; war of, with Egypt, 231.

Larisa, 20.

Leader of the people, at Athens, 60 f.

League, Achæan, 32; defects of, 33 f., 228; expansion of, 230; territory of, 234; alliance of, with Ætolians, 235; development of, 235 ff.; institutions of, 237 ff.; laws of, 240; war of, with Demetrius II, 240 f. ... Ætolian, 32; defects of, 33 f., 228; treaty of, with Antigonus Gonatas, 232; expansion of, 233; territory of, 234; alliance of, with Achæans, 235; development of, 235 ff.; founds city-states, 236; institutions of, 237 ff.; dismembered by Macedon, 240; deserts Achæans, 241; ally of Sparta, 241; attacks Macedon, 245 f., 248. ... Boeotian, 27 ff. ... Hellenic, under Sparta, 20 ff., 89 f.; under Philip II, 28 ff., 244; under Antigonus Doson, 34, 242 ff.; dissolved by Alexander, 129 f.; under Antigonus I, 221. ... of Islanders, 159, 227, 229, 230 f., 232. ... Peloponnesian, 20, 89, 95.

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