Part 30

Parthians, rebellion of, 188, 192; power of, 192.

Patriotism, in city-states, 18 f.

Pella, 118, 221.

Pergamum, incites dynastic war in Syria, 191.

Pericles, 41; law of, regarding citizenship, 14; Funeral Oration of, 44 ff.; and art, 48; and drama, 48; and Plato, 48 f.; aim of, in introducing indemnities, 64 f.; ideal of, 64 f.; defends misuse of tribute, 71 f.; judgment on, by Thucydides, 75 f.

Perioecs, 19; ring of, around Spartan land, 88.

Persepolis, 129.

Persia, supports hegemony in Greece, 25; feudal lords in empire of, 199.

Persians, conciliated by Alexander, 130, 131; Hellenization of, 133; foster local religions, 197 ff.

Pharaoh, sole god on earth, 163.

Phila, wife of Antigonus Gonatas, 223.

Philip II, and Thebes, 28 f.; hegemon of Hellas, 28 ff.; relations of, with Olympias, 116; murder of, 116; achievements of, 116 ff.; court of, 118.

Philip V, war of, with Ætolians, 245 f.

Phoenicia, source of timber for Egypt, 172.

Phthia, queen of Macedon, 234.

Plato, 26; a student of his present alone, 99; without sense of historic truth, 99 f., 107; misreads the future, 100; historic conceptions of, 100 f.; and governmental control, 101 f.; disgust of, for democracy, 102; abandons theory of individual liberty, 102; dislike of, for Athenian empire, 103; dislike of, for Athenian culture, 103 f.; assailant of materialism, 105; advocate of aristocracy, 106 f.

Plutarch, 15.

Poetry, place of, in Greek education, 119 f.

Politics, in Athens, 56 f.; instruction of Alexander in, 120.

Polybius, in Egypt, 181.

Polytheism, elasticity of, 140 f.

Pompey, conquers Syria, 191.

Popillius, Gaius, 213.

Priests, governments of, in Asia Minor, 197 f.

Proskynesis, of individuals established, 131; meaning of, 131 ff.; of cities, 147 f.; under the diadochi, 164 f., 208, 221.

Prussia, divine right of kings in, 3, 37.

Ptolemais, 163 f.

Ptolemies, dynasty of, 151 f.; empire of, restored, 153 f.; imperial policy of, 155; saved by Rome, 160; deification of, in Greek cities, 164; army of, 167 f., 173 ff.; owners of land and people of Egypt, 169; farmers, manufacturers, merchants, 169 f.; temple policy of, 172 f.; land policy of, 172 ff.; gifts of, to friends, 173; abandon land policy, 180; later monarchs, 181 f.; lose Palestine, 188; incite dynastic war in Syria, 191.