GENERAL Paris: 53, 87; son of Priam king of Troy; see Helen Parnassus: 299; the overlooking Velphi, the Muses Peligon : 281 Telasgians: 373; people of Greece Péleus: 393, 305; son of Aecacus and father of Achilles Pellina : 63; a town of Laconia ‘Penthilus : 369; (1) son of Orestes; Jeader of a (Greek colony to duesbos: (2) a descendant, jather of Dracon whose sister became the wife of Pittacus Pephnus: 63; a town on the W. coast of Laconia Periander: 137, 311; Corinth e. 625-585 B.C, Pericleitus : 25 Pericles: 171; the Athenian states- man ; 450 B.c. Periers (er Periéres) : Aeolus Persephone (Proserpine or the Mid): 33,70, Vor, 250, 277; daughter of Demeter; carried ott to Hades by Pluto when she was playing in the fields of Sicily Perseus: 161; son of Zeus and Danaé; he Yescued Andromeda from a sea-monster Persia : 113 Persuasion: 3, 91, 159, 167, 203, 275, 329; daughter and hand- maid of Aphrodite Phaeaeians: 383; legendary in- habitants of an island W. of Greece, perh. Corcyra Phaedrus:- 155, 159; Socrates and Plato Phanias: 143; (1) a Peripatetic philosopher born at Eresus; a disciple of Aristotle: (2) a poli- tical associate of Alcaeus Phaon : 145, 151 ff. Phémius: 21; a poet mentioned by Homer Philammon: 10, 21, 23; an early lyric poet who won the Pythian musical contest. after Chryso- themis, and is said to have intro- duced choruses of girls into the worship of Apollo mountain sacred to ἃ pre-Hfellenic tyrant of 117; son of friend of INDEX Philylla: 57; one of Aleman’s chorus-girls , Phintas: 15; a king of Messenia in the Sth cent. B.C. ; Phocaea: 249; a city of Ionia, 30 miles $.E. of Mytilenc Phoenicians : 189 Phrygia: 5, 23, 97, 107; a district of central Asia Minor Phrynon: 311, 395; an Olympian victor and Athenian general van- quished by Pittacus in single combat in the war for Sigeum ἡ Pieria ; 19, 168, 233; a district of Thrace associated with the wor- ship ot the Muses s: 21; anearly lyric poet 125; ἃ temm Οἱ @) 308; ὦ city οἵ Asia Minor) Pittacus: 143-5, ae 349, 353-7, 361, 365-7, 395-7, 403, 413; one of the Seven Sages; the aesymnete or elected dictator of Mytilene, attacked by Alcaeus ΩΣ poetry (see particularly 30 Laconia : Aeolis αἵ. Ριίψοάθ (or Pityussae): 117; various islands, notably two off the 5. coast of Spain Plicia : 229; a river of Mysia Polyerites : 145; tyrant of Samos 6. 530 B.C, Polydeuces (Pollux) : see Dioseuri Poreus ; 53; a name of Nereus Poseidon : 61, 347 Priam: 107, 229, 393; Troy Prodieus: 155, 269; of Geosy a sophist or lecturer who visited Athens in the time of Socrates Protagoras: 155; of Abdéra; a celebrated sophist or lecturer who visited Athens in the time of Socrates Psyra: 81; a small island of the Aegean N.W. of Chios king of Pyrrha.: 155, 9531, 347; (ἃ citi of Lesbos Pythagoras: 37, 107, 171; the great philosopher of Samos and Croton 6. 540 B.c. Python: 7; the legendary serpent who guarded the oracle of Delphi; slain by Apollo 457