A source-book of ancient history - The Search For Mecca

590 Index
Mantinea, battle of, 261-4
Marathon, battle of, 165-7
Marcella, 558 f.
Marius, Gaius, 425-8
Marriage contract, 308 f., 565
Massalia (Marseilles), 107 f.
Mausoleum of Augustus, 473
Maximianus, 528-30
Mayors of the Palace, 576
Media, 55-8
Merovingians, 575 f.
Miletus, destruction of, 159 f.
Military rule at Rome, 417-31;
in conflict with republic, 433-
56
Military tribunes, 355
Miltiades, 163-7
Milvian Bridge, battle of, 533 f.
Minos, 77 f.
Miracles, 567 f.
Mithra, 64 f.
Mohammedans, 574-83
Monarchy, Oriental, 6-12, 27-
33, 50-3, 55-9; Greek, 83,
85-7, 100 f., 117-9, 123 f.;
Macedonian, 266-82; early
Roman, 334-47; from principate
to, 480-501; Good Emperors,
502-20; absolute, 527-
36
Money, 375
f.; making by
Greeks, 294
Monk, advice to, 560-2
Mummius, 394-6
Municipia, 371 f.
Murdia, eulogy on, 494 f.
Museum at Alexandria, 305
Music, 288-90; instruments of,
224 f.; decline of, 289 f.; Roman
taste for, 409-1 1 ; earliest,
460
Mycenae, civilization of, 77-80
Mytilenasans, 213-7
Natural History, 318
Navigation, Phoenician, 43-7;
Greek, 105 f.
Nebuchadnezzar, palace of, 32 f.
Nepos, 74, 315; selection, 258-61
Nero, his tastes, 482 f.; his administration,
483 f.; persecutes
Christians, 522 f.
Nicene creed, 535 f.
Nicias, 221 f.
Nile, 5f.; hymn to, 13-5
Numa Pompilius, 338-42
Nun, training of, 564 f.
Octavius (Augustus), 454-74
Odeum, 188 f.
Odysseus, 85, 89-94
Odyssey, 68; selections, 85-7,
90-4, 307
Ogulnian law, 358
Oracle, 94
f., 159
Orestes, 189-91
Osiris, 17
Ostia, 329 f.
Ovid, 317; selection, 340
Paean, 220
Painting, early Italic, 376 f.
Palace of Alcinous, 85-7; at
Persepolis, 278-80; at Alexandria,
305; Nero's, 482 f.
Pan, shrine of, 163
Papyri, Greek, 309 f., 495-?,
517-9, 525 f-