Preferred Citation: Bowersock, G. W. Fiction as History: Nero to Julian. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1994 1994. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft0489n6b4/


 

General Index

A

Accius, dramatist, 61 -62

Achilles, 57 , 113

Achilles Tatius, novelist, 20 , 51 -53, 88 -92, 106 -7, 125 -28, 132 -33, 134 , 142

Acts, of the Apostles, 123 , 139

Aelius Aristides, 67 , 68 , 78 , 90 , 93 , 112

Aeneas, 61

Aeschylus, 56 , 57 , 58 , 68 , 102

Aetna, Mt. 71

Aezanas, 157

Aksum, 50 , 150 , 151 , 156 , 157 , 160

Alamanni, 159

Alcestis, 110 , 112

Alcibiades, 57 , 67 , 68

Alexander, the Great, 30 , 31 , 32 , 36 , 71 , 102 -3, 111 , 116

Alexander Severus, emperor (A.D . 222-235), 160

Alexandria, in Egypt, 7 , 24

Amazons, 45 , 48

Anthia, fictional heroine, 88 , 105

Antichrist, 96

Antioch, in Syria, 51

Antonius Diogenes, writer of fiction, 20 , 37 -44, 99 , 100 -101, 103 , 104 , 114

Fl. Antonius Diogenes, 39

L. Antonius Claudius Dometinus Diogenes, 39

Aphrodisias, city in Caria, 38 -40

Aphrodite, 40 , 88 , 89

Apollo, 60 , 66 , 90 , 102 , 106 ;

Smintheus, 66

Apollonius, philosopher, 67

Apollonius, of Tyana, 96 -97, 109 -10, 118

Apuleius, author of Metamorphoses , 13 , 15 , 108 -9

Arabs, 47

Ariadne, 105

Aristophanes, 6 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 34

Aristotle, 121

Arrian, historian, 32 , 111

Artemidorus, of Daldis: on fictions, 17 -19, 22 , 145 -47;

compared to novelists, 89 -90, 92 -98

Artemis, 88 , 90 , 93

Asclepius, 78

Ascyltos, 82

Asenath, 21

Asia Minor, 26 , 139


176

Astraeus, 100 , 104

Athens, 103 , 121 , 140

Attica, 125 , 128

Augustus, emperor (27 B.C.-A.D . 14), 19 , 31 , 71

Aurelian, emperor (A.D . 270-275), 150 , 156 , 160

Aurelius, Marcus, emperor (A.D . 161-180), 1 , 2 , 52 , 67 , 76 , 78 , 86 , 98 , 115

Ausonius, poet, 75

Avidius Cassius, 52

Aztecs, 129 , 131

B

Babylon, 103

Bactrians, 47

Baiae, 37

Baku, 36

Barbarians, 30 , 31 , 41 , 41 , 43 , 44 , 46 , 52 , 53

Bardaisan, 46 -48

Bartsch, S., 91 , 91

Beck, E., 155

Bible, 113

Bickell, G., 155

Black Sea, 36 , 38

Blemmyes, 150 , 156 , 157 , 159 , 160

Bolu, 158

Boukoloi , 51 -53, 106 , 131 -33

Brahmans, 47 , 48 , 71 , 102 , 116

Bulgakov, Mikhail, 5 n7

Byzantium, 143

C

Calanus, 71 , 102 -3, 116

Calasiris, 49 , 90 , 91 , 92

Calligone, fictional heroine, 45

Callirhoe, fictional heroine, 41 , 87 -88, 104 -5

Campania, 60

Cana, 126

Cannibalism, 52 , 129 -36, 138

Carrhae, 158

Carthage, 30

Caspian Sea, 36 , 38

Cassius Dio, historian, 52 , 78 , 93 , 98

Cassius Maximus, patron of Artemidorus, 94

Cataphractarii , 158 -59

Celsus, 2 , 5 , 4 , 6 , 7 , 9 , 21 , 110 , 119 , 124 , 143 ;

on Jesus's cry from the cross, 74 -75;

on Jesus's resurrection, 114 -15;

on Jesus's appearance before Mary Magdalene, 95 -96, 117 -18

Chaereas, fictional hero, 41 , 87 -88, 104 -5

Chaldaeans, 47

Charicleia, fictional heroine, 49 , 50 , 90 , 91 , 92 , 141

Chariton, of Aphrodisias, novelist, 16 n28, 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 43 , 44 , 45 , 87 -88, 104 -5, 112 , 116 , 117

Chateaubrun, 64 -65

Chinese, 47 , 48 , 156 -57, 160

Chone, 60

Christianity, 4 , 121 , 122 , 157

Chryse, 57 , 66

Chuvin, P., 153

Cicero, 1 , 10 , 121 ;

on history, 7 , 12 ;

on endurance of pain, 62 -65, 70 , 71 , 76 ;

on dreams, 79 -80, 92 ;

on the Brahman Calanus, 102 -3

Cimmerians, 100

Claudian, poet, 159

Claudius, emperor (A.D. . 41-54), 119

Cleisthenes, 1

Cleitophon, fictional hero, 88 , 92 , 93 , 108 , 133 , 142

Clement, novelized saint, 140 -41

Clibanarii , 158

Cloudcuckooland, 20 -21

Cnemon, 92

Colonna, A., 151 , 152 , 153 , 155


177

Colosseum, 8

Comedy, New, 18 , 19 , 33 , 34

Comedy, Old, 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 34

Constantine, emperor (A.D . 306-337), 51

Constantius II, emperor (A.D . 337-361), 49 , 154 , 158 -59

Cos, 66

Crassus, 158 , 159

Cratinus, comic dramatist, 19 , 34

Ctesias, 4 , 7 , 124

Cupid, 108

Cyprus, 139

Cyrus, 7

D

Damis, 110

Danube River, 36

Dares, Phrygian, 11 , 23

Deianira, 57

Deinias, fictional traveler, 36 , 38 , 43

Delta, of the Nile, 51 , 53 , 106 , 132

Demosthenes, orator, 78

Dercyllis, 100

Dictys, Cretan, 11 , 13 , 23 , 24 , 36 , 66 , 67 , 68 , 74

Dio, of Prusa, "Chrysostom", 55 -56, 58 , 59 , 63 , 72 , 72 -73

Dionysius, of Miletus, in Chariton, 112

Dionysus, 105 , 125 -26, 128 , 132

Dölger, F., 153

Domitian, emperor (A.D . 81-96), 26 , 36 , 37 , 117

E

Edessa, 46

Egypt, 26 , 47 , 52

Empedocles, 71

Encolpius, 112 -13

Endor, witch of, 102

Ephesus, 90

Ephraem, Syrian, 47 , 49 , 153 -55

Epicureans, 103

Epicurus, philosopher, 34

Epimenides, 5

Ethiopia, and Ethiopians, 49 , 50 , 90 , 150 , 157

Eubiotus, 45

Eucharist, 126 -29

Eumolpus, 113 , 134 -36, 138

Euphorion, of Chalkis, 60 -62

Eupolis, comic dramatist, 19 , 34

Euripides, 56 , 57 , 58 , 59 , 62 , 63 , 68 , 72 -73, 101

Eurydice, 101

F

Fahd, Toufic, 145 -46

Faustinus, friend of Antonius Diogenes, 37 -38

Faustinus, patron of Martial, perhaps identical with foregoing Faustinus, 37 -38

Feeley-Harnick, G., 129

Foucault, M., 83 , 85

Freaks, 33

Freud, Sigmund, 80 -81, 85 , 89 , 93 , 97 , 98

Fronto, Cornelius, rhetorician, 94

Frye, Northrop, 16 , 122 -23, 125

G

Galaktion, St., 142 n48

Galen, physician, 77 -78, 79 , 80 , 90 , 93 , 98

Gauls, 48

Germany, 47

Getae, 100 , 103

Gladiators, 65 -66

Gorgon, 10

Gracchi, 1

Greece, 139

Guignol, Grand, 107

H

Habrocomes, fictional hero, 88 , 105

Hadrian, emperor (A.D . 117--138), 43

Harvard, university, 123


178

Hatra, 47

Hecabe, 10

Hecataeus, 7

Heliodorus, novelist, 16 , 48 -49, 50 , 52 , 90 , 91 , 102 , 141 , 142 , 149 -60

Hellenism, 14 , 41 , 41 , 44 , 45 , 46 , 53

Henrichs, A, 133

Hephaestion, father of Ptolemaeus Chennus, 24

Heracles, 56 -57, 71 -72, 101 , 110 , 118

Hercher, R., 147

Hermogenes, the short, 34

Herodotus, 4 , 7 -8, 31 , 43 , 79 , 100 , 101 , 103 , 130 -31, 133 -34, 135 -36

Hierocles, 110

Hindus, 48

Historia Augusta , 52 , 150 , 151 , 152 , 156 -57, 160

Homer, 1 , 4 n4, 6 , 7 , 46 , 56 , 78 , 101 , 121 ;

Homeric revisionism, 21 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 67 , 111 -12

Horace, poet, 19 , 29 , 34

Housman, A. E., 32 , 33 n8

Hydaspes, 156

I

Ikarios, 125 , 128

India, 47 , 156

Isis, 91 , 108 , 131

Islam, 121

Isocrates, 30

Issedonians, 130

Italy, 60 , 66 , 118

J

Jerome, St. (Hieronymus), 52

Jerusalem, 140

Jesus, Christ, 3 , 103 , 110 , 114 , 116 , 117 , 118 , 119 , 124 , 128 , 129 , 132 , 137 , 143 ;

on the cross, 74 -75;

resurrection, 95 -96;

body and blood, 126 -27

Jews, 4 , 40 , 121 , 124 , 128 , 132

John, evangelist, 132

Joseph, 21

Judaea, 29 , 116

Judaism, 121 , 129 , 136

Julia Domna, empress, 109

Julia Tertulla, 26

Julian, emperor (A.D . 361-363), 16 , 48 -49, 51 , 75 , 111 , 113 , 142 , 153 -55, 158 -59

Julianus, epigrammatist, 76

L. Julius Marinus Caecilius Simplex, 26

K

Kermode, F., 123

Keydell, R, 153 , 155

Krauss, F. S., 84

Krimissa, 60

Kronos, 127 , 130

L

Lacombrade, C., 153

Laocoön, sculpture, 64 -65, 70 , 76

Laodicea, in Syria, 140

Lazarus, 114 -15

Lemnos, 60 , 63 , 66 , 68 -69

Leontini, 69 n34

Lessing, G. E., 64 -66, 69 , 70 , 76

Leucippe, fictional heroine, 88 , 89 , 90 , 92 , 106 -8, 131 -33, 142

Lollianus, novelist, 51 , 52 , 133

Lucan, poet, 157

Lucian, 2 , 11 , 13 , 16 , 17 , 34 , 44 , 45 , 46 , 143 ;

True Stories , 4 -7, 19 -21, 32 , 37 ;

Toxaris , 44 -46, 133 -134;

Peregrinus , 71 -72

Lucillius, epigrammatist, 8 , 9 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 34 , 35 , 38

Lucius, man and ass, 108 -9

Luke, evangelist, 111

Lycophron, poet, 61


179

Lycopolis, 154

Lycurgus, lawgiver, 2 n1

M

Macedonia, 139

MacMullen, R., 142

Makalla, 60 , 64

Mali, 131

Marcus, the thin, 34

Mark, evangelist, 115

Marsyas, 106

Martial, epigrammatist, 8 -9, 22 , 26 , 27 , 35 , 37 , 38 , 64

Martyrs, 130 , 141

Mary Magdalene, 95 -96, 115

Massagetae, 130

Maximus, of Tyre, 94

Medes, 47 , 48

Menander, comic dramatist, 19 , 33

Meroe, 50 , 150 , 156 , 157

Milesian tales, 124

Miletus, 41

Millar, Fergus, 15

Mnesippus, 44

Momigliano, A., 121 -22, 123

Morgan, J. R., 92 , 153

Mygdonius, river, 154

Myrto, 100

N

Nain, 110

Necromancy, 101 -2

Neikokeitai , 53

Neoptolemos, 57 , 58 , 65

Nero, emperor (A.D 54-68), 8 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 43 , 66 , 74 , 103 , 112 , 114 , 117 , 119 , 124 , 138

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 15 n25

Nikochis, 53

Nile, river, 154 , 157

Ninus, 21

Nisibis, 48 -49, 153 -55

Nonnos, poet, 125

Norton, Charles Eliot, lectures, 123

Nubia, 50

Numa, 1 , 2 n1

O

Odrysians, 118

Odysseus, 57 , 78 , 59 , 62 , 66 , 67 , 68 , 72 -73

Olympia, and competitions, 71 , 115

Origen, 3 , 9 , 10 , 12 , 21 , 74 -75, 95 -96, 97 , 98 , 114 -15, 118 , 124 , 143

Orpheus, 8 -9, 101 , 112 , 118

Osiris, 131

P

Pack, Roger, 145 -47

Padaeans, 130 , 135

Palestine, 12 , 27 , 74 , 117 , 119

Pamphylia, 139

Pantheia, 88 , 90

Paris, son of Priam, 60

Parrhasius, painter, 70

Parthians, 48 , 158

Passover, 129

Paul, apostle, 103 , 119 , 127

Payne Smith, R. 155

Pelops, 127

Peregrinus Proteus, 71 -72, 74 , 115

Pergamum, 78

Pericles, 30 , 58

Perilaus, 105

Persia, and Persians, 41 , 47 , 48 , 158

Peter, St., 140

Petronius, author of Liber Satyricon , 13 , 15 , 19 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 34 , 35 , 48 , 82 ;

Encolpius's recovery from impotence, 112 -13;

Eumolpus's will, 134 -36, 138

Philo, of Byblos, 11 , 12 , 23 , 25 , 43 , 44

Philoctetes, 56 -76


180

Philostratus, author, 11 , 46 , 55 , 68 , 96 -97, 109 -10, 111 -12

Phoenicia, and Phoenicians, 12 , 23 , 43 , 44 , 46 , 51 , 112 , 139 , 140

Photius, patriarch, 20 , 24 , 25 , 37 , 40 , 42 , 100 , 106 , 142

Pindar, poet, 127

Plato, 46 , 67 , 68 , 69 , 121

Pliny, elder, 69

Pliny, younger, 19 , 127

Plutarch, 1 , 7 , 22 , 30 , 59 , 69 , 70 , 94 , 113 , 159

Polemo, M. Antonius, sophist, 78

Polycarp, martyr, 130

Pontus, 36 , 38

Poulenc, F., 101

Proclus, little man, 34

Proserpina, 108

Protesilaus, 68 , 111 -13, 118

Psyche, beloved by Cupid, 108

Ptolemy, Quail (Ptolemaeus Chennus), 24 -27, 35 , 114

Ptolemy V, 154

Pythagoras, philosopher, 101 , 118

Pythagoras, of Rhegion, 69 , 70

Pytheas, of Marseille, 31

Q

Quartilia, fictional lecher, 35

R

Reardon, Bryan, 16 , 86

Red Sea, 156

Remus, 1 , 61

Rhegion, 69

Rhoxolani, 36

Richardson, S. English novelist, 50

Robert, Louis, 94 n43, 117

Rohde, Erwin, 13 , 15 n25, 99 , 103 , 149 , 150

Rome, 29 , 121

Romulus, 1 , 61

Rosetta stone, 154

Rossini, Carlo Conti, 50 , 150 , 156

Rostovtzeff, M.I., 45

Rufinus, 159

Ruso, of Laodicea, 94

Russell, Donald, 38

S

Samosata, 46

Sanchuniathon, 43

Sanday, P. R. 129

Sarmatians, 36 , 45

Scheintod , 99 , 104 , 109 , 118 , 134

Schwartz, Eduard, 14 , 15

Schwartz, J, 150 , 152 , 156

Scythia, and Scythians, 36 , 43 -46, 118 , 130 , 133 -34

Semele, 105

Semiramis, 21

Seneca, younger, 66

Septimius Severus, emperor (A.D .193-211), 78

Serenus Sammonicus, 11

Seres, 150 , 156 -57

Sextus Empiricus, 10 , 11 , 13 , 16 , 51

Sicily, 41

Smith, Adam, 64 -65

Smith, Morton, 129 , 131

Socrates, ecclesiastical historian, 149

Solon, 1

Sophistic, Second, 14

Sophocles, 56 , 57 , 58 , 59 , 65 , 70 , 76

Sostratus, 90 , 93

Stoics, 63 , 65 , 67 , 75 -76, 78 , 103

Strasbourg, battle of, 159

Straub, J., 151 , 156

Suebians, 36

Supper, Last, 129 , 136 , 138

Syene, 153 -55

Syracuse, 69 n34, 88

Syria, and Syrians, 15 , 139

Szepessy, T. ,151 -55


181

T

Tantalus, 127

Tefnut, 26

Tenedos, 57

Testament, 134 -37;

New, 123 -24, 136 -38

Tetrarchy, 96 , 158

Theagenes, fictional hero, 49 , 50 , 90 , 91

Themisto, 45

Theodosius I, emperor (A.D . 379-395), 149

TheroD, fictional pirate, 87 , 89

Theseus, 1 , 2 n1, 101 , 118

Thessaly, 111 , 118 , 149

Thucydides, 58

Thyamis, 91

Thyestes, 127 , 130

Tiberius, emperor (A.D . 14--37), 124

Timomachus, the tall, 34

Tinerum, 118

Titans, 10

Tivoli, 37

Toxaris, 44

Trajan, emperor (A.D . 98-117), 32 , 55 , 127

Trimalchio, fictional host, 35

Troad, 68 , 112

Trojan War, 9 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 23 , 36 , 43 , 57 , 60 , 66 , 112

Troy, 9 , 56 , 62 , 68 -69, 72 , 111

Trygaeus, 34

Tyre, 100 , 125 -26, 128

V

Valk, van der, M., 151 , 152 , 153 , 155

Vergilius Romanus, friend of younger Pliny, 19 , 20

Vespasian, emperor (A.D . 69- 79), 114

Veyne, Paul, 11

Virgil, poet, 94

Visser, M., 128 , 129

Vulcan, 66

W

Wagner, Richard, 15 n25

Wilamowitz, Ulrich yon, 14 , 15 n25

Winckelmann, J. J., 64 -65, 70 , 76

Winkler, J., 82 , 113 , 126

X

Xenophon, historian, 7 , 124

Xenophon, of Ephesus, 88 , 105 , 116 , 117

Z

Zamarus, 71

Zamolxis, 100 -101, 103 -104, 118

Zeus, 105

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Preferred Citation: Bowersock, G. W. Fiction as History: Nero to Julian. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1994 1994. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft0489n6b4/