Sexual life in ancient Greece : with thirty-two full-page plates

GENERAL INDEX

Smerdis, and Anacreon, 433, 471 f.

Smindurides, the Sybarite, 9

Smithy, 176

Smyrna, cult of Aphrodite in, 206

Snails, an aphrodisiac, 513

Snake, Zeus adopts form of, 504

Snake-bite, magical cure for, 368

Socrates, 138, 256; as bigamist, 69; as homosexualist, 453 f.; on love, 489 f.; contrasted with Sappho, 325 f.; dress of, 80; at Callias’s banquet, 252 ; and Archelaus, 453 f., Aspasia, 351, Phedo, 439, Theodota, 398

Sodomites, professional, 437 #.,

453

Sodomy (= bestiality), 504

Solon, reputed founder of brothels, 332 ; legislates against peederasty, 436, 452

Song, at the dance, 162

Sorcery, see Witchcraft

Sordes virilitatis, in superstition, 368 n.

Sotadic zone, the, 416 and n.

Southernwood, magical property of, 365

Sompread, magical property of, 305

Sowing, the month of, 110

Spargeus (Centaur), 224

Sparrow, sacred to Aphrodite, 208

Sparta, morals of, 94; hardihood of the boys, 79; position of girls in, 28, 94; marriage in, 33, 34, 43, 61, 69, 128; pederasty in, 460; female homosexuality in, 316; cult of Aphrodite in, 206; female dress, 31, 83; gymnastics of naked boys and girls, 87, 94, 95; dancing of ephebi, 163; warriors of, 423; baths at, 100; Gymnopedia at, 115, 460; Hermes festivals, 131n.; and the Hyacinthia, 114

Spells, see Incantations

Sphinx, riddle of the, 135

Spiritism, 371

Spitting, 519

Spittoon, 520

Spring, magical, 275, 522

Stag, Actzon changed into a, 195

“ Stage-curtain,” as hetaira-name, 409

Stays, 84

Sthenebcea, 228

Sthenius, 356

Stilts, dancers on, 266

Stone-pine apples, an aphrodisiac, 513

Stories, erotic, popularity of, 248

Storms, charm against, 367

Stratonike and Combabus, story of, 206, 508 f.

Stryangzeus, and Zarinzea, 247

Styx, the river, 305

Sulphur, in witchcraft, 379

Superstition, 363 f.

Swallow, Procne transformed to a, 230

Swan, Zeus disguised as, 229, 504

Sweat-baths, ror

Swimming, 99

“* Swine,’’ as hetaira-name, 409

Sybarites, luxury of, 9 n., 12, 519

Symposia, 252; see also Drinkingbouts Symposiarchos, 168

Synoris, the hetaira, 409

Syracuse, foundation of, 458

Syrian Aphrodite, the, 206

Syrinx, 225, 305

“Tabernacles, Feast of,” 121 Tenia, 105

Tanagra, festival of Hermes at, 131 Tantalus, slays Pelops, 473 Tarantine veils, 86

Tarentinidia, 266

Tarentum, luxury of, 12, 265; destroyed, 13 Tarsus, royal castle given to

hetaira, 403

Teachers, frequent gymnasia, 92

Teiresias, change of sex, 241

Telemachus and Penelope, 23

Telesippa, friend of Sappho, 319

Temple prostitution, see Prostitution, religious

‘Teos, 154

Tereus, 230

Thais, the hetaira, 343 f., 354, 359

Thargelia (festival), 120

Thargelion (month), 119

Theagenes and Chariclea, 288

Theatre, the, 133-60

Theatrical performances, at games and festivals, 110, 112, 113, 133 ; indecency of, 297

Thebes, Phryne and the walls of, 350; shrine to Jolaus at, 444 ; pederasty at, 458; Pindar’s tomb at, 474

Themison, 487 and n.

Themistocles, drunken freak of,

397 Theodota, and Socrates, 398 Oewpol, 107

543