GREECE (Ancient)
(See also Alexander the Great; Hellenists; World Powers)
abortion: g78 6/22 4
Alexander the Great: ce 220; w84 4/1 12-13; g72 1/22 13-17; ad 49-50
siege of Tyre: ce 217-218
temper outburst: g80 5/8 24
‘altar to an Unknown God’ (Ac 17:23): ad 60-61; g63 8/22 10
Anaxagoras: w80 10/1 11; w78 5/15 26
Anaximander: w80 10/1 11; w78 5/15 26
ancestry of people: ad 685-686; ep 32
architecture: g70 5/22 22
Aristotle: w78 5/15 26; g78 11/8 29; ad 685
Athens: ad 158-159
Acropolis: g78 6/22 26
Agora: w81 7/1 28; g78 6/22 25-26
Areopagus (Mars’ Hill): w85 9/15 28; w81 7/1 28; g78 6/22 26; ad 118
discussion: w81 7/1 27-30
Parthenon: g78 6/22 26
Babylonian influence: ts 27-29, 44
battle of Marathon: w65 629; bf 381
battle of Thermopylae: w65 629; bf 383; w59 575-576, 635; yw 225
beliefs: po 40; ts 10, 26, 43-44, 95-96; g72 11/22 15, 17-18; w71 509-510; ad 687-689; bi8-71 1366; g70 3/22 19-20; w68 517-518; w67 721; g67 9/22 25; w65 38, 41
Corinth: g76 7/22 12-15; mg63 81-82
dissension in congregation: w79 5/1 31-32
Corinth Isthmus:
efforts to build canal: g84 12/22 26-27
passage of ships overland: g84 12/22 26
dancing: g53 1/8 17-18
democracy’s origin: g75 6/8 25; w71 742; ad 687; w66 714; g53 4/8 9-10; g53 12/22 9-11; w50 519; mk 4
discussion: ad 685-693
Durant’s (Will) comment on disintegration of Greek civilization: g80 4/22 3
education: g66 8/22 13
Empedocles: w78 5/15 26
family breakdown: fl 6-7; g78 6/22 4
famous athletes: g70 8/8 4
gods: ad 671, 688-689, 1690-1691; w65 38, 205, 285-286; g65 7/22 25; g64 5/22 30; g64 12/22 6; mg63 80; g63 8/22 10; ns 15; w59 166, 196, 559-560; w58 743; w57 196; w56 296; g55 6/8 21-22; g55 10/22 18; w53 237-240; w50 459; w47 93; ta 289; g35 1/16 253
gods degraded mankind: w76 212-213
mythology: hp 126-127; w71 509-510
history: ad 685-691
map of empire: w60 380; w59 474, 664; yw 193, 372
map of Greece: ad 692
military tactics: bf 198, 382-383
mother worship: sj 21
Olympic Games: g84 8/8 4-5, 10; g68 8/8 24-25
oracles: ad 689; g65 3/22 22-23
perperuna (“good rains”) ritual: g85 5/22 20
philosophy: w81 7/1 29-30; g72 11/22 17-18; ad 689
evolution: w78 5/15 25-26; g78 11/8 29
immortality of the soul: g84 10/8 9; w83 12/1 28; g82 4/22 25-26; w78 5/15 25; w77 144; w76 652
influence on Christendom: w82 4/1 16-17; w76 652; g76 8/22 23-26; w75 55-56; w75 173
led to apostasy: w83 4/1 19; w78 5/15 26-27
philosophers blinded by own wisdom: w78 5/15 26-27
philosophers’ love of debating: w78 5/15 24-25
philosophers’ view of time: w82 10/1 6
trinity: w84 8/1 21-22; g80 4/22 20
pictured by—
copper of dream image: go 52-55; w61 358; w59 283-284; yw 121-122; ki 185-186; w31 27; w30 244-245
he-goat: w84 4/1 12-13; w77 316-317; w77 390; w71 714-715; is 108; w68 428-429; g65 10/8 27-28; bf 188; w61 359-360; w59 538-539; yw 192-195; bn 47-48
leopard: w77 316-317; w77 392; go 93-94; ad 200-201; w61 359; w59 474; yw 172
Plato: w78 5/15 25, 27; g53 12/22 9-11
influence on Jewish religious leaders: w80 2/1 9-10
Pythagoras: w78 5/15 25; g77 12/22 17
religion: ad 687-690; g68 8/8 24-25; w66 530-531; w65 285-286; w63 56, 292; g61 4/22 15; g48 4/22 22; g48 5/22 22; w46 117; g45 1/17 15-16
ships: g78 3/22 25
Socrates: w78 5/15 25; ad 689; g53 12/22 9
condemned by Areopagus: w85 9/15 28
solar heating: g79 9/8 26
Sparta: g63 7/22 8-9
sports: g70 8/8 4; w58 560-561; w56 241-242; g52 11/8 7, 25; g48 6/22 9-10; g41 11/12 26
use of wine as medicine: w77 710
world power: w77 27; w77 490; go 52-55, 93-94, 99-100; po 132; w71 715-716; w64 245; bf 188; w61 358-360; w59 102, 106, 283, 636, 663; yw 121, 226-227; sr55 19, 127; w53 432; nh 139; bn 47-48; g47 8/22 15; w33 180-181
Zeus statue at Olympia: g76 5/22 14