Perses (king of the Taurians)  110
Perseus (hero) passim; identified
with Bellerophon  61; catasterism
of  74–7; childhood of  24–6;
Christian reception of  32–3,
136–8; conception of  18–19; death
of  32–3; equipment of  43–7; as
Eurymedon  59; exposure of
19–20; in fine art  138–43; heroon
of  103; as pirate  122;
rationalisation of his myth  121–6;
sacred recorders of  102–3; as
‘Slayer’  40; in tragedy  13–18,
40–42, 69–72; tricked by
Polydectes  26–8; war against
Dionysus of  28–32; watchtower
of  113
Perseus (king of Macedon)  115–16
Persia  8–9, 76, 84–5, 105, 109–12,
115–16, 126
Persinna  86
Persis, Perso  57, 60
petasos  40, 45, 68; see also Cap of
Hades
phallus  25, 135, 141–2
Phanodemus  30
Pherecydes of Athens  4–7, 14, 18, 23,
25–6, 42, 43, 47–8, 56–7, 68–9,
83–4, 103, 106–7
Pherse  118
Philip II of Macedon  115
Philip V of Macedon  115–16
Philochorus  30
Philodemus  85
Philostratus Imagines  70, 79, 83,
85–6, 89, 93
Phineus, brother of Cepheus  6, 50,
53, 73, 98, 112, 117, 126; P. in the
Argonautic myth  63–4
Phoenix  126
Phoenodamas  93
Phorcides see Aeschylus, Graeae
Phorcys (Phorcus)  5, 35, 57–9, 121,
124, 132
Phormus Cepheus/Perseus  80
Phronime  21
Phrygia  120; P. Catacecaumene  61
Phrynichus (comic poet)  79
Phrynichus II (tragedian)  72
Picus  110–11, 119
Pilumnus  119
Pindar  23, 27–8, 41, 48, 51, 54–5, 61,
63–4
Pitys  112
Pliny the Elder Natural History  52,
71, 83, 117, 123
Plutarch  29, 30, 54, 102, 112,
115–16
Polycrateia  116
Polydectes  5–6, 16–17, 25–8, 41,
50–1, 53, 63–5, 105, 115, 119
Polyidus  49, 51
Polymnestus  21
Pompeii  73, 82, 115, 119
Pomponius Mela  117
Pontus  118
Porphyrios  87
Poseidon  6, 35–6, 55–6, 59, 73, 83,
93, 95
Pratinas  41
Priam  94
Procles (hero)  107
Procles of Carthage  125
Procopius  87
Proetus  7, 20, 22–4, 31–3, 61–2, 103;
daughters of  31
Prometheus  73
psychoanalysis  134–5
Ptolemies  94, 116–17, 126
Publius Antius Antiochus  120
INDEX 191