Philomela. Mythical Greek princess. Raped by Tereus. Tongue cut out.

Philopappus. Syrian prince. Roman consul. Monument faces on Acropolis.

Philostratus. 3C Greek Sophist. Lives of Sophists. Imagines.

Phocaea. Ionian city. Settled Anatolia 10C BC. Colonized Dardanelles, Mediterranean, Black Sea.

Phocas. -610. Byzantine Emperor 602-. Persecuted Monophysites and Jews.

Phoebe. Greek Titan, associated with moon.

Phoenicians. Canaanites. 30-4C BC. Eastern Mediterranean traders from England to Africa. 20C BC Tyre. 15C BC invented alphabet. 814BC Carthage.

Phoenix Park Murders. 1882. British Secretary and Undersecretary of Ireland killed by terrorists.

Photius. c820-91. Patriarch of Constantinople 858~86. Began Great Schism controversy.

Phrygia. 13-6C BC. Kingdom dominating Asia Minor.

Phrynichus. c512-476BC. Athenian playwright. First women characters. Capture of Miletus 494BC.

Physiocrats. 18C. Agricultural based philosophy. Land is source of all wealth. Elimination of controls over economy. Laissez-Faire. Quesnay. Turgot.

Physiognomism. Belief in the relationship between personality types and facial characteristics. Lavater. Aristotle.

Piaget, Jean. 1896-1980. Swiss psychologist. Child development in four stages: sensorimotor, symbolic, concrete, logical.

Piast. 840-1370. Polish dynasty.

Piazzi, Giuseppe. 1746-1826. Italian discoverer of Ceres, first asteroid seen by man 1801.

Picard, Jean. 1620-82. French astronomer. Founded Paris Observatory. Computed size of earth.

Picasso, Pablo. 1881-1973. Spanish/French Cubist painter. Desmoiselles d’Avignon 1907. Guernica 1937.

Piccard, Auguste. 1884-1962. Swiss physicist. Balloon to stratosphere. Bathyscaphe below ocean.

Pichincha, Battle. 1822. Ecuador wins independence from Spain.

Pickens, Andrew. 1739-1817. American Revolutionary. Captured Atlanta.

Pickering, Edward. 1846-1919. US pioneer of stellar spectroscopy, photometry.

Pickford, Mary. 1893-1979. Canadian/US silent film actress.

Picquart, Georges. 1854-1914. French general imprisoned for defense of Dreyfus.

Picquigney, Truce. 1475. France pays England to withdraw army.

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