Papadopoulos, Georgios. 1919-99. Greek Prime Minister 1967-73, President 1973-5 during Reign of Greek Colonels. 1975 Life imprisonment.

Paphlagonia. Lydia. Persia. 333BC Alexander. 2C BC Pontus. 65BC Rome.

Pappus of Alexandria. Greek mathematician. Collection c340 of Greek works.

Paracelsus. 1493-1541. Swiss alchemist, physician. Chemical drugs. Named zinc. Practica 1529. Hypnotism. Great Surgery Book 1536.

Paris, Congress. 1856. Austria, France, Britain, Russia, Ottomans, Sardinia end Crimean War.

Park Chung Hee. 1917-79. South Korean president. 1963-79 by 1961 coup. Economic growth.

Parmentier, Antoine. 1737-1813. French agronomist, cultivated potatoes.

Páros. Greek island source of white marble. Parthenon.

Pasiphaë. Greek wife of Minos, mother of Ariadne and Minotaur.

Paul I. 1901-64. Greek king 1947-. Resisted Communism.

Pausanius. Spartan. Drove Persians from Greece at Plataea, 479BC. Starved to death for plotting helot uprising.

Pausanius. c143-76. Lydian traveller, guidebook writer. Descriptions of Greece.

Pegasus. Greek mythical winged horse.

Peleus. Mythical Greek king of Myrmidons. Achilles’ father.

Peloponnesian War, Second. 431-404BC. Sparta defeats Athens, beginning Greek decline.

Percival. Legendary 13C knight. Found Holy Grail.

Pericles. c495-429BC. Athenian leader 461-. Led to Athenian dominance of Greece. Parthenon. Height of democracy.

Persephone. Greek goddess of fertility abducted by Hades.

Persian Wars. 490-479BC. Greek city-states repel Persian invasion.

Peter I. The Great. 1672-1725. Czar of Russia. Created navy. Defeated Sweden 1709. Founded St. Petersburg.

Peter III. 1728-62. Czar 1762. Overthrown by wife Catherine the Great.

Phaedo. c417BC. Greek Socratic philosopher. Dialectics, ethics.

Phaedra. Mythical Greek princess. Falsely accused Hippolytus of rape.

Phalanx. 7C BC. Greek infantry formation in 8 rows.

Pharaoh. Egyptian king’s title. =“great house”. Physical embodiment of god Ra.

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