wages, 111, 112, 632, 642-643
Walden Pond, 609
Wales, 36, 73, 475, 477
Wall Street, 340
war, 24, 80, 81, 83, 85, 86, 90, 91, 96, 193, 198, 232, 233, 242, 253, 255, 261, 301, 310, 330, 336-337, 387, 424, 478, 602, 622, 632, 636, 641, 650, 665, 666, 667
War of the Mercenaries, 46
Wars of the Jews, The (Josephus), 546
Washington, D. C, 356
water clock, see clepsydra
watering places, 133, 324, 377, 456, 477, 664
water supply, of Rome, 220, 281, 326-328, 343;
in Italian cities, 461;
in Syria, 511, 512;
in Smyrna, 515
Watt, James, Scottish inventor (1736-1819), 504
Watteau, Jean Antoine, French painter (1684-1721), 351
wealth, 88-89, 90, 91, 95, 108, 118, 128, 130-134, 212, 221, 337, 339, 391, 399, 448, 483, 510-512, 514, 631-633, 657, 667
weapons, 33, 77, 106-107, 322, 328*
weddings, 223, 379
weights, 78
West, the, 154, 188, 203, 208, 234, 251, 283, 329, 331, 366, 389, 392, 406, 420, 463, 473, 475, 481, 512, 529, 603, 605, 612, 616-617, 629, 640, 644, 654, 657, 661, 665, 666, 669, 670, 671
Westminster Hall, 635
Wieland, Christopher Martin, German poet and novelist (1733-1813), 553
Winchester (anc. Venta Belgarum), 477
Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, German archeologist and art historian (1717-1768), 349
Wisdom of Solomon, Book of the, 540, 541, 589
Wissowa, George, German classical philologist (1859-1931), 504*
witchcraft, 526, 559
Wodin (Odin), 479
Wolfenbiittel Fragments (Reimarus), 553
Wolf of the Capitol, 82
woman, in Etruria, 7, 18;
in Carthage, 41;
in early Rome, 18, 57-58, 89-90, 99;
in the later Republic, 134-135;
under the Principate, 222-224, 300-301, 313, 368, 369-373, 378, 395-396, 399-400, 438, 485, 505, 596-597;
under the monarchy, 634, 636;
in Germany, 478-479;
in Parthia, 529;
Paul and Christianity on, 590, 596-597, 601
Wordsworth, William, English poet (1770-1850), 147
works, good, 589, 663
wrestling, in Etruria, 7;
in Rome, 382
writing materials, 73