A Geographical and Historical Description of Ancient Greece: With a Map, and a Plan of Athens, Volume 3Clarendon Press, 1828 - Greece |
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... Argos and Mycena - Republic of the Argives - Description of the coast - Island of Egina- Topography of the interior . SECTION XXI . ARCADIA . 226 . Origin and history of the Arcadians - Geographical features of their country - Its ...
... Argos and Mycena - Republic of the Argives - Description of the coast - Island of Egina- Topography of the interior . SECTION XXI . ARCADIA . 226 . Origin and history of the Arcadians - Geographical features of their country - Its ...
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... Argos , they were afterwards considered as Do- rians . The Achæans never quitted the Peloponnese , but often changed their abode , till they finally set- tled in the province which from them took the name of Achaia . ( VIII . 73. ) It ...
... Argos , they were afterwards considered as Do- rians . The Achæans never quitted the Peloponnese , but often changed their abode , till they finally set- tled in the province which from them took the name of Achaia . ( VIII . 73. ) It ...
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... Argos and Mycena . On the invasion of their territory by the Dorians and Heraclidæ , Doridas and Hyanthidas , the last princes of this race , abdicated the crown in favour of Aletes , a descendant of Hercules , whose lineal successors ...
... Argos and Mycena . On the invasion of their territory by the Dorians and Heraclidæ , Doridas and Hyanthidas , the last princes of this race , abdicated the crown in favour of Aletes , a descendant of Hercules , whose lineal successors ...
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... Argos , for the mutual protection of their rights and privileges . ( V. 17. 27. 31. ) On the re- fusal , however , of the Boeotians to join this confede- racy , the Corinthians deemed it more prudent to abandon the line of policy they ...
... Argos , for the mutual protection of their rights and privileges . ( V. 17. 27. 31. ) On the re- fusal , however , of the Boeotians to join this confede- racy , the Corinthians deemed it more prudent to abandon the line of policy they ...
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... Argos , and still more by their active cooperation in the measures adopted by Gy- lippus for the rescue and deliverance of Syracuse ; since no small share of the success which was ob- tained at sea is to be attributed to the able ...
... Argos , and still more by their active cooperation in the measures adopted by Gy- lippus for the rescue and deliverance of Syracuse ; since no small share of the success which was ob- tained at sea is to be attributed to the able ...
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