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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... affirms that this form of government lasted 200 years , but Diodorus limits it to ninety years ; the former writer probably includes within that period both the kings and Prytanes of the Bacchiadæ , Diodorus only the latter . ( Strab ...
... affirms that this form of government lasted 200 years , but Diodorus limits it to ninety years ; the former writer probably includes within that period both the kings and Prytanes of the Bacchiadæ , Diodorus only the latter . ( Strab ...
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... affirmed , as we are informed by Strabo , that he had seen the finest paintings strewed on the ground , and the Ro- man soldiers using them as boards for dice or drafts . ( VIII . p . 381. ) Pausanias reports that all the men were put ...
... affirmed , as we are informed by Strabo , that he had seen the finest paintings strewed on the ground , and the Ro- man soldiers using them as boards for dice or drafts . ( VIII . p . 381. ) Pausanias reports that all the men were put ...
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... affirms , that Bucephalus was a harbour of Attica , ( v . Bouкepáλeia , ) but this is doubt- less an error ; and , instead of Ts ' ATTIKйs , we ought , I imagine , to read Ts ' AKTйs ; for the word Acte was especially applied to the ...
... affirms , that Bucephalus was a harbour of Attica , ( v . Bouкepáλeia , ) but this is doubt- less an error ; and , instead of Ts ' ATTIKйs , we ought , I imagine , to read Ts ' AKTйs ; for the word Acte was especially applied to the ...
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... affirms , was a native of Sicyon . Within a short distance of the Agora was situ- ated the Gymnasium containing a statue of Hercules in marble by Scopas , also a temple of the same demi- god , the peribolus of which was named Podiza ...
... affirms , was a native of Sicyon . Within a short distance of the Agora was situ- ated the Gymnasium containing a statue of Hercules in marble by Scopas , also a temple of the same demi- god , the peribolus of which was named Podiza ...
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... affirms , was tarnished by his usurping sovereign power in his native city at the instigation of Alexander the Great . The same writer points out in the lesser town a temple of Ilithya , and below the Gymnasium a spot named Posidium ...
... affirms , was tarnished by his usurping sovereign power in his native city at the instigation of Alexander the Great . The same writer points out in the lesser town a temple of Ilithya , and below the Gymnasium a spot named Posidium ...
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