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... instance , in all future attempts to recover literal statements of facts , out of the legends preserved by the Greeks of their earliest foreign relations . The traces of this combination in the Lycian remains are indeed , as compared ...
... instance , in all future attempts to recover literal statements of facts , out of the legends preserved by the Greeks of their earliest foreign relations . The traces of this combination in the Lycian remains are indeed , as compared ...
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... instances . There is nothing in the wildest legend of that spirit of adventure , by which the Hellenic race was , ac- cording to Herodotus , distinguished from the Pelasgic , that does not find its historical parallel in the authentic ...
... instances . There is nothing in the wildest legend of that spirit of adventure , by which the Hellenic race was , ac- cording to Herodotus , distinguished from the Pelasgic , that does not find its historical parallel in the authentic ...
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... instance . The great value of the revelation of Lycian antiquity , is the acquisition of such ancillary illustration in a large and most interesting class of cases . Since these discoveries , the historical pretensions of such legends ...
... instance . The great value of the revelation of Lycian antiquity , is the acquisition of such ancillary illustration in a large and most interesting class of cases . Since these discoveries , the historical pretensions of such legends ...
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... instances , as of Phrygian Pelops at Elis , and of Belids at the Isthmus . The presumption of an historical character here , is no longer checked by the objection , otherwise so cogent , of the improbability of such intercourse at the ...
... instances , as of Phrygian Pelops at Elis , and of Belids at the Isthmus . The presumption of an historical character here , is no longer checked by the objection , otherwise so cogent , of the improbability of such intercourse at the ...
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... instance avail ourselves , - " a genuine local tradition . " The eastern pediment is divided between a god and goddess , who , enthroned facing each other , are each sur- rounded by youth of their respective sexes , of various ages ...
... instance avail ourselves , - " a genuine local tradition . " The eastern pediment is divided between a god and goddess , who , enthroned facing each other , are each sur- rounded by youth of their respective sexes , of various ages ...
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