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... Hera without doors or roof ; they say that Mardonius , the son of Gobryas , burnt it . But the statue there now is ( as they say ) the work of Alcamenes ; this , indeed , the Persian cannot have touched . AS CHAPTER II . S one enters ...
... Hera without doors or roof ; they say that Mardonius , the son of Gobryas , burnt it . But the statue there now is ( as they say ) the work of Alcamenes ; this , indeed , the Persian cannot have touched . AS CHAPTER II . S one enters ...
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... have been the daughter of Hera . And among the Athenians alone her statues are draped to the bottom of her feet . Two of her statues the women D said were Cretan and votive offerings of Phædra , while BOOK I. ATTICA . 333.
... have been the daughter of Hera . And among the Athenians alone her statues are draped to the bottom of her feet . Two of her statues the women D said were Cretan and votive offerings of Phædra , while BOOK I. ATTICA . 333.
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... Hera and Pan - Hellenian Zeus , and a temple for all the gods in common . But the most remark- able things are 100 pillars wrought in Phrygian stone , and the walls in the porticoes corresponding . And there is a room here with a roof ...
... Hera and Pan - Hellenian Zeus , and a temple for all the gods in common . But the most remark- able things are 100 pillars wrought in Phrygian stone , and the walls in the porticoes corresponding . And there is a room here with a roof ...
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... Hera exposed Hephaestus on his birth , and he nursing up his grievance against her sent her as a gift a golden seat with invisible bonds , so that when she sat in it she was a prisoner , and Hephaestus would not obey any of the gods ...
... Hera exposed Hephaestus on his birth , and he nursing up his grievance against her sent her as a gift a golden seat with invisible bonds , so that when she sat in it she was a prisoner , and Hephaestus would not obey any of the gods ...
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... Hera , Io being changed into a cow , and Callisto into a she- bear . And on the southern wall Attalus has pourtrayed the legendary battle of the giants , who formerly inhabited Thrace and the isthmus of Pallene , and the contest be ...
... Hera , Io being changed into a cow , and Callisto into a she- bear . And on the southern wall Attalus has pourtrayed the legendary battle of the giants , who formerly inhabited Thrace and the isthmus of Pallene , and the contest be ...
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Achæans Achilles Ægina afterwards altar ancient Antigonus Aphrodite Apollo Arcadians Argives Argolis Argos Aristodemus Aristomenes army Artemis Asopus Athene Athenians Attica battle boys brazen statue built buried called capture Castor and Pollux CHAPTER chariot Cleomenes Corinth Corinthians daughter death Delphi Demeter Demetrius descendants Dionysus Dorians Edited Elis erected Esculapius father fight fled fought goddess gods Greece Greeks Hera Hercules Hermes hero hero-chapel Homer honour horses Iliad Ilium inscription island Isthmian games Ithome killed king kingdom Lacedæmon Lacedæmonians Macedonians Megarians Messene Messenians Nemea nians Olympia oracle pancratium Pausanias Peloponnese Pelops pentathlum pillar Poseidon priestess Ptolemy Pylos Pyrrhus Pythian race reign river sacrifice Sicyon Sicyonians sons Sparta stades statue of Zeus stone Temenus temple of Athene Thebans Thebes Theopompus Theseus tomb took town tradition Translated Trozen victor at Olympia victory vols votive offering won the prize wooden statue wrestling Zeus
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