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... called unknown , and of heroes , and of the children of Theseus and Phalerus ; for this Phalerus , the Athenians say , sailed with Jason to Colchis . There is also an altar of Androgeos the son of Minos , though it is only called altar ...
... called unknown , and of heroes , and of the children of Theseus and Phalerus ; for this Phalerus , the Athenians say , sailed with Jason to Colchis . There is also an altar of Androgeos the son of Minos , though it is only called altar ...
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... called the royal portico , for there the king sits during his yearly office which is called kingdom . On the roof of this portico are statues of earthenware , Theseus hurling Sciron into the sea , and Aurora carrying off Cephalus , who ...
... called the royal portico , for there the king sits during his yearly office which is called kingdom . On the roof of this portico are statues of earthenware , Theseus hurling Sciron into the sea , and Aurora carrying off Cephalus , who ...
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... called twelve gods . And Democracy and Demos and Theseus are painted on the wall beyond . The painting represents Theseus restoring to the Athenians political equality . The popular belief has prevailed almost univer- sally that Theseus ...
... called twelve gods . And Democracy and Demos and Theseus are painted on the wall beyond . The painting represents Theseus restoring to the Athenians political equality . The popular belief has prevailed almost univer- sally that Theseus ...
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... called Teuthrania , drove the Galati from the sea into the region now called Galatia . They lived in the region cast of the river Sangarius , having captured Ancyra , a city of the Phrygians which Midas the son of Gordias had formerly ...
... called Teuthrania , drove the Galati from the sea into the region now called Galatia . They lived in the region cast of the river Sangarius , having captured Ancyra , a city of the Phrygians which Midas the son of Gordias had formerly ...
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... called the Nine Springs constructed so by Pisistratus : for there are wells all over the city but this is the only spring . And two temples have been built over the spring , one to Demeter and the other to Proserpine ; in one of them is ...
... called the Nine Springs constructed so by Pisistratus : for there are wells all over the city but this is the only spring . And two temples have been built over the spring , one to Demeter and the other to Proserpine ; in one of them is ...
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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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