Pausanias' Description of Greece, Volume 1G. Bell, 1900 |
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... gives one reason to remember the famous lines of a well - known Rector of Welwyn in the Eighteenth Century . " The commentators each dark passage shun , And hold their farthing candle to the Sun. " In the Index it is hardly necessary to ...
... gives one reason to remember the famous lines of a well - known Rector of Welwyn in the Eighteenth Century . " The commentators each dark passage shun , And hold their farthing candle to the Sun. " In the Index it is hardly necessary to ...
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... give them ) , are Hippothoon , the son of Poseidon by Alope the daughter of Cercyon , and Antiochus , one of the sons of Hercules by Meda the daughter of Phylas , and the third Ajax , the son of Telamon ; and of the Athenians Leo , who ...
... give them ) , are Hippothoon , the son of Poseidon by Alope the daughter of Cercyon , and Antiochus , one of the sons of Hercules by Meda the daughter of Phylas , and the third Ajax , the son of Telamon ; and of the Athenians Leo , who ...
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... give all the dominions of Alexander to Aridus the son of Philip , and he again was responsible for the different nationalities being divided into kingdoms . And he himself crossed into Egypt and slew Cleomenes , whom Alexander had made ...
... give all the dominions of Alexander to Aridus the son of Philip , and he again was responsible for the different nationalities being divided into kingdoms . And he himself crossed into Egypt and slew Cleomenes , whom Alexander had made ...
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... give after his pedigree . Pausanias that led the Greeks at Platea had a son Pleistoanax , and he a son Pausanias , and he a son Cleombrotus , who fought against Epaminondas and the Thebans , and was killed at Leuctra . And Cleombrotus ...
... give after his pedigree . Pausanias that led the Greeks at Platea had a son Pleistoanax , and he a son Pausanias , and he a son Cleombrotus , who fought against Epaminondas and the Thebans , and was killed at Leuctra . And Cleombrotus ...
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... give of the death of Pyrrhus ; this is also what Lyceas , the expounder of his country's usages , has written in his verses . And on the spot where Pyrrhus died was erected a temple to Demeter in accordance with the oracle of the god ...
... give of the death of Pyrrhus ; this is also what Lyceas , the expounder of his country's usages , has written in his verses . And on the spot where Pyrrhus died was erected a temple to Demeter in accordance with the oracle of the god ...
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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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