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... head of the Athenians and all the Greeks defeated the Macedonians in battle in Boeotia , and again beyond Thermopyla , and drove them into Lamia over against Mount Eta and shut them up there . And it is in the long portico , where those ...
... head of the Athenians and all the Greeks defeated the Macedonians in battle in Boeotia , and again beyond Thermopyla , and drove them into Lamia over against Mount Eta and shut them up there . And it is in the long portico , where those ...
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... head of his army , and , attacking them contrary to their expectation , threw them into confusion as was only likely . And , knowing full well that he was not a match for the Romans in fighting , he contrived to let loose elephants upon ...
... head of his army , and , attacking them contrary to their expectation , threw them into confusion as was only likely . And , knowing full well that he was not a match for the Romans in fighting , he contrived to let loose elephants upon ...
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... head . They say Pyrrhus was killed by a tile thrown by a woman : but the Argives say it was not a woman that slew him , but Demeter in the form of a woman . This is the account which the Argives them- selves give of the death of Pyrrhus ...
... head . They say Pyrrhus was killed by a tile thrown by a woman : but the Argives say it was not a woman that slew him , but Demeter in the form of a woman . This is the account which the Argives them- selves give of the death of Pyrrhus ...
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... head of Medusa the Gorgon , with her ægis . And at the top of the theatre there is a crevice in the rocks up to the Acropolis : and there is a tripod also here . On it are pourtrayed Apollo and Artemis carrying off the sons of Niobe . I ...
... head of Medusa the Gorgon , with her ægis . And at the top of the theatre there is a crevice in the rocks up to the Acropolis : and there is a tripod also here . On it are pourtrayed Apollo and Artemis carrying off the sons of Niobe . I ...
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... head of Medusa . But I am not willing to tell the story of Medusa under ' Attica . ' And , among other paintings , to pass over the lad carrying the waterpots , and the wrestler painted by Timænetus , is one of Museus . I have read ...
... head of Medusa . But I am not willing to tell the story of Medusa under ' Attica . ' And , among other paintings , to pass over the lad carrying the waterpots , and the wrestler painted by Timænetus , is one of Museus . I have read ...
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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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