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... King Archelaus ; and the manner of his death , for it has been told by many , let it be as they say . Poets even in those days lived with kings and earlier still , for when Polycrates was tyrant at Samos Anacreon lived at his court ...
... King Archelaus ; and the manner of his death , for it has been told by many , let it be as they say . Poets even in those days lived with kings and earlier still , for when Polycrates was tyrant at Samos Anacreon lived at his court ...
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Pausanias. not get the chance of living at kings ' courts , or of their own accord didn't value it , the former because he ... king of the Athenians feast- ing Dionysus and all the other gods . Here too is Pegasus Eleutherensis , who ...
Pausanias. not get the chance of living at kings ' courts , or of their own accord didn't value it , the former because he ... king of the Athenians feast- ing Dionysus and all the other gods . Here too is Pegasus Eleutherensis , who ...
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... king- dom . They say that Acteus was first king of what is now Attica ; and on his death Cecrops succeeded to the king- dom having married Acteus ' daughter , and he had three daughters , Erse , and Aglauros , and Pandrosos , and one ...
... king- dom . They say that Acteus was first king of what is now Attica ; and on his death Cecrops succeeded to the king- dom having married Acteus ' daughter , and he had three daughters , Erse , and Aglauros , and Pandrosos , and one ...
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... king , and that after the death of Menestheus his descendants continued kings even to the fourth generation . But if I had a fancy for genealogies , I should certainly have enumerated all the kings from Melanthus to Cleidicus the son of ...
... king , and that after the death of Menestheus his descendants continued kings even to the fourth generation . But if I had a fancy for genealogies , I should certainly have enumerated all the kings from Melanthus to Cleidicus the son of ...
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... king , married the daughter of Acteus , and the other , who settled at Eubea , was the son of Erechtheus , the grandson of Pandion and the great grandson of Erichtho nius , and the two Pandion kings were the son of Erich- thonins and ...
... king , married the daughter of Acteus , and the other , who settled at Eubea , was the son of Erechtheus , the grandson of Pandion and the great grandson of Erichtho nius , and the two Pandion kings were the son of Erich- thonins and ...
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