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... sent to punish the Athenians , Antigonus , the son of Demetrius , in person making a raid into their territory with a land force and ravaging it , and the fleet simultaneously hemming them in by sea . Now the Piræus was a township in ...
... sent to punish the Athenians , Antigonus , the son of Demetrius , in person making a raid into their territory with a land force and ravaging it , and the fleet simultaneously hemming them in by sea . Now the Piræus was a township in ...
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... sent to aid the Lacedemonians . Xeno- phon and others have written the history of the entire war , the occupation of Cadmeia , and the slaughter of the Lace- damonians at Leuctra , and how the Bootians made a raid into the Peloponnese ...
... sent to aid the Lacedemonians . Xeno- phon and others have written the history of the entire war , the occupation of Cadmeia , and the slaughter of the Lace- damonians at Leuctra , and how the Bootians made a raid into the Peloponnese ...
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... sent into Egypt as a companion to Eurydice ) , and so enamoured was he of her that he had children by her , and when his end was near willed to reign over Egypt Ptolemy , ( from whom the Athenians name one tribe ) , his son by Berenice ...
... sent into Egypt as a companion to Eurydice ) , and so enamoured was he of her that he had children by her , and when his end was near willed to reign over Egypt Ptolemy , ( from whom the Athenians name one tribe ) , his son by Berenice ...
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... sent into all parts of Anti- chus ' dominions guerilla troops to ravage the country where the defenders were weak , and more formidable bodies he checked with his army , so that Antiochus had no longer the chance to invade Egypt . I ...
... sent into all parts of Anti- chus ' dominions guerilla troops to ravage the country where the defenders were weak , and more formidable bodies he checked with his army , so that Antiochus had no longer the chance to invade Egypt . I ...
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... sent them back afterwards to the Athenians . And in the theatre , which they call Odeum , there are statues , in the entrance , of the Egyptian kings . Their names are all Ptolemy alike , but each has another distin- guishing name also ...
... sent them back afterwards to the Athenians . And in the theatre , which they call Odeum , there are statues , in the entrance , of the Egyptian kings . Their names are all Ptolemy alike , but each has another distin- guishing name also ...
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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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