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... wrestler painted by Timænetus , is one of Museus . I have read verses in which it is recorded that Museus could fly as a gift of Boreas , but it seems to me that Onomacritus wrote the lines , and there is nothing certainly of Museus ...
... wrestler painted by Timænetus , is one of Museus . I have read verses in which it is recorded that Museus could fly as a gift of Boreas , but it seems to me that Onomacritus wrote the lines , and there is nothing certainly of Museus ...
Page 70
... wrestling : some robbers broke into his tomb , thinking to find something valuable there , and after them came others to see his corpse : his ribs were not separated as is usual , but he was all bone from his shoulders to the lowest ...
... wrestling : some robbers broke into his tomb , thinking to find something valuable there , and after them came others to see his corpse : his ribs were not separated as is usual , but he was all bone from his shoulders to the lowest ...
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... wrestling : and this place was called even in my day Cercyon's wrestling ground , at a little distance from the tomb of Alope . And Cercyon is said to have killed all that wrestled with him but ' T'heseus . But Theseus wrestled against ...
... wrestling : and this place was called even in my day Cercyon's wrestling ground , at a little distance from the tomb of Alope . And Cercyon is said to have killed all that wrestled with him but ' T'heseus . But Theseus wrestled against ...
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... wrestling in the Nemean games . And beyond the theatre is a temple of Aphrodite , in front of which is a statue of Telesilla the poetess on a pillar at her feet lie her volumes of poetry , and she her- self is looking at a helmet ...
... wrestling in the Nemean games . And beyond the theatre is a temple of Aphrodite , in front of which is a statue of Telesilla the poetess on a pillar at her feet lie her volumes of poetry , and she her- self is looking at a helmet ...
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... wrestling , and losing the victory , he interpreted the oracle to mean that he would win five victories in war . And the Lacedæmonians , who were not ignorant of what the Pythian priestess had foretold Tisamenus , persuaded him to leave ...
... wrestling , and losing the victory , he interpreted the oracle to mean that he would win five victories in war . And the Lacedæmonians , who were not ignorant of what the Pythian priestess had foretold Tisamenus , persuaded him to leave ...
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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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