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... celebrated Vale of Tempé . Epirus is covered by rugged ranges of mountains running from north to south , through which the Achelous , the largest river of Greece , flows towards the Corinthian Gulf . In entering central Greece from ...
... celebrated Vale of Tempé . Epirus is covered by rugged ranges of mountains running from north to south , through which the Achelous , the largest river of Greece , flows towards the Corinthian Gulf . In entering central Greece from ...
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... celebrated and interesting are those of Ulysses , which form the subject of the Odyssey . After twenty years ' absence he ar- rives at length in Ithaca , where he slays the numerous suitors who devoured his substance and contended for ...
... celebrated and interesting are those of Ulysses , which form the subject of the Odyssey . After twenty years ' absence he ar- rives at length in Ithaca , where he slays the numerous suitors who devoured his substance and contended for ...
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... celebrated was the Amphictyonic Council . It acquired its superiority over other similar associations by the wealth and grandeur of the Delphian temple , of which it was the appointed guardian . It held two meetings every year , one in ...
... celebrated was the Amphictyonic Council . It acquired its superiority over other similar associations by the wealth and grandeur of the Delphian temple , of which it was the appointed guardian . It held two meetings every year , one in ...
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... Grecian world . They were celebrated at Olympia , on the banks of the Alpheus , in the territory of Elis . The origin of Wrestling . the festival was lost in obscurity ; but it is 12 CHAP . III . HISTORY OF GREECE . Olympic Games Council :
... Grecian world . They were celebrated at Olympia , on the banks of the Alpheus , in the territory of Elis . The origin of Wrestling . the festival was lost in obscurity ; but it is 12 CHAP . III . HISTORY OF GREECE . Olympic Games Council :
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... celebrated at the end of every four years , and the interval which clapsed between each cel- ebration was called an Olympiad . The whole festival was under the management of the Eleans , who appointed some of their own num- ber to ...
... celebrated at the end of every four years , and the interval which clapsed between each cel- ebration was called an Olympiad . The whole festival was under the management of the Eleans , who appointed some of their own num- ber to ...
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Page 159 - King Artaxerxes thinks it just that the cities in Asia and the islands of Clazomenae and Cyprus should belong to him. He also thinks it just to leave all the other Grecian cities, both small and great, independent — except Lemnos, Imbros, and Scyros, which are to belong to Athens, as of old.
Page 101 - Oppressed at once by war and pestilence, their lands desolated, their homes filled with mourning, it is not surprising that the Athenians were seized with rage and despair, or that they vented their anger on Pericles, whom they deemed the author of their misfortunes. But that statesman still adhered to his plans with unshaken firmness. Though the Lacedaemonians were in Attica, though the plague had already seized on Athens, he was vigorously pushing his plans of offensive operations.
Page 140 - Pli&do of Plato. With a firm and cheerful countenance he drank the cup of hemlock amidst his sorrowing and weeping friends. His last words were addressed to Crito : — " Crito, we owe a cock to ^Esculapius ;* discharge the debt, and by no means omit it.
Page 34 - Solon was the only man, who, without fear or shrinking, deplored the folly of the times, and reproached the Athenians with their cowardice and treachery. You might, said he, with ease have crushed the tyrant in the bud; but nothing now remains but to pluck him up by the roots.