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... latter . 81 , 82 Revolt of Potidea from Ath- Congress of the Peloponne- sians : they decide upon war against Athens .. 77 431. The Thebans attack Platæa 81 81 82 8888 82 82 Tragic trilogy Subjects of Greek tragedy . Satyric drama ...
... latter . 81 , 82 Revolt of Potidea from Ath- Congress of the Peloponne- sians : they decide upon war against Athens .. 77 431. The Thebans attack Platæa 81 81 82 8888 82 82 Tragic trilogy Subjects of Greek tragedy . Satyric drama ...
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... latter being occupied by Mount Parnassus , the abode of the Muses , upon the slopes of which lay the town of Delphi , with its celebrated oracle of Apollo . South of Phocis is Baotia , which is a large hollow basin , inclosed on every ...
... latter being occupied by Mount Parnassus , the abode of the Muses , upon the slopes of which lay the town of Delphi , with its celebrated oracle of Apollo . South of Phocis is Baotia , which is a large hollow basin , inclosed on every ...
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... latter is still more striking . Absolute despotism , human sacrifices , polygamy , delib- erate mutilation of the person as a punishment , and selling of children into slavery , existed in some part or other of the bar barian world ...
... latter is still more striking . Absolute despotism , human sacrifices , polygamy , delib- erate mutilation of the person as a punishment , and selling of children into slavery , existed in some part or other of the bar barian world ...
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... latter was hard pressed in a contest with the Lapitha . The invaders were warned by an oracle not to enter Peloponnesus by the Isthmus of Corinth , but across the mouth of the Corinthian Gulf . The inhab itants of the northern coast of ...
... latter was hard pressed in a contest with the Lapitha . The invaders were warned by an oracle not to enter Peloponnesus by the Isthmus of Corinth , but across the mouth of the Corinthian Gulf . The inhab itants of the northern coast of ...
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... latter , but were of the same race and spoke the same language as their masters , being probably the descendants of the old inhabitants , who had offered the most obstinate resistance to the Dorians , and had therefore been reduced to ...
... latter , but were of the same race and spoke the same language as their masters , being probably the descendants of the old inhabitants , who had offered the most obstinate resistance to the Dorians , and had therefore been reduced 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.