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... Peloponnesus were Achaia , Argolis , Laconia , Messenia , and Elis . Achaia is a narrow slip of country lying between the northern barrier of Arcadia and the Corinthian Gulf . Argolis , on the east , contained several independent states ...
... Peloponnesus were Achaia , Argolis , Laconia , Messenia , and Elis . Achaia is a narrow slip of country lying between the northern barrier of Arcadia and the Corinthian Gulf . Argolis , on the east , contained several independent states ...
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... Peloponnesus . Pelops is represented as a Phrygian , and the son of the wealthy king Tan- talus . He became king of Mycenæ , and the founder of a powerful dynasty , one of the most renowned in the Heroic age of Greece . From him was ...
... Peloponnesus . Pelops is represented as a Phrygian , and the son of the wealthy king Tan- talus . He became king of Mycenæ , and the founder of a powerful dynasty , one of the most renowned in the Heroic age of Greece . From him was ...
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... PELOPONNESUS AND SPARTA , DOWN TO THE END OF THE MESSENIAN WARS , B.C. 668 . In the heroic age Peloponnesus was occupied by tribes of Dorian conquerors . They had no share in the glories of the Heroic age ; their name does not occur in ...
... PELOPONNESUS AND SPARTA , DOWN TO THE END OF THE MESSENIAN WARS , B.C. 668 . In the heroic age Peloponnesus was occupied by tribes of Dorian conquerors . They had no share in the glories of the Heroic age ; their name does not occur in ...
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... Peloponnesus . A single bat- tle decided the contest . Tisamenus , the son of Orestes , was defeat- ed , and retired with a portion of his Achæan subjects to the north- ern coast of Peloponnesus , then occupied by the Ionians . He ex ...
... Peloponnesus . A single bat- tle decided the contest . Tisamenus , the son of Orestes , was defeat- ed , and retired with a portion of his Achæan subjects to the north- ern coast of Peloponnesus , then occupied by the Ionians . He ex ...
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... who possessed inferior political privileges to the citizens who lived in the city . ing left twin sons , Eurysthènes and Procles . This 20 20 CHAP . IV . HISTORY OF GREECE . Conquest of Peloponnesus Helots the Dorians The Spartan ...
... who possessed inferior political privileges to the citizens who lived in the city . ing left twin sons , Eurysthènes and Procles . This 20 20 CHAP . IV . HISTORY OF GREECE . Conquest of Peloponnesus Helots the Dorians The Spartan ...
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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.