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... Thessaly to the return of the Greeks from Troy , was supposed to be a period of about two hundred years . These heroes were be lieved to be a noble race of beings , possessing a superhuman though not a divine nature , and superior to ...
... Thessaly to the return of the Greeks from Troy , was supposed to be a period of about two hundred years . These heroes were be lieved to be a noble race of beings , possessing a superhuman though not a divine nature , and superior to ...
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... Thessaly for the purpose of obtaining the golden fleece which was preserved in Æa in Colchis , on the eastern shores ... Thessalian Myrmidons , stood pre - emi- nent in strength , beauty , and valour ; whilst Ulysses , king of Ith ...
... Thessaly for the purpose of obtaining the golden fleece which was preserved in Æa in Colchis , on the eastern shores ... Thessalian Myrmidons , stood pre - emi- nent in strength , beauty , and valour ; whilst Ulysses , king of Ith ...
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... Thessaly , Locris , and Phocis , they overran the greater part of Peloponnesus , destroyed the ancient Achæan monarchies , and expelled or reduced to subjec- tion the original inhabitants of the land , of which they became the ...
... Thessaly , Locris , and Phocis , they overran the greater part of Peloponnesus , destroyed the ancient Achæan monarchies , and expelled or reduced to subjec- tion the original inhabitants of the land , of which they became the ...
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... of Sparta , defeated the Thessalian allies of Hippias ; and the tyrant , unable to meet his enemies in the field , took refuge in the Acropolis . Here he might have B.C. 514. ASSASSINATION OF HIPPARCHUS . 35 Fourteenth Year.
... of Sparta , defeated the Thessalian allies of Hippias ; and the tyrant , unable to meet his enemies in the field , took refuge in the Acropolis . Here he might have B.C. 514. ASSASSINATION OF HIPPARCHUS . 35 Fourteenth Year.
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... Thessaly to the mouth of the Danube . Of these we can only glance at the most important . The colonies on the coast of Macedonia were chiefly founded by Chalcis and Eretria in Eubœa ; and the penin- sula of Chalcidice , with its three ...
... Thessaly to the mouth of the Danube . Of these we can only glance at the most important . The colonies on the coast of Macedonia were chiefly founded by Chalcis and Eretria in Eubœa ; and the penin- sula of Chalcidice , with its three ...
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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.