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... GREECE Male a. Corcyra R S Leucas A L 1.A H DO R Thermo LOCRI ICNEMIDIT Delplu OZOLAE PH Orchomenus ( OPUNTII Corinthiacus Sinus Delium MEGARIS Zacynths Olynipia Alpherus Mantineia I Megalopolis RG Argus Sinium Pr. ephallemia Капрасти.
... GREECE Male a. Corcyra R S Leucas A L 1.A H DO R Thermo LOCRI ICNEMIDIT Delplu OZOLAE PH Orchomenus ( OPUNTII Corinthiacus Sinus Delium MEGARIS Zacynths Olynipia Alpherus Mantineia I Megalopolis RG Argus Sinium Pr. ephallemia Капрасти.
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... GREECE . GREECE is the southern portion of a great peninsula of Europe , washed on three sides by the Mediterranean Sea . It is bounded on the north by the Cambunian Mountains , which separate it from Macedonia . It extends from the ...
... GREECE . GREECE is the southern portion of a great peninsula of Europe , washed on three sides by the Mediterranean Sea . It is bounded on the north by the Cambunian Mountains , which separate it from Macedonia . It extends from the ...
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... Greece ; Theseus , the hero of Attica ; and Minos , king of Crete , the principal founder of Grecian law and civilization . Hercules was the son of Zeus ( Jupiter ) and Alcmena ; but the jealous anger of Hera ( Juno ) raised up against ...
... Greece ; Theseus , the hero of Attica ; and Minos , king of Crete , the principal founder of Grecian law and civilization . Hercules was the son of Zeus ( Jupiter ) and Alcmena ; but the jealous anger of Hera ( Juno ) raised up against ...
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... suitors who devoured his substance and contended for the hand of his wife Pe- nelope . The Homeric poems must not be regarded as a record of histori- cal persons and events , but , at the same HISTORY OF GREECE . CHAP . II .
... suitors who devoured his substance and contended for the hand of his wife Pe- nelope . The Homeric poems must not be regarded as a record of histori- cal persons and events , but , at the same HISTORY OF GREECE . CHAP . II .
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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.
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