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Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker (F Gr Hist)

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Four books of Xenophon's Anabasis

... night - guard , night - watch . výxtwo , adv . ( rúž ) , by night , 3 , 4 , 35 . ff .; 3 , 4 , 38 , ff . Fégŝns , ov , o , Xerxes , king of Per- sia fr . 486 to 465 B. C. For full in- vvv ( enclit . ) , now , then , inferential . vvví ...

Greece in Print

... discovery of the Boswell papers at ... answers are not forth- During his thirty - three year career as a curator , Gallup helped coming . There is nothing new about this either . Philosophy is a process of enquiry , not a crossword puzzle ...

Thucydides Translated Into English with Introduction, Marginal Analysis, and Index

... empire . For we are masters of the sea , and you who are islanders , and insignificant islanders too , must not be ... enemies ? for yours also , may hope to convince you : -Will you not be making enemies of all who are now neutrals ...

Jerusalem and Athens: Cultural Transformation in Late Antiquity

... magical papyri . The Arabic MSS provide a guide to the systematic magical use of the psalms . The direct transfer of potency is made very clear in many cases by the mechanisms pre- scribed . 15 If you are planting vines , you write Psalm ...

A Treatise on the Arts, Manufactures, Manners, and Institutions of the Greek and Romans

... bed - chamber by the widow of the deceased . Thus , in one of the stories of Hyginus , we are informed that Laodamia caused a brazen effigies of her husband to be made , placed it in her bedchamber , and began to worship it . And in the ...

Pagan Regeneration: A Study of Mystery Initiations in the Graeco-Roman World

... drama and theyfeatured lamentations inwhich the spectators participated.The ... Osirian cult included bothpublicrites andsecret ceremonies as well. Certain ... Osirian initiation into a secret fraternity, perhaps. Nevertheless, there wasa ...

On the land shells of Crete

... sparks rise playfully and plentifully out of them , so will ideas arise in the philosophic and scientific mind that can be earnestly cast into a contemplation of the living things , laws , and phenomena peculiar to the deeps of the sea ...

The History of Greece from Its Commencement to the Close of the Independence of the Greek Nation: The Graeco-Macedonian age, the period of the kings and the leagues, from the death of Alexander down to the incorporation of the last Macedonian monarchy in the Roman Empire

... Greek civilization , with which they were all more or less saturated , gives ... Greek world still retained its political side . Its subsequent achievements , in ... doubt Greek republics , especially Rhodes , continue to enjoy their old ...

Pericles and the Golden Age of Athens

... Greek manners permitted in a court of law . The judges were stirred by such an exhibition , and Aspasia was acquitted . The attack was no doubt made in the interests of a party , but it probably commanded the sympathy of a great many ...

Kleine Schriften

... killing in tragedy may be termed 0úɛiv as early as Aeschylus , and the intoxication of killing is called Baкxɛúɛiv.67 In earlier choral lyric , these metaphors do not occur . This im- agery however is not something superficial : if ...

History of the War of Independence in Greece

... battle of Peta , without deigning to give any other reason for his conduct , than that his father wanted him . Freed ... burning sky of a southern summer . It was in vain that they supplicated heaven for rain ; * M. Raybaud received all ...

The Greeks

... Spartan state but at the creation of the ideal citizen. It was a narrow ideal, but for all that it was an ideal. The Greeks admired this: the laws of Sparta did so thoroughly what the Greek thought was the highest function of law. Our ...

Plutarch's Lives, Translated from the Original Greek: With Notes, Critical and Historical and a Life of Plutarch

... rest of Athens , and putting themselves under the protection of Sparta . The ... its operations on the con- hands , and he was the more ready to give credit ... admired and for this reason he was never suffered to for his manner of living ...

The History of Ancient Greece, Its Colonies and Conquests ...: Including the History of Literature, Philosophy, and the Fine Arts ...

... Sparta , the most considerable community in Greece . By order of the ... Its sides were adorned with the combat of Tyndareus and Eurytus ; the exploits of Castor ... admired in the age of Augustus . 6 Plin . l . xxxv . I call it Ionian ...

The Ancient Greeks

... Book of Greek Myths . Garden City , NY : Doubleday , 1995 . Evslin , Bernard . Heroes , Gods and Monsters of the Greek Myths . New York : Four Winds Press , 1999 . Hamilton , Edith . Mythology : Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes . New York ...

A History of Greece: The Greek revolution. pt. II. Establishment of the Greek kingdom

... Thermo- pylae , i . 93 ; barbarian invasions , i . 97 . Claudius II , victory at Naissus , i . 97 , 98 . Clavijo , Gonzalez de , iv . 387 . Clement IV , pope , iii . 361 . Clement V ... 280 , vi . 10 seq .; Greek , relation to Greek ...

“A” History of Greece

... 280 , 291 seq .; the first who visited Greece , iv . 346 seq .; con- quest ... v . 13 ; at Thermo- pylæ , v . 114 , 117 seq .; in Psyttaleia , v . 175 ... king in legendary Greece , ii . 86 ; feeling towards the gods , the king , or ...

History of Greece: I. Legendary Greece. II. Grecian History to the Reign of Peisistratus at Athens

... 280 , 291 seq .; the first who visited Greece , iv . 346 seq .; con- quest ... v . 13 ; at Thermo- pylæ , v . 114 , 117 seq .; in Psyttaleia , v . 175 ... king in legendary Greece , ii . 86 ; feeling towards the gods , the king , or ...

The Greek World Under Roman Sway: From Polybius to Plutarch

... 1 . ANTONINUS , MARCUS AURELIUS.— Book IV . OF THE MEDITATIONS . The Greek ... PALADIN AND SARACEN . Stories from Ariosto . By H. C. HOLLWAY - CAL- THROP ... Prophecy of Israel's Restoration ( Isaiah xl . Ixvi . ) Arranged and Edited for ...

Ancient Greeks

A guide for beginner readers to Ancient Greece and the lives of its citizens.

Greece, 1979: Illustrated Edition with Maps and City Plans

... Restaurant and Lounge . With its intimate bar and pleas- ant dining room ... zara's serves a dozen pasta dishes and many pizzas , as well as chicken ... lounge , room service , pool , 2 saunas , spa , 2 tennis courts , health club , beach ...

An Undergraduate's Trip to Italy and Attica: Being Notes of a Tour Made to Those Countries in the Winter of 1880-81

... English waiter , at the hotel in which he may chance to be staying , plies him during his meals . No doubt the waiter is partly influenced by the laud- able motive to make the best use he can of his English , while he has the ...

The Life and Times of Archimedes

Archimedes was one of the greatest mathematicians and inventors of the ancient world.

Archimedes and the Door of Science

A biography of one of the important scientists of ancient Greece, and an explanation of his contributions to physics, astronomy, and mathematics.

Ancient Greece

Then use the giant pull-out wallchart to decorate your room. Great for projects or just for fun, this fact-packed guide and CD shows and tells you everything you need to know about this ancient civilization.

Greek Oligarachies Their Character and Organisation

... supreme13 , though he might 8 One account that Aristotle gives of the origin of Aristocracy is σvvé- βαινε γίνεσθαι πολλοὺς ὁμοίους πρὸς ἀρετὴν ( Pol . iii 15 1286 b 12 ) . 9 Pol . iii 14 1285 b 6 . 1 ii p . 61 . 11 The σκηπτρόν τ ' ἠδὲ ...

Griechische Religion der archaischen und klassischen Epoche

Dabei bleibt es auch fur Laien lesbar. Die Neuauflage ist unter Einbezug der neueren Literatur durchgehend uberarbeitet und aktualisiert. This is the first major synthesis of Greek religion to appear for a generation.

Mount Athos, the Sacred Bridge: The Spirituality of the Holy Mountain

... Filocalia " , in Rigo , Nicodemo l'Aghiorita e la Filocalia , pp . 83-102 , especially pp . 97-8 , 100-2 . An early example of a ' proto - philokalic ' collection is the brief anthology of texts to be found in Nikephoros the Hesychast ...

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