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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 ...

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 ...

A Metrical Version of The Acharnians: The Knights and The Birds

... my crest - bring it in haste . DIC . And the hare - pie for me - bring it in paste . LAM . My crest - have the moths spoilt it ? no , not yet . Dic . My dinner - shall I spoil it by a whet . LAM . Fellow , direct not your discourse to ...

The Topography of Athens: With Some Remarks on Its Antiquities

... Long Walls , properly so called To which of its cities Greece was indebted for the first example of Long Walls , we have no means of knowing . It was not Athens , because the Long Walls of Megara were constructed by the Athenians before ...

Ancient Athens: Its History, Topography, and Remains

... long walls , the Phaleric , the Northern , and the Southern ; yet if all the ports were in the Peiraïc peninsula , it is difficult to imagine what could have been the use of the third wall ; while , if Phalerum lay on the east side of ...

Athenian Constitution

... tradition arises merely from the ambition of the early Athenians to connect ... tradition equally good , pointing to Acte as the abode of the Hopletes , and to ... interior . Tradition , as has been said , connects the Hopletes with Acte ...

The Development of the Athenian Constitution

... long walls from Athens to the Peiraeus and Phalerum . This was the legitimate consequence of the Themistoclean naval policy . Themistocles proposed to establish the Athenian naval supremacy by bringing Athens to the sea ; but since the ...

Athens

... bus #A16 or #B16 from Platía Eleftherías, 300m down Pireós from Omónia (Platía Eleftherías is popularly known as Platía Koumoundoúrou and the return buses are so marked); the monastery is to the left of the road, about twenty minutes ...

The Panegyricus of Isocrates

... Isocrates ap- plied this species of eloquence to the discussion of morals and government , and to the illustration of the duties of the citizen as a member of a political community . In this sense , Isocrates himself , as Cicero ...

Isocrates

Isocrates John Edwin Sandys. Diogenes , 22 Euthynus , 160 Dionysius of Halicarnassus , 81 , 83 , Helenae encomium , 9 , 160 128 ad Nicoclem , 13 Dobree ( P. P. ) , 64 , 73 , 134 , 145 Nicocles , 33 dual fem . , 53 Panathenaicus , 75 , 43 ...

Archaelogiae Atticae Libri Septem: Seven Bookes of the Attick Antiquities. Containing the Description of the Citties Glory, Government, Division of the People, and Townes Within the Athenian Territories, Their Religion, Superstition, Sacrifices, Account of Their Yeare, a Full Relation of Their Judicatories

... belt course in bree- ding up of Children , of any Country in the world . In fo much that Euripides is therefore ... Gymnicalt exercises , hunting , and the like . If he were brought up to no calling at all , in cafe his Father thould ...

The Clouds of Aristophanes

... Notes by WILhelm Wag- NER , Ph . D. 16mo , 200 pages SOPHOCLES . The Ajax . Edited by R. C. JEBB . ( Catena ... Antigone . Notes by MILNER The dipus Tyrannus . Notes by YOUNG TERENCE . Adelphi , Hecyra , and Phormio . Notes by DAVIES ...

The Development of the Athenian Constitution

... tradition arises merely from the ambition of the early Athenians to connect ... tradition equally good , pointing to Acte as the abode of the Hopletes , and to ... interior . Tradition , as has been said , connects the Hopletes with Acte ...

The Topography of Athens: With Some Remarks on Its Antiquities

... torrents , flowing from the heights which unite Parnes with Brilessus , are ... Aio Merkúrio , which now gives name to the pass leading from Deceleia ... torrent , which joins the sea one mile and a half east of the Skala of Apostólus ...

Papers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens

... CIA NOC * ΒΡΑ * ΒΑ 65 ΑΥΡΚΑΝΑΚΕΜΕΗΝΕΟΥ ΜΗΝΑ ΡΟΥΤΕΥΙΤΗΝOC * BA ΑΥΡΜΕΝ ΝΕΑ ΠΑΠΑΑΡΤΣΑΝΟΣΚΕΡ ACIANO C * A 70 15 75 ΑΥΡΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΝOCACΚΛΗΠΙΑΔΟΥΤΥPCHNOC NOTIS MΑΚΕΔΟΝΟCTYPCHΝΟΔΟΝΤΟΣ * AWN ΠΑΟΕΝΝ ΧΑΩ ΑΥΡΑΡKOCΜΕΝΕΟΥΤΑΛΨΕΤΤΗΝΟΣ ΔΟΥΣ ΕΠΙΔΟCIN * Φ Δ ...

City of Sokrates: An Introduction to Classical Athens

... 3.5 ) , Nikias compelled his son Nikeratos to learn the whole of Homer Iliad and Odyssey , that is - in the hope that he would turn into a good man . ( When we consider how much less writing there was to remember then , the feat , which ...

Hellenistic Pottery: Text

... Isis and Serapis , to his queen . 84 The archaeological record , however , associates the dikeras with Arsinoe from ... Knot : 50-10 B.C. The upper part of a knot with a loop at the top is preserved on one Mottled Oliver lid ( 1300 ) ...

A Geographical and Historical Description of Ancient Greece, 3: With a Map and a Plan of Athens

... History . By George Rawlinson , M.A. , Camden Professor of Ancient History , formerly Fellow of Exeter College , Oxford . Demy 8vo . cloth , 148 . Select Charters and other Illustrations of English Constitutional History ; from the ...

Athenian Myths and Institutions: Words in Action

This book analyzes the relationships between Athenian myths and the institutions that informed them.

Excavations of the Athenian Agora: picture book

... eagles . Thus most an- cient references to eagles should be thought of as designating a class of birds including Buzzards , as well as vultures and true eagles . In some instances , the species masked behind the general designation " eagle ...

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