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    Ambracia (/æmˈbreɪʃə/; Greek: Ἀμβρακία, occasionally Ἀμπρακία, Ampracia) was a city of ancient Greece on the site of modern Arta. It was founded by the...
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  • Cleombrotus (later referred to as Cleombrotus of Ambracia; Greek: Κλεόμβροτος) is a young man mentioned in Plato's Phaedo as one of two young men notably...
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  • Epigonus of Ambracia (Greek: Ἐπίγονος Ἀμβρακιώτης; fl. 6th century BC) was a Greek musician from Ambracia in South Epirus, who was admitted to a citizenship...
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    Vonitsa lie on its shores. The gulf takes its name from the ancient city of Ambracia located near its shores. Its alternative name comes from the medieval (and...
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  • the Corinthian colony Ambracia, followed after his death by his son Periander of Ambracia. Another known Cypselid from Ambracia was named Archinus, whose...
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    In Greek mythology, Ambracia (Ancient Greek: Άμβρακία) was a Oeachalian princess and daughter of King Melaneus, son of Apollo and Oechalia, and thus, sister...
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  • Silanus (Greek: Σιλανός) of Ambracia was an ancient Greek soothsayer in Xenophon's Anabasis. In 401 BC, he accompanied Cyrus the Younger in an expedition...
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  • famous archer whose reputation overshadowed his father, and of Ambracia, eponym of Ambracia in Epirus. Alternatively, Melaneus was the husband of Oechalia...
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  • Epicrates of Ambracia (Greek: Ἐπικράτης Ἀμβρακιώτης), was an Ambraciote who lived in Athens, a comic poet of the Middle Comedy, according to the testimony...
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    and the number of pteron columns as 6 x 13. Marble was extensively used. Ambracia: A Doric peripteral temple dedicated to Apollo Pythios Sotir was built...
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  • his Histories, mentions the use of such weapons at the Roman siege of Ambracia: The Aetolians being besieged by the consul Marcus Fulvius, offered a gallant...
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    which is part of Epirus region. The city was known in ancient times as Ambracia (Ancient Greek: Ἀμβρακία). Arta is known for the medieval bridge over the...
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  • as Ionian. Dicaearchus gives the name of Dryopis to the country around Ambracia, from which we might conclude that the Dryopes extended at one time from...
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    western Acarnania had asserted its independence, and the Aetolians seized Ambracia, Amphilochia, and the remaining land north of the Ambracian Gulf. The new...
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    This list refers to inhabitants of Ancient Epirus. Ambrax, Ambracia Chaon Echetus King of Epirus Epirus, a Theban, died in Epirus. Kallidike Queen of Thesprotians...
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  • This is a list of tyrants from Ancient Greece. Daphnis, c. 500 BC under Darius I (pro persian) Philiscus, c. 368-360 BC (assassinated) Iphiades, 360-?...
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    general and king of Epirus Epicrates of Ambracia, 4th BC comic poet Silanus of Ambracia Epigonus of Ambracia 6th-5th BC musician Georgios Karaiskakis...
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    Illustration of a coin of Apollo Agyieus from Ambracia, depicting the conical representation of the god....
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  • Pergamene school Epigonus of Ambracia, 6th century BC Greek musician Epigonion, a musical instrument invented by Epigonus of Ambracia Epigonus of Thessalonica...
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  • Silanus may refer to: Silanus, Sardinia, a town in Sardinia Silanus of Ambracia (fl. 5th century BC), Greek soothsayer Gaius Julius Silanus, Roman senator...
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    Hermione. The bones of Neoptolemus were scattered through the land of Ambracia, which is in the district of Epirus. By Lanassa, granddaughter of Heracles...
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    devoted to him. In 295 BC, Pyrrhus transferred the capital of his kingdom to Ambracia. In 292 BC, he went to war against his former ally and brother-in-law Demetrius...
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    Aegina 30 Chalcis 20 Megara 20 Sparta 16 Sicyon 15 Epidaurus 10 Eretria 7 Ambracia 7 Troezen 5 Naxos 4 Leucas 3 Hermione 3 Styra 2 Cythnus 1 (1) Ceos 2 Melos...
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    in the apex of the cell and on the disc purer white than in female-f. ambracia. Hindwing also above with a complete row of red submarginal spots. (north-eastern...
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  • the land on the sea-coast of Macedonia, together with the provinces of Ambracia, Acarnania, and Amfilochia. Demetrius, according to Plutarch, arrived after...
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    Important colonies of Corinth included Leucada, Astacus, Anactoreum, Actium, Ambracia, and Corcyra - all in modern-day western Greece. The Syracusans also founded...
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    Epirus including Ambracia, most of Akarnania, and western Aetolia. Many inhabitants of the surrounding areas – Kassopaia, Ambracia, parts of Acarnania...
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  • between armies led by Athens and Sparta. In 426, 3,000 hoplites from Ambracia invaded Amphilochian Argos in Acarnania on a gulf of the Ionian Sea and...
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    Arcadian Orchomenans Arcadians 600 Eretria & Styra 600 Plataea 600 Aegina 500 Ambracia 500 Chalcis 400 Mycenae & Tiryns 400 Hermione 300 Potidaea 300 Cephalonia...
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  • 371 BC Cleombrotus II, king of Sparta from 242 to 241 BC Cleombrotus of Ambracia, a character in Plato's Phaedo This disambiguation page lists articles...
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