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    The Heraion of Samos was a large sanctuary to the goddess Hera, on the island of Samos, Greece, 6 km southwest of the ancient city of Samos (modern Pythagoreion)...
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    Samos (/ˈseɪmɒs/, also US: /ˈsæmoʊs, ˈsɑːmɔːs/; Greek: Σάμος, romanized: Sámos) is a Greek island in the eastern Aegean Sea, south of Chios, north of Patmos...
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    UNESCO World Heritage List along with the nearby Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos, and it was designated as an International Historic Civil Engineering...
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  • Tyrant of Samos: New Light on Archaic Greece. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. p. 47. ISBN 9783515108980. Helmut Kyrieleis: The large kouros of Samos. In:...
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    (/pəˈlɪkrəˌtiːz/; Greek: Πολυκράτης), son of Aeaces, was the tyrant of Samos from the 540s BC to 522 BC. He had a reputation as both a fierce warrior...
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    Herodotus calls Rhoecus of Samos its first architect. It was the first of the massive Ionic temples. Samos. The new Heraion was built in 525 BC and it...
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    and the Cave of the Apocalypse on Patmos, the Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos in Samos, the Nea Moni of Chios, the island of Delos, and the Medieval...
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  • Imbrasos (category Landforms of Samos)
    island of Samos. The source of the river is located on mount Ambelos, near the village of Pyrgos [de]. From there it flows southeast to Myli [de] and then...
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  • agrégation de lettres in 1875. A member of the French School at Athens from 1875 to 1879, he directed the excavations of the Heraion of Samos and purchased...
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  • used the epithet: Alexander Balas The term was found in an epigram at Heraion of Samos and was used to describe emperor Titus. Parthian rulers adopted the...
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    Vitex agnus-castus (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    textual evidence supporting the significance of the chaste tree at the Heraion of Samos during the 6th–3rd centuries BCE. In a Philistine temple at Gath, an...
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  • rebuilt Perinthus, founded by colonists from Samos Rhaedestus[citation needed], founded by colonists from Samos Serrion Teichos Selymbria, modern Silivri...
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  • monnayage de Massalia 525/520 - 460 av. J.C., Fribourg 1978 (Typos, 3) [= Dissertation] with Hermann J. Kienast: Samos, 3. Der Nordbau im Heraion von Samos, Bonn...
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  • Hephaestia, Lemnos, North Aegean Hagia Triada, Crete Heraion of Argos, Peloponnese Heraion of Samos, Samos, North Aegean Ialysos at Rhodes, South Aegean Ierapetra...
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    have been found as re-gifted votive objects at two Greek sites, the Heraion of Samos and in the temple of Apollo at Eretria on Euboea. The inscriptions...
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  • History of Samos, 800–188 BC. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 71–72. ISBN 9780198148685. Carty, Aideen (2015). Polycrates, Tyrant of Samos: New Light...
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    Hipparchos. They sought to surpass two famous contemporary temples, the Heraion of Samos and the second Temple of Artemis at Ephesus. Designed by the architects...
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    his son, And half the seed of Europe, one by one." The myth at the Heraion of Samos is that of Hera. According to the local tradition, the goddess was...
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    Ancient Greek temple (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    system that was to characterise the Ionic system later on, e.g. the Heraion II on Samos. Thus, even at an early point, the axes of the naos walls aligned...
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    Anubis. The Temple of Hera, circa 500 BC, is a rebuilding of an earlier Heraion on the site. The House of Dionysus is a luxurious second-century private...
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    of the ancient Greek goddess Hera", observes the excavator of the Heraion of Samos, Helmut Kyrieleis. In modern times, the pomegranate still holds strong...
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    and sanctuaries, such as Olympia, recently founded in Delphi or the Heraion of Samos, first of the colossal free-standing temples, were richly provided...
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  • Heritage. "Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos". whc.unesco.org. Retrieved 2016-09-08. "Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos". UNESCO. Retrieved 26 June 2010...
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  • Heraea (Arcadia) Heraean Games Heraeum (Thrace) Heraion of Argos Heraion of Perachora Heraion of Samos Heraklas Herakles (Euripides) Herald and Trumpet...
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    by Athena; fragment of ivory relief plaque from the Heraion of Samos Archaeological Museum of Samos E 1 (sixth century BC) Fig. 9. Winged curl-haired Gorgon...
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    below. Jantzen (1951). "Die Bedeutung der Greifenprotomen aus dem Heraion von Samos". Festschrift für Hans Jantzen; also Jantzen (1955) GG. Cited by Goldman...
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    Corfu (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Archaic Heraion Project at Mon Repos is a project that has undertaken the task of digitising the architectural fragments found at the Corfu Heraion with...
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    celery mericarps dated to the seventh century BCE were recovered in the Heraion of Samos. However, they note A. graveolens grows wild in these areas, it is...
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    Italy, Thrace and on the Black Sea. Thera founded Cyrene and Andros, and Samos founded multiple colonies in the Northern Aegean. Numerous colonies were...
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  • Harz Water Management System Cultural 623  Greece Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos Cultural 595  Mexico El Tajin, Pre-Hispanic City Cultural 631  Poland...
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