Colonus or Kolonos (/kəˈloʊnəs/; Ancient Greek: Κολωνός, translit. Kolōnós) was a deme of the phyle Aegeis, of ancient Attica, celebrated as the deme...
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Middle Ages Colonus (spider), a genus of jumping spiders Kolonos, a modern neighborhood in Athens Colonus (Attica) (also Hippeios Colonus, Colonus Hippius...
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a wealthy member of the rural deme (small community) of Hippeios Colonus in Attica, which was to become a setting for one of his plays; and he was probably...
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Social War (91–88 BC) Colaeus Collytus Colonae (Leontis) Colonides Colonus (Attica) Colophon Colossus of Rhodes Colossus of the Naxians Colotes Columbus...
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Kolonos (category Attica geography stubs)
Hippeios Colonus. The district hosts a multi-year football club, Attikos F.C., that was founded in 1919. Kolonos is the site of ancient Colonus, a deme...
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Daedalus (category Mythological people from Attica)
at Colonus 472 Pausanias, 9.3.2 Apollodorus, 3.15.9; Tzetzes, Chiliades 1.490; Scholiast on Plato, Ion 121a Scholia on Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 468...
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[citation needed] The Dionysia was originally a rural festival in Eleutherae, Attica (Διονύσια τὰ κατ' ἀγρούς – Dionysia ta kat' agrous), probably celebrating...
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Theseus (category Mythological people from Attica)
slaying of the Minotaur, half man and half bull. He then goes on to unite Attica under Athenian rule: the synoikismos ('dwelling together'). As the unifying...
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Metion (category Mythological people from Attica)
Plato, Ion 533a; Scholia on Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 472 Scholia on Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 468 Apollodorus, 3.15.5; Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio...
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"singing") was a legendary king of Thrace. He was described as having come to Attica either as a bard, a warrior, or a priest of Demeter and Dionysus. Eumolpus...
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Merope (mythology) (category Mythological people from Attica)
Plato, Ion 533a; Scholia ad Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 472 Scholia ad Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 468 & 472 Scholia ad Plato, The Republic p. 529 Pausanias...
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Platonic Academy (category Ancient Greek archaeological sites in Attica)
site is free.[unreliable source?] The site of the Academy is located near Colonus, approximately 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) north of Athens' Dipylon gates...
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coastline on the Gulf of Euboea. It bordered on Megaris (now West Attica) in the south, Attica in the southeast, Euboea in the northeast, Opuntian Locris (now...
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Mycenaean tomb) Aegina (Temple of Aphaea, Temple of Zeus), Attica Aigeira, West Greece Aigosthena, Attica Akraiphnion, Central Greece Akrotiri at Santorini, South...
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Kolokynthou (category Attica geography stubs)
with the Greek word kolokythi ("zucchini") that was ordinary in the gardens. Today this area is an industrial zone between Colonus and Peristeri. v t e...
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University Press. Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus in Sophocles. Antigone. The Women of Trachis. Philoctetes. Oedipus at Colonus Edited and translated by Hugh Lloyd-Jones...
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was able to gather first-hand documentation from theater performance in Attica, which is inaccessible to scholars today. His work is therefore invaluable...
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received Obie Awards for his roles as a preacher in the musical The Gospel at Colonus, and as Hoke Colburn in the play Driving Miss Daisy, respectively. Freeman...
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1985). "'The Gospel At Colonus', On 'Great Performances'". The New York Times. Retrieved October 29, 2014. "The Gospel at Colonus". Internet Broadway Database...
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by his first wife, Attica, married Quintus Haterius. Vipsania M. f. L. n. Agrippina, a daughter of Agrippa by his first wife, Attica. Her first husband...
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Palamaon (category Mythological people from Attica)
Plato, Ion 533a; Scholia on Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 472 Scholia on Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 468, 472 Scholia on Plato, The Republic p. 529 Plutarch...
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Research Center in Egypt 2 (1963): 117–24. Scholia ad Sophocli Oedipus at Colonus 91; Xenis p. 72 Robert E. Meagher, p. 142 Athenaeus, Scholars at Dinner...
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s.v. Pandia. Meagher, p. 142 n. 137; Scholia on Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus 91 (Xenis, pp. 70–71). Müller, p. 531 British Museum IOC.282; Errington...
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Iphinoe (mythology) (category Mythological people from Attica)
Pausanias, 1.39.6 & 1.41.3 Pausanias, 1.43.4 Scholia on Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 468 Apollonius Rhodius, 1.702 ff.; Valerius Flaccus, 2.162 & 327; Hyginus...
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becomes king of the Zhou dynasty of China. Sophocles' tragic play Oedipus at Colonus is performed posthumously. It is produced by his grandson (also called...
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Mythologiae 2.9, edition of 1651, pp. 173–174. Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1051 ("Rites they to none betray, / Ere on his lips is laid / Secrecy's...
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Antigone, Women of Trachis, Oedipus Rex, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus. For almost fifty years, Sophocles was the most celebrated playwright in...
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Floria Matrona, aged forty years and five days. Quintus Petillius Q. f. Colonus, from Hispania Baetica, was a scribe employed by the curule aediles. Publius...
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L021) Volume II. Antigone. The Women of Trachis. Philoctetes. Oedipus at Colonus ISBN 0-674-99558-9 L483) Volume III. Fragments ISBN 0-674-99532-5 L012)...
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