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    the island of Thasos. Because of his influence in the Thracian region, Thucydides wrote, he was sent as a strategos (general) to Thasos in 424 BC. During...
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    carrying a torch as a moon-goddess and she is identified with Hecate. Polo, in Thasos, with inscriptions and statues from the Hellenistic and Roman period. The...
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    Epigraphy (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Louvre Ma 696 (Sculpture), Relief Plaques from Thasos; see also classification on Poinikastas:"Thasos, inscriptions" - IG vol. xii. 8 no. 358. Cf. An...
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    Pelasgians (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    of Attica, Mounts Hymettus and Brilettus/Brilessus, Lycabettus Hill, the deme of Gargettus, etc.; or its equivalent "-ss-": Larissa, Mount Parnassus, the...
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    (equal freedom of speech) democracy was first organized into about 130 demes, which became the basic civic element. The 10,000 citizens exercised their...
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  • Hector Hecuba Hecuba (play) Hedea of Tralles Hedone Hedylogos Hegemon of Thasos Hegemone Hegesandridas Hegesias of Cyrene Hegesias of Sinope Hegesinus of...
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    tribes. A new Council of 500 was instituted, with members from each deme represented. Demes were also given the power to determine their own members (which...
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    no way of gaining entry into a deme or phratry. Blok suggests that the child might have instead been enrolled in the deme and phratry of the maternal grandfather...
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