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    Eretria (/əˈriːtriə/; Greek: Ερέτρια, Erétria, Ancient Greek: Ἐρέτρια, Erétria, literally 'city of the rowers') is a town in Euboea, Greece, facing the...
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  • Eretria is an ancient city in Greece. Eretria may also refer to: Eretria (moth), a genus of moth Eretria (Shannara), a character in the Shannara series...
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    Philoxenus of Eretria (Greek: Φιλόξενος ὁ Ἐρετριεύς) was a painter from Eretria. He was a disciple of Nicomachus of Thebes, whose speed in painting he...
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  • Eretria is a fictional character from the Shannara series of fantasy novels by Terry Brooks and their television adaptation. In the latter, she is portrayed...
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    Darius the Great primarily in order to punish the city-states of Athens and Eretria. These cities had supported the cities of Ionia during their revolt against...
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    The Eretria Painter was an ancient Greek Attic red-figure vase painter. He worked in the final quarter of the 5th century BC. The Eretria Painter is assumed...
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    acclaim and the Goya Award for Best New Actress. In 2015, she was cast as Eretria in the television series The Shannara Chronicles. Baquero was born in Barcelona...
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  • The naval Battle of Eretria, between Sparta and Athens, took place in September 411 BC, off the coast of Euboea. During the spring of 411 BC, the Eretrians...
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  • Achaeus of Eretria (Ancient Greek: Ἀχαιός ὁ Ἐρετριεύς; born 484 BC in Euboea) was a Greek playwright and author of tragedies and satyr plays. He is variously...
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  • called the Ellcrys. The series chronicles the journey of Wil, Amberle, and Eretria who, with the guidance of the last druid Allanon, must go on a quest to...
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    The siege of Eretria took place in 490 BC, during the first Persian invasion of Greece. The city of Eretria, on Euboea, was besieged by a strong Persian...
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    Greek city-states also took part. In 490 BC, Eretria was utterly ruined by the Persian armies. Eretria, Athens, and other Ionian Greek states had previously...
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    response to Athenian involvement in the Ionian Revolt, when Athens and Eretria sent a force to support the cities of Ionia in their attempt to overthrow...
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  • Apollon Eretria Football Club is a Greek football club, based in Eretria, Euboea, Greece. Euboea FCA champion: 4 1986–87, 1994–95, 1996–97, 2017–18 Euboea...
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    military conflict between the two ancient Greek city states Chalcis and Eretria in Euboea which took place in the early Archaic period, between c. 710...
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  • Trilogy details the quest of Jair and Brin Ohmsford, the children of Wil and Eretria, to save the Four Lands from the evil magic within a tome called the Ildatch...
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    39°17′26″N 22°36′26″E / 39.290562°N 22.607216°E / 39.290562; 22.607216 Eretria (Ancient Greek: Ἐρέτρια) was a town of ancient Thessaly, in the district...
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    Theseus carries Antiope off, from the pediment of Apollo's temple at Eretria, 500s BC....
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  • lived 4th century BC) was tyrant of Eretria in Euboea. After Plutarch had been expelled from the tyranny of Eretria by Phocion in 350 BC, popular government...
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  • Themison (Ancient Greek: Θεμίσων; lived 4th century BC) was a tyrant of Eretria who in 366 BC assisted the exiles of Oropus in recovering possession of...
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    Leucinodes (redirect from Eretria (moth))
    Lineodini Genus: Leucinodes Guenée, 1854 Synonyms Sceliodes Guenée, 1854 Daraba Walker, 1859 Eretria Snellen, 1880 Leuctinodes South, 1897 (misspelling)...
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    Linus teaches the letters to Musaeus on the tondo of a kylix. Eretria Painter, circa 440/35 BC. Paris, Louvre....
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  • 1830 Synonyms Phorocera angusta Macquart, 1851 Doria nigripalpis Rondani, 1859 Eretria excitata Robineau-Desvoidy, 1863 Phorocera delecta Meigen, 1838...
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    The Archaeological Museum of Eretria is a museum in Eretria, in the Euboea regional unit of Central Greece. The museum was established in 1960, but was...
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    or early 3rd-century BC Hellenistic painting, perhaps by Philoxenus of Eretria or Apelles. This mosaic represents a battle in which Alexander of Macedonia...
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    Cnacadion near the Spartan frontier, had her own sacred laurel trees. At Eretria the identity of an excavated 7th- and 6th-century BCE temple to Apollo...
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  • Plutarch (Greek: Πλούταρχος; fl. 4th century BC) was a tyrant of Eretria in Euboea. Whether he was the immediate successor of Themison, and also whether...
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  • Menedemus of Eretria (Greek: Μενέδημος ὁ Ἐρετριεύς; 345/44 – 261/60 BC) was a Greek philosopher and founder of the Eretrian school. He learned philosophy...
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    goddess was worshipped near Elymnion or on the mountain Dirfi. Coins from Eretria verify that the citizens imitated the wedding of Zeus with Hera. Athens...
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    Darius's life was his expedition to subjugate Greece and punish Athens and Eretria for their participation in the Ionian Revolt. Although his campaign ultimately...
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