• The Battle of Lemnos was fought on the island of Lemnos in 73 BC between a Roman fleet and a Mithridatic fleet; it was a decisive event during the Third...
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  • (Mithridatic Wars) Battle of Lemnos (73 BCE) – 73 BC – Third Mithridatic War (Mithridatic Wars) Siege of Gomphi – 48 BC – Caesar's civil war Battle of Pharsalus...
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    stage of prehistory. After more than 90 years of archaeological excavations at Lemnos, nothing has been found that would support a migration from Lemnos to...
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    Mithridatic Wars (category Battles involving the Kingdom of Pontus)
    the Kingdom of Pontus and its allies between 88 and 63 BCE. They are named after Mithridates VI, the King of Pontus during the course of the wars, who...
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    Corfu (redirect from Island of Corfu)
    battle between Greek city states until that time. Thucydides also reports that Korkyra was one of the three great naval powers of fifth century BCE Greece...
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    commander of his garrison in Athens) and Demetrius of Phalerum (the tyrant of Athens) to send a fleet of 20 warships to try and recapture Lemnos. An Athenian...
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    Griffolino of Arezzo tells of Schicchi's impersonation. Inf. XXX, 22–45. Scipio: Roman general (236–183 BCE) who defeated Hannibal at the Battle of Zama. The...
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    Seleucus I Nicator (category Year of birth uncertain)
    Seleucus was 73 years old during the battle, which means 354 BC would be the year of birth. Eusebius of Caesarea, however, mentions the age of 75, and thus...
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    Artemis (redirect from The Hunt of Artemis)
    850–800 BCE Apollo and Artemis kill the children of Niobe, 460–450 BCE by the Niobid Painter. Louvre, Paris. Artemis Hecate, as a goddess protector of the...
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    noun meaning throng of battle, war." R. S. P. Beekes has suggested a Pre-Greek origin of the name. The earliest attested form of the name is the Mycenaean...
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  • Lemnos (Erster Teil)" [New Research on the Language on the Stele of Lemnos]. Journal of Language Relationship (in German). 7 (1). Gorgias Press: 9–32. doi:10...
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    sailing from the mainland port of Ermioni, in the 8th century BCE. Herodotus reports that toward the 6th century BCE, the island belonged to Ermioni...
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    Etruscan language (category Articles containing Imperial Aramaic (700-300 BCE)-language text)
    inscriptions on Lemnos. The Etruscan alphabet is similar to the Greek one. Therefore, linguists have been able to read the inscriptions in the sense of knowing...
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    Apollo (redirect from Cult of Apollo)
    protector of the streets, public places and home entrances. [citation needed] In Hellenistic times, especially during the 5th century BCE, as Apollo...
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    Memnon (category Children of Eos)
    Philostratus The Elder of Lemnos in his work Imagines describes art which depicts Memnon: 1.1.7. MEMNON: This is the army of Memnon; their arms have...
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    Cynuria (category Provinces of Greece)
    of Cynuria, but they were driven out of it subsequently, and it continued in the hands of the Argives till about 547 BCE, when the celebrated battle was...
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    quickly took advantage of its possession of walls and a fleet to seize the islands of Scyros, Imbros, and Lemnos, on which it established cleruchies (citizen...
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    Kythnos (redirect from History of Kythnos)
    forced by pressure of invading tribes to move on and settle in Asia Minor. Herodotus (Bk. viii, 73) records that in the 13th century BCE, another pre-Hellenic...
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    Latins (Italic tribe) (category History of Rome)
    by a few inscriptions discovered near Kamania on the island of Lemnos, was a dialect of Etruscan introduced to the island by commercial adventurers....
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    Lamponeia, Imbros, and Lemnos for the Achaemenid Empire. The area included within the satrapy of Skudra included both the Aegean coast of Thrace, as well as...
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  • 310s BC (redirect from 310s BCE)
    commander of his garrison in Athens) and Demetrius of Phalerum (the tyrant of Athens) to send a fleet of 20 warships to try and recapture Lemnos. An Athenian...
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    Demeter (category Children of Cronus)
    good harvest and increase the fertility of those who partook in the mysteries. Beginning in the 5th century BCE in Asia Minor, Demeter was also considered...
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    years ago, but there is no evidence of permanent settlement of the island until the Neolithic, around 7,000 BCE. Settlements dating to the aceramic Neolithic...
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    Goths (redirect from History of the Goths)
    they ravaged the islands of Lemnos and Scyros, broke through Thermopylae and sacked several cities of southern Greece (province of Achaea) including Athens...
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    Helios (category Rape of Persephone)
    18.239–240 Philostratus of Lemnos, Imagines 1.7.2 Callimachus, Hymn to Artemis 181–182 Powell Barry, p. 182 Lucian, Dialogues of the Gods Aphrodite and...
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    Metamorphoses 35, giving as his sources Menecrates of Xanthos (4th century BCE) and Nicander of Colophon; Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.317–381 provides another...
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  • ISBN 978-0-306-81309-2. Sinclair 2004, p. 40. Hasbrouck 1927, p. 448. Sinclair 2004, pp. 66, 73. Hasbrouck 1927, p. 444. Hasbrouck 1927, pp. 441, 445. "Micro Nation". Ten...
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    stirring music. Soon the eastern coast of Thessaly is left behind. The first major port they reach is Lemnos, where the women, led by their Queen Hypsipyle...
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    Greeks (redirect from History of the Greeks)
    'eastern' gene flow of Anatolian origin at the end of the Neolithic Age. From the 17th to 12th centuries BCE, genetic signatures of Central and East European...
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    gene flow was estimated at 2,300 BCE, and is consistent with the dominant linguistic theories explaining the emergence of the Proto-Greek language. Present-day...
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