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    forth". Pausanias traveled to Sparta to visit the sanctuary, dedicated to Hilaeira and Phoebe, in order to see the relic for himself. Pausanias also says...
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    Areus I (category Agiad kings of Sparta)
    official support, such as in 303, when Sparta sent him to help Tarentum against Lucanians and the Roman Republic. Pausanias further tells that Cleonymus was...
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    Spartan character", but had no important cult in Sparta; and he never occurs on Spartan coins. Pausanias gives two examples of his cult, both of them conjointly...
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    Tyrtaeus (section Sparta)
    invented to denigrate Sparta, which in the views of Athenians could not have had a talented poet of its own. According to Pausanias, the Athenians sent...
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    man, in my judgement, of Greece," and Pausanias records an honorary poem from his tomb: By my counsels was Sparta shorn of her glory,   And holy Messene...
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    Rhodes, Argonautica 4.1505 ff. Pausanias, 2.16.2 Apollodorus, 2.4.4 Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.177 Pausanias, 2.16.3 Pausanias, 2.15.4, 2.16.2–3 & 2.18.1 Hesiod...
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    storms and tossing ships on the sea. He is referred to as the "savior of Sparta" in a Homeric paean, or poem. Eurus is also called the "hot wind" by Nonnus...
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  • Black soup (category Culture of Sparta)
    Black soup was a regional cuisine of ancient Sparta, made with boiled pork meat and blood, using only salt and vinegar to flavour. The soup was well known...
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    presence." He was equated with many foreign weather gods, permitting Pausanias to observe "That Zeus is king in heaven is a saying common to all men"...
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    Polyaenus, Strategems, 2.27.1 Pausanias, Description of Greece, Paus. 6.18.1 Perseus Encyclopedia, Idaeus Pausanias, Description of Greece, 6.12.2 Pius...
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    after the Sparta he writes about (and a full millennium separates him from the earliest events he records); and even though he visited Sparta, many of...
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    of Constantinople. Lesser supplementary sources include Curtius Rufus, Pausanias, Pliny, and the Byzantine encyclopedia the Suda. In the field of philosophy...
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  • "Despoina", who obviously originally had the shape or the head of a mare. Pausanias mentions animal-headed statues of Demeter and of other gods in Arcadia...
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    The Roman Republic (Latin: Res publica Romana [ˈreːs ˈpuːblɪka roːˈmaːna]) was the era of classical Roman civilization beginning with the overthrow of...
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    Latin translation of Eusebius' work) dates the foundation to 679 BC; Pausanias and Polybius connect it to the first Messenian war, therefore at an early...
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    Correnti, Santi; Santino Spartà (2007). Le strade di Catania. Rome: Newton & Compton. Various. Enciclopedia di Catania. Tringale. Ilaria Di Pietra, Catania. Viaggi...
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    archaeological record. The most respected form of art, according to Pliny or Pausanias, were individual, mobile paintings on wooden boards, described as panel...
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    Pindar, Nemea 4.79. Pausanias, Description of Greece 3.19.11. Pausanias, Description of Greece 3.19.13. Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 22.8. Strabo...
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    second in a mock battle. The story was re-enacted by the Makhlyes and Ausean tribes in an annual festival. Pausanias in his DESCRIPTION OF GREECE writes:...
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  • Reichenau: Chronicle (year 1044), pp. 75–76. "CARLO III d'Angiò Durazzo, re di Napoli, detto della Pace, o il Piccolo in "Dizionario Biografico"". Monaci...
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    ISBN 9004122656. "Pausanias, Description of Greece, 8.14.5". Archived from the original on 28 April 2022. Retrieved 20 February 2021. "Pausanias, Description...
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    Peloponnese and also by its colonies, Taras and Herakleia in Magna Graecia. Sparta was the seat of ancient Laconia. Laconian is attested in inscriptions on...
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    of Julius Caesar, Rimini, Italy Portrait at the Archaeological Museum of Sparta Bronze statue at the Porta Palatina in Turin Bust in the Archaeological...
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  • offering to explain the stories behind the various sites for a price. Pausanias, a keen tourist in 2nd century CE Greece, wrote, "even the guides of the...
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    10 October 2019. Murder: Cornelius Nepos XXI.3; Illness: Justin 16.2. Pausanias 1.7.1 Bennett, Chris. "Argaeus". Egyptian Royal Genealogy. Retrieved 10...
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    Second Persian invasion of Greece, a Greek army led by the Spartan general Pausanias captured the city which remained an independent, yet subordinate, city...
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    while pseudo-Apollodorus (Bibliotheke 2.7.8) gives the name Agelaus and Pausanias (2.21.3) names Tyrsenus as the son of Heracles by "the Lydian woman"....
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    reigned 14 years. Croesus was renowned for his wealth; Herodotus and Pausanias noted that his gifts were preserved at Delphi. The fall of Croesus had...
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    Peloponnese. His exact route is uncertain, but it took in Epidaurus; Pausanias describes temples built there by Hadrian, and his statue – in heroic nudity –...
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    Plutarch, Life of Solon 1.4 Pausanias, Description of Greece 1.30.1 "Ancient Greek Poleis Systems of Government: Athens and Sparta" (PDF). p. 6-7. Retrieved...
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