Helen of Troy (redirect from Helen of Sparta)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Roman Republic (redirect from Res Pvblica Romana)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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