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    Cynosarges (Greek: Κυνόσαργες Kynosarges) was a famous temple of Heracles, public gymnasium, and surrounding grove located just outside the walls of Ancient...
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    Gate of Diochares, leading to the Lyceum. The Diomean Gate, leading to Cynosarges and the deme Diomea. On the North side: the Acharnian Gate, leading to...
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    there were three great public gymnasia: the Academy, the Lyceum and the Cynosarges, each of which was dedicated to a deity whose statue adorned the structure...
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    were called dogs was that Antisthenes taught in the Cynosarges gymnasium at Athens. The word Cynosarges means the place of the white dog. Later Cynics also...
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    because the first Cynic, Antisthenes, taught in the Cynosarges gymnasium at Athens. The word cynosarges means the "place of the white dog". It seems certain...
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    stone. Pausanias indicated that an altar to Alcmene had been built in the Cynosarges in Athens, alongside altars to Heracles, Hebe, and Iolaus. Pausanias also...
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    situated only eleven or twelve stadia from the city, and not far from Cynosarges. It possessed a temple of Aphrodite, and also apparently one of Hermaphroditus...
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    Greece dedicated to her. There was an altar for her in Athens at the Cynosarges. This site also contained gymnasium and altars for Herakles and joint...
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    spring of Kallirrhoe, the sanctuary of Pankrates (a local hero), and the Cynosarges public gymnasium nearby. Originally, since the 6th century BC, a racecourse...
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    public in 2009. School of Aristotle Lyceum movement Platonic Academy Cynosarges Theophrastus Morison, William. "The Lyceum". Internet Encyclopedia of...
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    when he died at Athens, c. 365 BCE. He is said to have lectured at the Cynosarges, a gymnasium for the use of Athenians born of foreign mothers, near the...
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  • Metageitnion (which would fall in late July or early August), at the Cynosarges gymnasium at the demos Diomeia outside the walls of Athens, in a sanctuary...
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    furthermore the family appear to have lived in an immigrant district of Athens, Cynosarges, outside the city walls. However, in an early example of his cunning,...
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    the area of Neos Kosmos may have been the location of the gymnasium Cynosarges. Neos Kosmos is south of the historic centre of the city. Andrea Syngrou...
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    and Attalid troops in a battle outside the Dipylon Gate and encamped at Cynosarges, made a series of unsuccessful assaults on Eleusis, Piraeus, and Athens...
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    Ardittos Hill, next to the current Panathinaiko Stadium. This area was named Cynosarges in antiquity and the spring of Kallirrhóē was located there. The stream...
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    and Attalid troops in a battle outside the Dipylon Gate and encamped at Cynosarges. After setting fire to the sanctuaries and tombs outside the city walls...
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    [ðuɾˈɣuti]), is a small neighborhood of Athens, Greece. It is named after the Cynosarges which is thought to have been in the area in antiquity. It is served by...
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  • the eastern sector of the city, and the external portion contained the Cynosarges. It was located south of the Ilisus, between Alopece to the south and...
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  • called Phalanthus, from his baldness. He set up his own school in the Cynosarges gymnasium (a place associated with Cynic philosophy) and attracted many...
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  • dead, and afterwards buried in Alopece near the temple of Heracles at Cynosarges. It has been suggested [according to whom?]that Anchimolus was the first...
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  • Cynaegirus Cynaethus Cynegeticus Cynicism (philosophy) Cynisca Cynortas Cynosarges Cynosura (Laconia) Cynurus Cynus Cyparissus Cyparissus (Phocis) Cyphus...
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  • existed during interwar under the name Thriamvos Harokopou and Thriamvos Cynosarges. This club was dissolved during world war and the club refounded in 1967...
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