• Hiero (Greek: Ἱέρων, Hiéron) is a minor work by Xenophon, set as a dialogue between Hiero, tyrant of Syracuse, Magna Graecia, and the lyric poet Simonides...
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  • Hiero (redirect from Hieron)
    6 Hieroglyphics (group), also known as Hiero, an American hip-hop group Hiéron du Val d'Or, a French esoteric Catholic secret society Hiero (project),...
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  • Hiero I of Syracuse (redirect from Hieron I)
    Siculus XI 38, 48, 49, 51, 53, 66, 67; Xenophon, Hiero, 6. 2; E. Lübbert, Syrakus zur Zeit des Gelon und Hieron (1875). N. Luraghi, Tirannidi archaiche...
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  • instance of this penalty in fact being carried out. In his dialogue Hieron, Xenophon claims that the right to kill a moichos was enshrined in law not just...
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  • soldier Xenophon (c. 430–354 BC). Other common titles for this work are De equis alendis and The Art of Horsemanship. The other work by Xenophon on horsemanship...
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    coins of the town as well as in manuscripts of Herodotus's Histories, Xenophon's Hellenica, Arrian's Anabasis, and other works. Except for the Maiden's...
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  • Peloponnesian war, placing them to 804 or 821 BC. The 4th century BC Greek general Xenophon, on the other hand, claimed that he was also responsible for the creation...
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    denounced the rule of tyrants (i.e. rulers like Hieron) in an ode composed shortly after a visit to Hieron's sumptuous court in 476–75 BC (Pythian 11). Pindar's...
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    sources comes from Xenophon's Anabasis, since the march of the Ten Thousand under Xenophon's command ended at Pergamon in 400/399 BC. Xenophon, who calls the...
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  • 'school' ζυγόν zugón 'yoke', ᾠόν ōión 'egg', ναυτικόν nautikón 'fleet', ἱερόν hierón 'temple' (the last two are derived from adjectives) Words ending in -ιον...
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    highlights the fertility and richness of this plain, as do Herodotus, Xenophon, Polybius, and Livy. Historians such as Walter Leaf have speculated on...
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    there, especially if we are to think of him as spending his last days at Hieron's court. It is very remarkable that no ancient writer expressly says he ever...
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    Apparently, Pytheas said that tides ended at the "sacred promontory" (Hieron akrōtērion, or Sagres Point), and from there to Gades is said to be 5 days'...
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    level of wealth and size by this time. Writing in the 5th century BC, Xenophon refers to Colossae as "a populous city, wealthy and of considerable magnitude"...
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    on Samothrace also represented a Thracian ritual tradition, such as: a hieron whose designed emphasised activities within it, and had a hearth altar as...
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    there, especially if we are to think of him as spending his last days at Hieron's court. It is very remarkable that no ancient writer expressly says he ever...
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    Mantineia 79 § 464 BC Stadion Xenophon Corinth Eusebius 79 § 464 BC Boxing Diagoras Rhodes 79 § 464 BC Pentathlon Xenophon Corinth 79 § 464 BC Boys' Boxing...
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  • Herodotus calls it Cius of Mysia; and also Xenophon, from which it appears that Mysia, even in Xenophon's time, extended at least as far east as the head...
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    Eusene, Gadilon,Garzoubanthon, Gaziura, Gozalena, Heracleium, Hermonassa, Hieron Oros, Hyssus, Ibora, Ischopolis, Kabeira, Karoussa, Kizari, Komana Pontika...
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    the name of the location: "Delphi says ..." etc. Implication was common: hieron, "the sacred [pronouncement]," fatus meus, "my fate," etc. The other type...
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  • Vol. 29.1.1. Xenophon. Anabasis. Vol. 7.2.28. Xenophon. Anabasis. Vol. 5.15. Xenophon. Hellenica. Vol. 1.1.21. Plutarch, Alc. 30; Xenophon. Hellenica....
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    18866/j.ctt1pc5gxc.27. Greenwalt, Crawford H. (1995). "Sardis in the Age of Xenophon". Pallas. 43 (1): 125–145. doi:10.3406/palla.1995.1367. Gadbery, Laura...
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    Tarsus was the seat of a Persian satrapy from 400 BC onward. Indeed, Xenophon records that in 401 BC, when Cyrus the Younger marched against Babylon...
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    site's history. Gordion is mentioned in the following ancient sources: Xenophon Hellenica 1.4.1; Hellenica Oxyrhynchia 21.6; Plutarch Life of Alexander...
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    century) — physician Artemidorus (2nd century CE) — diviner and author Xenophon (2nd–3rd century) — novelist Maximus (4th century) — neoplatonic philosopher...
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  • Hipparchicus (category Works by Xenophon)
    soldier Xenophon (circa 430 – 354 BC). Other common titles for this work include The cavalry commander and The cavalry general. The other work by Xenophon on...
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    48 (4): 421–5. doi:10.1001/archneur.1991.00530160091020. PMID 2012518. Hierons R (1993). "Charcot and his visits to Britain". BMJ. 307 (6919): 1589–91...
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  • Pericles (1894) and Themistocles (1881 ; 3rd ed. enlarged, 1892); Xenophon's 'Hieron' (1883; 3rd ed. 1888) and 'Œconomicus' (1884; 4th ed. 1889); and Cicero's...
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  • 339b1, 14.36, 23.365, Scholia on Lycophron 276, 581. Thucydides 8.101.3, Xenophon, Hellenica 1.1.2. Cook (1973) 86–7. Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of...
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  • Xenopatra Xenophanes Xenophilus Xenophon Xenophon (son of Euripides) Xenophon of Aegium Xenophon of Corinth Xenophon of Ephesus Xenos Xerxes' Pontoon...
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