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- Abydos, Egypt (9715 bytes)
2: ...he Greeks named it Abydos, like the city on the [[Hellespont]]; the modern [[Arabic language|Arabic]] name is ...
6: ...ew temple of [[Nectanebo I]] in the 30th dynasty. From [[Ptolemaic Period|Ptolemaic]] times the place ...
10: ...ned the way" to the realm of the dead, increasing from the first dynasty to the time of the 12th dynas...
14: ...uilt here on one site were nine or ten in number, from the 1st dynasty to the [[twenty-sixth dynasty o...
19: ...was about 40 x 50 ft. inside, with stone gateways front and back, showing that it was of the processio... - Ancient Greece (23806 bytes)
2: ...t are now [[Albania]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Egypt]], [[France]], [[Libya]], [[Romania]], [[Spain]], and [[U...
4: ...izations, while Greek-speaking, were so different from later Greek cultures that they should be classe...
14: [[Image:vcycladic.jpg|thumb|left|Marble statuette from the Cycladic islands, 3000 BC]]
15: ...th century BC is a "[[Greek Dark Ages|dark age]]" from which no primary texts, and only scant archaeol...
20: ..., where every island, valley and plain is cut off from its neighbours by the sea or mountain ranges. - Alcibiades (7778 bytes)
8: From [[Protagoras]], [[Prodicus]], and others he lea...
18: From this time he took a prominent part in Athenian ...
19: Originally friendly to [[Sparta]], he subsequently became the l...
33: ...ont]], he defeated the Spartan fleet at [[Abydos, Hellespont|Abydos]] ([[411 BC]]) and [[Cyzicus]] ([[410 BC]]...
37: ...t [[Antiochus]], led the Athenians to dismiss him from his command. - Alexander the Great (42049 bytes)
9: ... Olympias was impregnated not by Philip, who was afraid of her and her affinity for sleeping in the co...
11: ...es]] through [[Caranus]] and his mother descended from [[Aeacus]] through [[Neoptolemus]] and [[Achill...
14: ... of Persia. [[Plutarch]] mentions an irate letter from Alexander to Darius III, where Alexander blames...
16: ...n a campaign to solidify control of Greece and confront the Persian Empire.
23: ...all coastal cities and denying them to his enemy. From Pamphylia onward the coast held no major ports,... - Antalcidas (1665 bytes)
3: ...sian]] [[satrap]] of [[Sardis]], to undermine the friendly relations then existing between [[Athens]] ...
7: ...is naval operations in the neighbourhood of the [[Hellespont]] was such that [[Athens]] was glad to accept ter... - Peloponnesian War (15884 bytes)
7: ...tween Corinth and [[Corcyra]], preventing Corinth from invading Corcyra at the [[Battle of Sybota]], a...
11: ... Athens drew its immense wealth from tribute paid from these islands. Thus, the two powers were relati...
15: ...ped up from the soil by the thousands of refugees from Attica hiding out in Athens during a siege by t...
23: ...und the Peloponnese. While the Spartans refrained from action themselves, some of their allies began t...
29: ...eir distant allies in [[Sicily]] was under attack from [[Syracuse, Italy|Syracuse]]. The people of Syr... - Hipparchus (astronomer) (50785 bytes)
4: ...e accumulated over centuries by the [[Chaldeans]] from [[Babylonia]]. He was also the first to compil...
8: ...om [[Strabo]]'s ''Geographia'' ("Geography"), and from [[Pliny the Elder]]'s ''[[Pliny's Natural Histo...
14: ...st observations. Hipparchus obtained information from [[Alexandria]] as well as [[Babylon]], but it i...
18: ...tes observations to him from Rhodes in the period from [[141 BC]] to [[127 BC]].
20: ...mentioned about 14 books, but which is only known from references by later authors. His famous star c... - Hipparchus (50784 bytes)
3: ...e accumulated over centuries by the [[Chaldeans]] from [[Babylonia]]. He was also the first to compil...
7: ...om [[Strabo]]'s ''Geographia'' ("Geography"), and from [[Pliny the Elder]]'s ''[[Pliny's Natural Histo...
13: ...st observations. Hipparchus obtained information from [[Alexandria]] as well as [[Babylon]], but it i...
17: ...tes observations to him from Rhodes in the period from [[141 BC]] to [[127 BC]].
19: ...mentioned about 14 books, but which is only known from references by later authors. His famous star c... - Aries (2808 bytes)
16: ...elle fell off into the sea which later became the Hellespont. On reaching safety, Phrixis (rather ungratefully...
21: ...odiac]] ([[March 21]]–[[April 19]]) differs from the astronomical constellation and the Hindu as...
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