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- 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: ...Herodotus]] "Histories", [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]] "Description of Greece", [[Diodorus]] "Biblioth...
20: ..., where every island, valley and plain is cut off from its neighbours by the sea or mountain ranges. - Agathias (4785 bytes)
5: ...on the ''Periegetes'' of [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]].
7: ...[[Narses]], against the [[Goths]], [[Vandals]], [[Franks]] and [[Persians]].
9: ... and reliable, though he gathered his information from eye- witnesses, and not, as Procopius, in the e...
11: ...nowledge of facts; the work, however, is valuable from the importance of the events of which it treats...
13: ...security that form a document in the history of [[freedom of thought]]— to [[Edessa]], where jus... - Agathon (3124 bytes)
1: ...m]]'' and ''[[Protagoras (Plato)|Protagoras]]''. Pausanias followed Agathon to the court of Archelaus, king...
2: original, not, as usually, borrowed from mythological subjects.
4: ...is intimacy with Aristophanes doubtless saved him from many well-deserved strictures, though in one of...
6: Agathon was a friend of [[Euripides]], accompanying him to the cou...
12: ...and Influence on Civilization'', volume 1, by [[Alfred Bates]]. ([[London]]: [[Historical Publishing C... - Agis II (2300 bytes)
1: ...laus]]. He ruled with his [[Agiad]] co-monarch [[Pausanias of Sparta|Pausanius]].
10: ...d [[Elis]], forcing the Eleans to acknowledge the freedom of their [[perioeci]] (citizens of cities co...
11: ...ames]] and sacrifices. He fell ill on his return from [[Delphi]], where he had gone to dedicate a tit... - Alcamenes (1026 bytes)
5: [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]] says (v. 10. 8) that he was the author of one o... - 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,... - Amyntas I of Macedon (1062 bytes)
4: ... [[Thucydides]] ii. 100; [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]] ix. 40). - Rhianus (1241 bytes)
1: ...istomenes]], and used by [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]] in his fourth book as a trustworthy authority. ... - Ephesus (4587 bytes)
1: ...rkey]]). It was founded by colonists principally from [[Athens]]. The [[ruins]] of Ephesus are a majo...
5: ...ent world, according to [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]] (4.31.8) and one of the [[Seven Wonders of the ...
13: ... ([[Acts]] 19:23-41), and wrote [[1 Corinthians]] from Ephesus. Later Paul [[Epistle to Ephesians|wrot...
15: The [[house of the Virgin Mary]], about 7 km from [[Selēµ«]], is said to have been the last home ...
30: ...]], whose facade has been carefully reconstructed from all original pieces, was built by a Roman in me... - Ancient Olympic Games (9077 bytes)
2: ...reece|Greek]] town of [[Olympia, Greece|Olympia]] from (historically) as early as [[776 BC]] to [[393]...
10: ... of [[Delphi]] – to try and save his people from war in the [[9th century BC]]. The prophetess a...
12: ...arioteer [[Myrtilus]], who switched the lynchpins from Oenomaus' chariot with pins made of beeswax: pr...
21: ... first written accounts of the Olympic Games date from [[776 BC]], although it is sure that these Game...
24: The word ''stadium'' is derived from this foot race. - Zeus (17267 bytes)
8: ...cal Zeus also derives certain iconographic traits from the cultures of the [[ancient Near East]], such...
23: ... an altar to Zeus made not of stone, but of ash - from the accumulated remains of many centuries' wort...
25: ...could be found at any number of [[Greek temple]]s from [[Asia Minor]] to [[Sicily]]. Certain modes of ...
37: ... shadows were ever cast ([[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]] 8.38). On the other hand, he is connected with ...
42: ...g on whether you believe [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]] or [[Strabo]]. The hero [[Amphiaraus]] was hono... - Atlantis (41399 bytes)
2: ...r been confirmed. The first mentions we have are from the [[classical Greek]] philosopher [[Plato]], ...
7: ...dfather of [[Critias]]. And Critias learned of it from his grandfather also named Critias, son of Drop...
17: ...us]], to where proud and warlike men used to come from the continent beyond the islands, in order to o...
20: ...o [[American Indians]]. [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]] called this island "Satyrides," referring to th...
21: ...scribes it as having a climate that is very mild; fruits and vegetables grow ripe throughout the year.... - Greco-Persian Wars (5983 bytes)
3: ...s under Persian rule, while the other Greeks were free, a state of affairs that was going to cause tro...
5: ... over them, formed a league, and applied for help from the other Greeks. [[Athens]] sent twenty ships...
13: ...rus]]. At this point the Peloponnesians withdrew from involvement (apparently due to various disputes... - Aegean civilization (41260 bytes)
15: ...t. The fresco-paintings, ceramic motifs, reliefs, free sculpture and toreutic handiwork of [[Crete]] h...
21: ...e complexity, and the greater oblongs are entered from a long side and divided longitudinally by pilla...
23: ...rom the rest of the plan by corridors, is entered from a vestibule on a short side, and has a central ...
29: ...en records, only a summary history can be derived from monuments and archaeological remains. But the d...
33: ...s, showing a progressive development in technique from bottom to top. - List of geographers (2342 bytes)
27: * [[Michael Frank Goodchild]] ([[1944]] -)
46: * [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]] (Greece, fl. circa [[150]])
65: * [[Alfred Weber]] (Germany, [[1868]] - [[1958]]
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