A Smaller Classical Dictionary of Biography, Mythology, and Geography: Abridged from the Larger DictionaryMurray, 1884 - 438 páginas |
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... Aetolia , from which , at a later time , it was separated by the Achelous . The name of Acarnania does not occur in Homer . In the most ancient times the land was inhabit- ed by the Taphii , Teleboae , and Leleges , and subsequently by ...
... Aetolia , from which , at a later time , it was separated by the Achelous . The name of Acarnania does not occur in Homer . In the most ancient times the land was inhabit- ed by the Taphii , Teleboae , and Leleges , and subsequently by ...
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... Aetolia , and falls into the Ionian sea opposite miles in length . The god of this river is de- scribed as the son of Oceanus and Tethys , and as the eldest of his 3000 brothers . He fought with Hercules for Deianira , but was conquered ...
... Aetolia , and falls into the Ionian sea opposite miles in length . The god of this river is de- scribed as the son of Oceanus and Tethys , and as the eldest of his 3000 brothers . He fought with Hercules for Deianira , but was conquered ...
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... Aetolia , from the Ache- lous to the Evenus and Calydon , and New Aetolia , or the Acquired , from the Evenus and Calydon to the Ozolian Locrians . On the coast the country is level and fruitful , but in the interior mountainous and ...
... Aetolia , from the Ache- lous to the Evenus and Calydon , and New Aetolia , or the Acquired , from the Evenus and Calydon to the Ozolian Locrians . On the coast the country is level and fruitful , but in the interior mountainous and ...
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... Aetolia after him . AFRANIUS ( -i ) , L. ( 1 ) A Roman comic poet , flourished about B.c. 100. His comedies depicted Roman life with such accuracy that he is classed with Menander . Only a few fragments of them are preserved . ( 2 ) A ...
... Aetolia after him . AFRANIUS ( -i ) , L. ( 1 ) A Roman comic poet , flourished about B.c. 100. His comedies depicted Roman life with such accuracy that he is classed with Menander . Only a few fragments of them are preserved . ( 2 ) A ...
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... AETOLIAN , of Pleuron in Aetolia , a Greek poet , lived in the reign of Ptolemaeus Phila- delphus ( B.c. 285-247 ) , at Alexandria , where he was reckoned one of the 7 tragic poets who constituted the tragic pleiad . ( 3 ) Of APHRO ...
... AETOLIAN , of Pleuron in Aetolia , a Greek poet , lived in the reign of Ptolemaeus Phila- delphus ( B.c. 285-247 ) , at Alexandria , where he was reckoned one of the 7 tragic poets who constituted the tragic pleiad . ( 3 ) Of APHRO ...
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