A Smaller Classical Dictionary of Biography, Mythology, and Geography: Abridged from the Larger Dictionary, with IllustrationsHarper & Bros., Publishers, 1889 - 438 Seiten |
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Achilles Aegaean Africa afterwards Alexander Alps ancient town Antiochus Antony Apollo Argos army Artemis arum Asia Minor Athenians Athens Attica Augustus battle became Boeotia born brother Caesar Campania Carthaginians celebrated chief town Cicero Cilicia Claudius coast colony command conquered consul daughter defeated died Dionysus district Egypt emperor empire Epirus Etruria Euboea extant father flourished formed founded Gallia Gallia Belgica Gaul goddess gods Greece Greek gulf hence called Hera Hercules Hispania Hispania Tarraconensis Homer inhabitants Ionian island Italy killed king kingdom lake Latium latter Macedonia Marius married miles mother Mount mountains murdered Mysia native nymph ōnis originally ōrum Peloponnesus Persian Phocis Phrygia poet Pompey Pontus Poseidon promontory province Ptolemy put to death reign river Roman Rome Scipio Sicily Sinus slain Spain Sparta stadia succeeded surname Syria temple Thebes Thessaly Thrace Thracian Tiberius took tribes Trojan Troy Ulysses whence wife worship Zeus Zeus Jupiter
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Seite 440 - The Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland. With a View of the Primary Causes and Movements of the "Thirty Years
Seite 24 - Towards the end of the first or the beginning of the second century after Christ, these lands were incorporated in the Roman empire.
Seite 148 - Only stand a little out of my sunshine," said Diogenes. Alexander, we are told, was struck with such surprise at finding himself so little regarded, and saw something so great in that carelessness, that, while his courtiers were ridiculing the philosopher as a monster, he said, " If I were not Alexander, I should wish to be Diogenes.
Seite 150 - He hired a ship which belonged to Tyrrhenian pirates ; but the men, instead of landing at Naxos, steered towards Asia, to sell him there as a slave. Thereupon the god changed the mast and oars into serpents, and himself into a lion ; ivy grew around the vessel, and the sound of flutes was heard on every side ; the sailors were seized with madness, leaped into the sea, and were metamorphosed into dolphins.
Seite 440 - With a full View of the English-Dutch Struggle against Spain, and of the Origin and Destruction of the Spanish Armada. By JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY, LL.D., DCL Portraits.