The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 3. köideThomas Spencer Baynes A. and C. Black, 1875 |
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... afterwards famous as the Acropolis . Such is the express statement of Thucydides ( ii . 15 ) , who observes that the Acropolis was commonly termed at Athens Tóλis , much as the oldest part of London is styled " The City . " The earliest ...
... afterwards famous as the Acropolis . Such is the express statement of Thucydides ( ii . 15 ) , who observes that the Acropolis was commonly termed at Athens Tóλis , much as the oldest part of London is styled " The City . " The earliest ...
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... afterwards rebuilt . Mention has already been made of the building of the Long Walls and the laying out of the Piraeus by Pericles ; but it was the Acropolis itself which witnessed the greatest splendours of his administration . Within ...
... afterwards rebuilt . Mention has already been made of the building of the Long Walls and the laying out of the Piraeus by Pericles ; but it was the Acropolis itself which witnessed the greatest splendours of his administration . Within ...
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... afterwards passed into Italy . The worms , it seems , had been brought from India to Con- stantinople in the reign of Justinian . Doomed , apparently , to become the prey of every spoiler , Athens again emerges from oblivion in the 13th ...
... afterwards passed into Italy . The worms , it seems , had been brought from India to Con- stantinople in the reign of Justinian . Doomed , apparently , to become the prey of every spoiler , Athens again emerges from oblivion in the 13th ...
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... afterwards , the Pasha having left Athens to the defence of 1500 men , the Greeks again ventured to attack the town , and succeeded in obliging the Turks to seek refuge in the citadel , which they forthwith determined to besiege ; but ...
... afterwards , the Pasha having left Athens to the defence of 1500 men , the Greeks again ventured to attack the town , and succeeded in obliging the Turks to seek refuge in the citadel , which they forthwith determined to besiege ; but ...
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... afterwards there followed the establishments Iveron ( Tv ' Iẞnpwv ) , Vatopedi ( Barоmédiov ) , and Sphigmenu ( Tou ' Eopiyuévov ) . The family of the Comneni ( 1056-1204 ) bestowed great privileges on the existing monastaries , and ...
... afterwards there followed the establishments Iveron ( Tv ' Iẞnpwv ) , Vatopedi ( Barоmédiov ) , and Sphigmenu ( Tou ' Eopiyuévov ) . The family of the Comneni ( 1056-1204 ) bestowed great privileges on the existing monastaries , and ...
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