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... figure which has no place in the Attic genealogies . But since these represented him as an enλus they are perfectly con- sistent.3 All these objections , then , can in fact be met out of the 2 1 Töpffer u.s. 1889 , p . 237 ; by him the ...
... figure which has no place in the Attic genealogies . But since these represented him as an enλus they are perfectly con- sistent.3 All these objections , then , can in fact be met out of the 2 1 Töpffer u.s. 1889 , p . 237 ; by him the ...
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... figure is the almost mythical one of Pheidon ; he represents , in the middle of the eighth century , 1 the last definite attempt of Argos to make its superiority in Pelopon- nese a reality , and also the last attempt of the Argive kings ...
... figure is the almost mythical one of Pheidon ; he represents , in the middle of the eighth century , 1 the last definite attempt of Argos to make its superiority in Pelopon- nese a reality , and also the last attempt of the Argive kings ...
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... figures , that may be real or may be inventions . But after 650 B.C. , Gyges and Psammetichus , Archilochus and Callinus , Cypselus and Periander , Cylon and Dracon , 1 are historic persons , however scanty our knowledge of them may be ...
... figures , that may be real or may be inventions . But after 650 B.C. , Gyges and Psammetichus , Archilochus and Callinus , Cypselus and Periander , Cylon and Dracon , 1 are historic persons , however scanty our knowledge of them may be ...
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... figures given by Thucydides are attacked on the ground that they are artificial , being multiples of 5 or 10 . Probably they are so , i.e. calculations based on genuine pedigrees . A great historian like Freeman ( History of Sicily , i ...
... figures given by Thucydides are attacked on the ground that they are artificial , being multiples of 5 or 10 . Probably they are so , i.e. calculations based on genuine pedigrees . A great historian like Freeman ( History of Sicily , i ...
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... figures for the royal reigns before Alcamenes ( 785-754 B.C. ) have no value historically . ' The fact that the Olympic Era ( 776 B.C. ) begins in the 10th year both of Alcamenes and of Theo- pompus proves clearly , as he says , that ...
... figures for the royal reigns before Alcamenes ( 785-754 B.C. ) have no value historically . ' The fact that the Olympic Era ( 776 B.C. ) begins in the 10th year both of Alcamenes and of Theo- pompus proves clearly , as he says , that ...
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