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... cause of the opposition of Isagoras The Council of the Five Hundred . The Heliaia and the Dikastai The Archons The court of Areiopagos Ostracism Expulsion and return of Kleisthenes 509 ? Alliance of Plataiai with Athens . Discomfiture ...
... cause of the opposition of Isagoras The Council of the Five Hundred . The Heliaia and the Dikastai The Archons The court of Areiopagos Ostracism Expulsion and return of Kleisthenes 509 ? Alliance of Plataiai with Athens . Discomfiture ...
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... cause of the Egestaians Opposition of Nikias Counter arguments of Alkibiades Attempt of Nikias to disgust the people by insisting on the vast efforts needed to carry out the enterprise Compliance of the Athenians with all the demands of ...
... cause of the Egestaians Opposition of Nikias Counter arguments of Alkibiades Attempt of Nikias to disgust the people by insisting on the vast efforts needed to carry out the enterprise Compliance of the Athenians with all the demands of ...
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... cause for wonder if he had seen the coffin , seven cubits long , and the body as gigantic as the coffin , which he had found beneath his forge . Hastening home , Lichas said that the blows of the blacksmith's hammer must represent the ...
... cause for wonder if he had seen the coffin , seven cubits long , and the body as gigantic as the coffin , which he had found beneath his forge . Hastening home , Lichas said that the blows of the blacksmith's hammer must represent the ...
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... cause of this implacable enmity against the mother city of which the Corinthians bitterly com- plained . It is more than likely that it had its origin in jealousies of trade . The Korkyraians had acquired on the opposite side of the ...
... cause of this implacable enmity against the mother city of which the Corinthians bitterly com- plained . It is more than likely that it had its origin in jealousies of trade . The Korkyraians had acquired on the opposite side of the ...
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... cause of the intestine disorders prevalent in the country ; and it is on these points pre- cisely that complete ... causes of this misery . On the one side it has been maintained , by those who regard the representations of Plutarch as ...
... cause of the intestine disorders prevalent in the country ; and it is on these points pre- cisely that complete ... causes of this misery . On the one side it has been maintained , by those who regard the representations of Plutarch as ...
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