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... Attack of Teleutias on the Peiraieus . The PEACE OF ANTALKIDAS imposed on the Greeks by the Persian king . The Spartans restore Plataia . 301 Peloponnesos They break up the city of Mantineia ; and Olynthos . resolve to suppress the ...
... Attack of Teleutias on the Peiraieus . The PEACE OF ANTALKIDAS imposed on the Greeks by the Persian king . The Spartans restore Plataia . 301 Peloponnesos They break up the city of Mantineia ; and Olynthos . resolve to suppress the ...
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... attacks they could guard themselves by walls , and the result was that these cities had been enclosed within fortifications , while the inland tribes continued to live in scattered villages . They had in fact parted company , and were ...
... attacks they could guard themselves by walls , and the result was that these cities had been enclosed within fortifications , while the inland tribes continued to live in scattered villages . They had in fact parted company , and were ...
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... attack upon Sparta , and was again foiled by the trea- chery of Aristokrates . But the spirit of the Messenians was broken . Aristomenes went to take counsel at Delphoi , and there met Da- magetos , the king of the Rhodian Ialysos , who ...
... attack upon Sparta , and was again foiled by the trea- chery of Aristokrates . But the spirit of the Messenians was broken . Aristomenes went to take counsel at Delphoi , and there met Da- magetos , the king of the Rhodian Ialysos , who ...
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... attack by Persian fleets , Olympia rose to greatness as the glory of Delos waned . But however vivid might be the glow of Hellenic or Pan- Hellenic sentiment at Eleusis or Olympia , it left untouched the veneration paid to the city as ...
... attack by Persian fleets , Olympia rose to greatness as the glory of Delos waned . But however vivid might be the glow of Hellenic or Pan- Hellenic sentiment at Eleusis or Olympia , it left untouched the veneration paid to the city as ...
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... attacks upon them by neighbouring populations . But great as were the attractions of Sicily , those of the neighbouring peninsula were far greater . On either side of the mountain range which forms its backbone magnificent forests rose ...
... attacks upon them by neighbouring populations . But great as were the attractions of Sicily , those of the neighbouring peninsula were far greater . On either side of the mountain range which forms its backbone magnificent forests rose ...
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