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... lands which they regarded as the continuous or continental Hellas , and the scattered ( or sporadic ) Hellas of the Egean Sea , and of the Asiatic , Sicilian , or other coasts . By the continental Hellas they meant the lands lying to ...
... lands which they regarded as the continuous or continental Hellas , and the scattered ( or sporadic ) Hellas of the Egean Sea , and of the Asiatic , Sicilian , or other coasts . By the continental Hellas they meant the lands lying to ...
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... lands between the bay of Malea and the gulf of Pagasai . From the latter northwards to the vale of Tempe , the eastern ... land is the fertile valley of the Spercheios , shut in to the west by mount Oita , to the north by Othrys , and to ...
... lands between the bay of Malea and the gulf of Pagasai . From the latter northwards to the vale of Tempe , the eastern ... land is the fertile valley of the Spercheios , shut in to the west by mount Oita , to the north by Othrys , and to ...
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... land more nearly resembling Magnesia than the less broken lowlands of Achaia . We learn without surprise that less than half of this land of mountains is even capable of cultivation ; and although it was more carefully tilled 2,000 ...
... land more nearly resembling Magnesia than the less broken lowlands of Achaia . We learn without surprise that less than half of this land of mountains is even capable of cultivation ; and although it was more carefully tilled 2,000 ...
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... lands . But we have to re- member that the country of which we have thus far spoken was not the whole of Hellas , nor did it contain the richest or the most splendid of Greek cities . It is , however , the land in which political wisdom ...
... lands . But we have to re- member that the country of which we have thus far spoken was not the whole of Hellas , nor did it contain the richest or the most splendid of Greek cities . It is , however , the land in which political wisdom ...
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... land , and that , if such a war ever took place , it must be carried back to a time pre- ceding the dispersion of the Aryan tribes . It has , therefore , in strictness of speech , nothing to do with Greek history . Among traditions for ...
... land , and that , if such a war ever took place , it must be carried back to a time pre- ceding the dispersion of the Aryan tribes . It has , therefore , in strictness of speech , nothing to do with Greek history . Among traditions for ...
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