Description of Greece, Volume 1 |
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Achæans Achilles Ægina Æginetan afterwards altar ancient Antigonus Aphrodite Apollo Arcadians Argives Argolis Argos Aristodemus Aristomenes army Asopus Athene Athenians Attica battle Boeotia boys brazen statue built buried called capture Castor and Pollux CHAPTER chariot Cleomenes contest Corinth Corinthians daughter death Delphi Demeter Demetrius descendants Dionysus Dorians Elis Enomaus erected father fight fled fought goddess gods Greece Greeks Hera Hercules Hermes hero hero-chapel Homer honour horses Ilium inscription island Isthmian games Ithome killed king kingdom Lacedæmon Lacedæmonians Macedonians maiden Megarians Messene Messenians native Nemea nians Olympia oracle pancratium Pausanias Peloponnese Pelops pentathlum pillar Poseidon priestess Ptolemy Pylos Pyrrhus Pythian race reign river sacrifice sailed Sicyon Sicyonians sons Sparta stades statue of Zeus stone Temenus temple of Athene Thebans Thebes Theopompus Theseus tomb took town tradition victor at Olympia victory votive offering won the prize wooden statue wrestling Zeus