Pausanias's Description of Greece, Volume 4Macmillan and Company, limited, 1898 |
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acropolis Aegium Alpheus ancient Apollo Arcadia Archäologische Zeitung Aroanius Artemis Athens Baedeker blocks Boblaye built Bursian called century B.C. Chelmos coins colonnade columns Curtius Demeter Diodorus Dodwell Doric Dörpfeld east eastern excavated feet foot foundations fragments furlongs Gell Geogr Gesch glen goddess Greek griech ground Guide-Joanne height Hellenic Studies Herodotus hill hist Inschriften von Olympia Journal of Hellenic L. R. Farnell Ladon lake Leake limestone Loring Lycosura Mantinea marble Megalopolis mentioned by Pausanias Methydrium metres miles Morea mountains Olympia Orchomenus Patrae Paus Pausanias Pausanias's pedestal Pelop Peloponnes Pheneus Phigalia Philippson Philopoemen plain Pliny Plutarch Polybius portico probably Prof Psophis Recherches Reisen remains ridge river road Roman Ross ruins sanctuary sculptor seems side slope spring statue steep stone Strabo stream Stymphalus summit supposed Tegea temple theatre treasury valley victory viii village wall Zeus
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Página 299 - Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel, Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn? And, little town, thy streets for evermore Will silent be; and not a soul to tell Why thou art desolate, can e'er return.
Página 315 - Synagogue who lived at the end of the fourth or the beginning of the third century BC...
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Página 263 - The temple and the village were deeply bosomed in a thick grove of laurels and cypresses, which reached as far as a circumference of ten miles and formed in the most sultry summers a cool and impenetrable shade. A thousand streams of the purest water issuing from every hill, preserved the verdure of the earth, and the temperature of the air...
Página 20 - Jewish community at the end of the fifth or the beginning of the fourth century with Ezra's mission according to the late chronology (398 BC).
Página 408 - Journal of Hellenic Studies, 14 (1894), pp. 8 1 sqq.) 138 sqq. We may perhaps infer that hybrid forms of this sort were commoner in the early than in the fully-developed art of Greece. We have seen from Pausanias (viii. 41. 6) that not far from Phigalia there was an image of Eurynome with the body of a woman and the tail of a fish ; it was probably very ancient. 42. 4. a dolphin a dove. As the dolphin was an attribute of Poseidon and the dove of Aphrodite, the two together in the hands of Demeter...
Página 355 - And the natives of Tonga cut off a portion of the little finger as a sacrifice to the gods, for the recovery of a superior sick relative.
Página 151 - Well, in the village of Shadar, is by the vulgar natives made a test to Know if a sick person will die of the distemper he labours under. They send one with a wooden dish, to bring some of the water to the patient, and if the dish, which is then laid softly upon the surface of the water, turn round sun-ways, they conclude that the patient will recover of that distemper ; but if otherwise, that he will die.
Página 88 - Roman period ; it may date from the end of the second or the beginning of the first century BC The Corinthian capitals, however, are carefully modelled and well executed.