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... Greek independence against Rome for 50 years preceding the fall of Corinth , 146 B.C. Achæmenidæ . Family of Persian kings , ruling ab . 730- 430 B.C. Achæta ( SIPUNCULOIDEA or INERMES ) . Gephyrean worms with terminal mouth , dorsal ...
... Greek independence against Rome for 50 years preceding the fall of Corinth , 146 B.C. Achæmenidæ . Family of Persian kings , ruling ab . 730- 430 B.C. Achæta ( SIPUNCULOIDEA or INERMES ) . Gephyrean worms with terminal mouth , dorsal ...
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... Greek religious statuary , in which the main figure was made of wood , while the hands , arms and feet were of stone . These figures were clothed in garments which were plaited in zigzag folds , and the first entirely stone figures of Greek ...
... Greek religious statuary , in which the main figure was made of wood , while the hands , arms and feet were of stone . These figures were clothed in garments which were plaited in zigzag folds , and the first entirely stone figures of Greek ...
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... Greek birth ; founder of a monastery near Nimes , ab . 673 ; patron of cripples . His day is Sept. 1 . Ægidius Colonna , 1247–1316 . Italian schoolman , " Doc- tor Beatus " ; Abp . of Bourges 1296 . Ægina . Island s . w . from Athens ...
... Greek birth ; founder of a monastery near Nimes , ab . 673 ; patron of cripples . His day is Sept. 1 . Ægidius Colonna , 1247–1316 . Italian schoolman , " Doc- tor Beatus " ; Abp . of Bourges 1296 . Ægina . Island s . w . from Athens ...
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... Greek fabulist , ab . 570 B.C .; said to have been a deformed slave , who gained his freedom , traveled , and conveyed instruction in the form of fables . Those attributed to him were long handed down by oral tradition . Æsopus ...
... Greek fabulist , ab . 570 B.C .; said to have been a deformed slave , who gained his freedom , traveled , and conveyed instruction in the form of fables . Those attributed to him were long handed down by oral tradition . Æsopus ...
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... Greek rhetorician at Constantinople . Of his works near 100 poems and a history of the wars of the period remain . Agatho . Pope 678-682 . Agathocles , 361-289 B.C. Tyrant of Syracuse from 317 . Agathon , ab . 447 - ab . 400 B.C. ...
... Greek rhetorician at Constantinople . Of his works near 100 poems and a history of the wars of the period remain . Agatho . Pope 678-682 . Agathocles , 361-289 B.C. Tyrant of Syracuse from 317 . Agathon , ab . 447 - ab . 400 B.C. ...
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