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Peloponnese

noun
1.
The southern peninsula of Greece; dominated by Sparta until the 4th century BC.  Synonyms: Peloponnesian Peninsula, Peloponnesus.






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"Peloponnese" Quotes from Famous Books



... that and to the birth and rearing of Erectheus, (12) and also to the war (13) which in his days was waged to stay the tide of invasion from the whole adjoining continent; and that other war in the days of the Heraclidae (14) against the men of Peloponnese; and that series of battles fought in the days of Theseus (15)—in all which the virtuous pre-eminence of our ancestry above the men of their own times was made manifest. Or, if you please, we may come down to things of a later date, which their ...
— The Memorabilia - Recollections of Socrates • Xenophon

... visits, however, from time to time is certain. The little Egyptian trinkets, which occur frequently in Hellenic strata of the eighth to the sixth centuries, are sufficient witness of the fact. They are most numerous in Rhodes, in Caria and Ionia, and in the Peloponnese. But the main stream of Tyrian commerce hugged the south rather than the north coasts of the Eastern Mediterranean. Phoenician sailors were essentially southerners—men who, if they would brave now and again the cold winds of the Aegean and Adriatic, ...
— The Ancient East • D. G. Hogarth

... trappings, took them off and gave them to the boy. Agesilaus never forgot the connection thus formed between them, but in after days, when the son of Pharnabazus was impoverished and driven into exile by his brother, he welcomed him to the Peloponnese, and provided him with protection and a home. He even went so far as to employ his influence in favour of an Athenian youth to whom the son of Pharnabazus was attached. This boy had outgrown the age and size of the boy-runners in the Olympic ...
— Plutarch's Lives Volume III. • Plutarch



Words linked to "Peloponnese" :   Peloponnesus, Hellenic Republic, Ellas, Peloponnesian Peninsula, peninsula, Sparta, Greece, Olympia



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