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  Delphi -- History and Mythology
373 BC: the second temple of Apollo was destroyed by an earthquake.
During the course of the 8th and 7th centuries BC, the sanctuary grew in prestige as it received splendid dedications from legendary kings such as Gyges and Midas.
Its political role expanded in the 7th century BC, when it became the seat of the Amphictyony, and individual cities began to build along the Sacred Way leading up to the temple - treasuries in which the cities' dedications to Apollo were guarded, and monuments commemorating the cities' successes.
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 history
The historical period began for Corfu with the Corinthian Emigration of 734 – 229 BC The town was built in the Kanoni area as far as the Lake of Chalkiopoulou (Paliopoli).
In 373 BC, as a result of the Athenian alliance, the Spartans took vengeance on the Corfiots in a new war.
In 229 BC, having vainly withstood the onslaught of the Illyrians, the Corfiots were forced to accept an occupation garrison with Dimitrius the Pharian as commander.
www.corfuweb.gr /gb-history.htm   (341 words)

  
 Helike Foundation - Search for Ancient Helike
In 373 BC, a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami destroyed and submerged the ancient Greek city of Helike, on the southwest shore of the Gulf of Corinth.
In 2001, after twelve years of field work, the Helike Project brought to light the first traces of the lost Classical city, buried under deposits of an ancient lagoon.
An earthquake apparently caused the submergence of this Prehistoric town twenty centuries before a similar fate led to the disappearance of its Classical successor.
www.helike.org   (226 words)

  
 ... < G R E E C E >...
When in 373 BC it suffered serious damages by an earthquake, many city-states collaborated in order to restore it.
The cella had two pillars, both on the porch as well as on the opisthodrome, whereas inside there was the adyton, the most sacred of all spaces that no one could enter, since it contained the omphalos, the centre of the world.
During one of them, probably in 373 BC, the bronze chariot dedicated in 474 BC by the tyrant of Syracuse Polyzalos was buried.
www.grecian.net /greece/centralgreece/fokida/delphi/delphi.htm   (873 words)

  
 Dynasties 29 - 31 - Alexander The Great
In the spring of 373 BC, the Persian army moved in to attack Egypt.
Arses - 360-343 BC Arses was the second ruler of the Thirty-first Dynasty and was the youngest son of Ochus.
One story is that either upon entering or exiting the temple he was greeted by the priest as "my son." Alexander's army and followers were not in a strategic position to see the priest and thought the words came from the god himself.
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 4th century BC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Tollund Man, Human sacrifice victim on the Jutland Peninsula in Denmark, possibly the earliest known evidence for worship of Odin.
Philip II of Macedon (born 382, reigned 359 - 336 BC).
Mencius, Chinese philosopher and sage (371 - 289 BC).
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 Volleyball Blanks Connecticut :: Eagles one step closer to postseason
BC trailed 13-9 at the start, but fought back with four straight points to tie the game at 13.
BC won the final point off on an attacking error by the Huskies.
But BC never lost momentum in the game with Andersen, Verena Rost, and Hasebroock putting down three straight kills to seal the 30-26 victory.
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 368 bc   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
368 BC Centuries: 5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC
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 A City Lost in the Night
In historical times after the first Olympic in 776 BC, Helike was one of the many cities-states from which Greeks sailed across the Ionian Sea to found a colony in southern Italy.
Sybaris was razed by jealous rival Kroton in 510 BC, and in modern times its location identified again only in 1960 by Italian geologist Vincenzo Cotecchia, who has shown interest in the search for the vanished mother-city.
This was fought in 371 BC, when Thebans defeated Spartans, ending 30 years of Spartan rule of Greece after the victory over Athens in the Peloponnesian War.
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 377 BC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Beginning of the reign of Mausolus in Caria (+353 BC).
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 373 BC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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The Persian army under the generals Iphicrates and attempted to reconquer Egypt but due to mutual distrust king I was able to gather his forces repulse their invasion.
Although I find it weird to consider the Troggs alternative (were they really the Strokes of the 60s?) this includes a lot of obscure, forgotten stuff we need to remember.
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 THE THIRD HITTITE EMPIRE
373 BC--The Temple of Apollo at Delphi is destroyed by an earthquake.
BC, who then tries to give the throne to her brother, Alexander of Epirus.
BC, he reigns over a vast area extending from the Arabian Sea to the Bay of Bengal.
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 Welcome to Mary's Villas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The history of Corfu dates back to 734 BC when it was settled by the Corinthians who forced the Liburnian pirates (that history records as the first inhabitants of Corfu) off the island.
Domestic disputes, and the permanent rivalry between aristocrats and democrats, undermined the island which was forced to enter the Athenian Alliance in 373 BC thus provoking the wrath of the Lacedaemonians.
The latter reacted by sending General Mnasippos, who from 373-372 BC laid the first and ultimatively unsuccessful siege on the city.
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 373 BC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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The Persian army, under the generals Iphicrates and Pharnabazes, attempted to reconquer Egypt, but due to mutual distrust king Nectanebo I was able to gather his forcesand repulse their invasion.
www.therfcc.org /373-bc-169180.html   (124 words)

  
 The Sarmatians 600 Bc-Ad 450 (Men-at-Arms 373)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The details on the pictures and weapons are excellent and that is why this is such a good book.
Perhaps, it just goes to show the ancient beliefs were accurate in some cases, and modern re-thinking only distorts us from the truth.
lt;br /gt; lt;br /gt;Personally, I found it interesting that swords with ring shaped pommels were popular among the Sarmatians from the 2nd century BC to the 2nd century AD, as my family coat of arms has a sword with a ring shaped pommel.
www.history-asia.com /The_Sarmatians_600_BcAd_450_MenatArms_373_184176485X.html   (551 words)

  
 Helike Foundation - Discoveries at Ancient Helike
On a winter night in 373 BC, a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami destroyed and submerged Helike, the principal Greek city on the southwest shore of the Gulf of Corinth.
We uncovered ruins of building destroyed by the earthquake of 373 BC (at H18/19).
Excavation of a new trench in the Early Bronze Age site brought to light part of a large corridor house and showed that much of the prehistoric settlement is perfectly undisturbed and intact, containing dozens of pots of various types and sizes, some preserving traces of their organic contents, including seeds.
www.helike.org /paper.shtml   (2066 words)

  
 Delphi - Pathways to Ancient Myth
Constructed in the 5th Century BC, it is made of white and grey/fl marble and is aligned with the position of the old temple of 548 BC rather than the current temple.
Between the altar and the temple is an esplanade bearing more bases which once were topped by various statues and votives.
The first temple was destroyed by fire in 548 BC and the second by an earthquake in 373 BC.
www.calvin.edu /academic/clas/pathways/delphi/dapp9.htm   (163 words)

  
 Delphi - Pathways to Ancient Myth
In 448 BC, the Second Sacred War began, as the Lacedaemonians, Phocians, Athenians, and Delphians all fought over who would control the oracle.
In 373 BC, the temple was once again destroyed, this time by an Earthquake.
The Fourth Sacred War was started when the Amphissans were accused of cultivating the Krisaean plan and were crushed by Philip of Macedon in 338 BC.
www.calvin.edu /academic/clas/pathways/delphi/dinf2.htm   (116 words)

  
 374 BC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Centuries: 5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC
379 BC 378 BC 377 BC 376 BC 375 BC - 374 BC - 373 BC 372 BC 371 BC 370 BC 369 BC
This page was last modified 02:53, 6 May 2005.
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 AthensNews onLine SEARCH
Filming for the 50-minute television programme began in May. Producer Thecla Schreuders oversaw aerial photography by helicopter on a bright spring day to show the location of Helike between soaring mountains and sea on the quake-prone Gulf of Corinth.
In a catastrophic earthquake estimated to have been 7 on the Ritcher scale with ensuing tsunami - seismic waves - one winter's night on 373-72 BC, the city known at least since Homer's time as a sanctuary of Poseidon, god of the sea and earthquakes, was swallowed up in the gulf.
Scientific analysis showed remains had been buried successively under the sea and a freshwater lake such as was mentioned by second-century BC writer Eratosthenes.
www.athensnews.gr /athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12915&m=A25&aa=1&eidos=S   (820 words)

  
 Botany 307F - Families of Vascular Plants - History of botanical concepts
373-287 BC) began his Enquiry into plants with the sentence, "We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology, their behavior under external conditions, their mode of generation, and the whole course of their life" (transl.
This declaration is seen as representing the beginning of the scientific understanding of plants.
The Enquiry into plants also documented more than 300 plant names, the structure of which makes it clear that he was preserving an existing folk taxonomy.
www.botany.utoronto.ca /courses/BOT307/F_Organization/307notes09.html   (1199 words)

  
 BC vs Rutgers (Nov 04, 2002)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
BC (12-4 (8-2)) vs. Goals by period 1 2 Tot Rutgers (8-7-3 (5-4-1)) ------------------------------- Date: Nov 04, 2002 Attendance: 373 BC..................
53:57 BC KILIC, Oktay Unassisted one on one with goalie 4.
Referee: Saverio Amato; Alex Ivanhencko; Timekeeper: Doug Drabik; Scorer: Darren Fenster; Offsides: BC 3, Rutgers 0.
www.scarletknights.com /soccer-men/scores/2002/114bc.htm   (425 words)

  
 Map of 373 Victoria St Kamloops, BC CA by MapQuest
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 Events & News
In 373 BC, an earthquake and tsunami destroyed and submerged Helike, the leading Greek city on the southwest shore of the Gulf of Corinth.
The Bronze Age culture of Crete, from 3000 to 1200 B.C., is called the Minoan civilization.
The "dig" discovered evidence for an unusual religious ceremony in which all the bones and grave goods from an entire community were moved and placed inside this cave, about 1800 B.C. Among the objects from over 1000 years of earlier burials were figurines, sealstones, pottery, and other objects.
www.dickinson.edu /departments/arch/events.html   (639 words)

  
 373 BC -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
373 BC -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
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The ancient (A native or inhabitant of Greece) Greek city of (Click link for more info and facts about Helike) Helike is destroyed by a massive earthquake and tidal wave.
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 BBC - Science & Nature - Horizon - Helike the Real Atlantis
On a winter night in 373 BC, the classical Greek city of Helike was destroyed by a massive earthquake and tidal wave.
But the earthquake in 373 BC could also have had a second more devastating effect.
As well as liquifaction recent earthquakes have caused chunks of coastline to fall into the sea.
www.bbc.co.uk /science/horizon/2001/helike.shtml   (763 words)

  
 376 BC Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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 Amazon.com: Books: The Sarmatians 600 Bc-Ad 450 (Men-at-Arms 373)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Scythians 700-300 B.C. (Men at Arms Series, 137) by M.
The Sarmatians - one of the many nomadic groups to emerge from the great Eurasian Steppe - crossed the Don in about the 3rd century BC to displace their western neighbours, the Scythians, in the lands north of the Black Sea.
Personally, I found it interesting that swords with ring shaped pommels were popular among the Sarmatians from the 2nd century BC to the 2nd century AD, as my family coat of arms has a sword with a ring shaped pommel.
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