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 Aristophanes - Search View - MSN Encarta
In The Wasps (422 bc) Aristophanes satirized the courts of justice of the day, and in The Peace (421 bc) he again argued for peace between Athens and Sparta.
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 Ancient Olympic Games - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Greek traveller Pausanias writes that in 668 BC, Pheidon of Argos was commissioned by the town of Pisa to capture the sanctuary from the town of Elis, which he did and then personally controlled the Games for that year.
The Athenian writer Xenophon in 364 BC gives a contemporary record of an Elean attack during the Pentathlon final of the Games themselves, as the Pisans were again in control.
In 396 BC and again in 392 BC, the horses of a Spartan princess named Cynisca won her the four-horse race.
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 ARISTOPHANES
One of these was The Acharnians (425 bc), a plea for ending the war with Sparta.
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These works, basically fantasies, were written in a form less strict than that of contemporary tragedy; they include dialogue scenes, long choral harangues, lyric passages, and a great deal of music and dance.
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 Archons of Athens   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
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 4th century BC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
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 Ballistic Coefficient
BC is what determines trajectory and wind drift, other factors (velocity among them) being equal.
BC changes with the shape of the bullet and the speed at which the bullet is traveling, while sectional density does not.
This is shown by the smaller difference in BC between the two pointed bullets,.357 for the flat base and.400 for the boat tail.
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 Aristophanes - MSN Encarta
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 Encyclopedia: Fifth century BC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
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 ARCL2001: Lecture 2
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Kore from the east pediment of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, 510-500 BC.
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 Kingdoms of North Africa - Ancient Egypt
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 393 BC Information - TextSheet.com
393 BC Centuries: 5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC
Decades: 440s BC 430s BC 420s BC 410s BC 400s BC - 390s BC - 380s BC 370s BC 360s BC 350s BC 340s BC
398 BC 397 BC 396 BC 395 BC 394 BC - 393 BC - 392 BC 391 BC 390 BC 389 BC 388 BC
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 Aristophanes, Greece, ancient Greece
The Clouds (423 BC) was a satire about Socrates, whose ideas, he believed, where against the interests of the state.
The Wasps (422 BC) was a satire of the justice courts, The Peace (421 BC) was another plea for peace with Sparta and The Birds (414 BC) was a satire on the Athenian fondness of litigation.
In Ecclesiazusae (393 BC) he attacks the idea of communal ownerships of property, and Plutus (388 BC) criticizes the concept of redistribution of wealth in Athens.
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 wiki/393 Definition / wiki/393 Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Last observance of the ancient Olympic GamesThe Ancient Olympic Games were an athletic and religious celebration held in the Greek town of Olympia from (historically) as early as 776 BC to 393.
TheodoretTheodoret (393 - c.457) was an author and Christian bishop of Cyrrhus (423 - 457).
Life According to Tillemont, he was born at Antioch in 393, and died either at Cyrrhus ("about a two-days' journey east of Antioch" or eighty Roman miles), or at the monastery near Apamea (54 miles south east of Antioch) about 457....
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 388 BC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
388 BC Centuries: 5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC
Decades: 430s BC 420s BC 410s BC 400s BC 390s BC - 380s BC - 370s BC 360s BC 350s BC 340s BC 330s BC
393 BC 392 BC 391 BC 390 BC 389 BC 388 BC 387 BC 386 BC 385 BC 384 BC 383 BC
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After conquest by Alexander the Great in 332 BC the sole aim of Egypt's foreign policy was to defend her independence against an empire which persisted in regarding her simply as a rebellious province.
Not long afterwards, in 393 BC, Achoris came to the throne, and the alliance with Sparta having proved unprofitable, he was only too glad to look for assistance elsewhere.
By this time, however, both Persia and Sparta were tired of war, and in 386 BC the Peace of Antalcidas was arranged, by which a free hand in all the Greek cities of Asia was ceded to Persia in exchange for autonomy in all the other Hellenic states.
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 Cornelius   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Corculum[?], consul 162 BC, 155 BC
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 396 BC
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396 BC Centuries: 5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC
Carthaginians are forced to abandon their siege of Syracuse (begun in 398 BC, but destroy Messina.
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 Ancient Olympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
These early Olympics each lasted between one and three days, but from around 400 BC on, the festival was a full five days as more and more events were added.
After the 293rd Olympics in 393 AD, the Roman emperor Theodosius II declared that the Games would no longer be held, and the Olympic movement ended.
Although the ancient games were staged in Olympia, Greece, from 776 BC thourh 393 AD, it took 1,503 years for the Olympics to return.
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 The history of Thassos Greece
In the 7th Century BC Telesicles, King of Paros, received an oracle from Delphi saying: “Tell the Parians, Telesicles, that I order you to build upon the isle of Aeria a city that will be visible everywhere”.
The inhabitants minted coins which remained in circulation throughout the Mediterranean for hundreds of years, and Thassian wines were much praised by almost all of the poets of antiquity.
465 BC: Thassos revolts and is subdued by the Athenians, who destroy its ships and its walls.
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 390 BC Information - TextSheet.com
390 BC Centuries: 5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC
395 BC 394 BC 393 BC 392 BC 391 BC - 390 BC - 389 BC 388 BC 387 BC 386 BC 385 BC
Spartan mora (regiment) defeated by Athenians (led by Iphicrates) at Lechaeum
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