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	Cephissus -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Cephissus (Salamis), a river in (Highly seasoned fatty sausage of pork and beef usually dried) Salamis.
		Cephissus (Corinth), a former river which Pausanias (2.20.6) says was destroyed by Poseidon but which can still be heard flowing under the earth at a sanctuary to Cephissus in (The modern Greek port near the site of the ancient city that was second only to Athens) Corinth.
		Cephissus was also a man changed into a sea monster by (Greek god of light; god of prophesy and poetry and music and healing; son of Zeus and Leto; twin brother of Artemis) Apollo.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ce/cephissus.htm (295 words)

	PHOCION - LoveToKnow Article on PHOCION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In politics he is known chiefly as the consistent opponent of the anti-Macedonian firebrands, headed by Demosthenes, Lycurgus and Hypereides, whose fervent eloquence he endeavoured to damp by recounting the plain facts of Athenss military and financial weakness and her need of peace, even when the arms of Athens seemed to prosper most.
		It is probable that the country was originally of greater extent, for there was a tradition that the Phocians once owned a strip of land round Daphnus on the sea opposite Euboea, and carried their frontier to Thermopylae; in addition, in early days they controlled the great sanctuary of Delphi.
		In 457 an attempt to extend their influence to the head waters of the Cephissus in the territory of Doris brought a Spartan army into Phocis in defence of the metropolis of the Dorians.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PH/PHOCION.htm (1355 words)

	iqexpand.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Cephissus (Athenian plain), a river in Attica flowing through the Athenian plain.
		Cephissus (Argolis), a river of Argolis, tributary of the Inachus.
		Cephissus (Corinth), a former river which Pausanias (2.20.6) says was destroyed by Poseidon but which can still be heard flowing under the earth at a sanctuary to Cephissus in Corinth.
	cephissus.iqexpand.com (498 words)

	ANISTORITON Journal of History, Archaeology, ArtHistory: Viewpoints (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Athenians, upon hearing of the landing, sent a runner to Sparta to beg assistance while their main army marched to the coast to meet the threat.
		The Athenians demonstrated the terrible effectiveness of the phalanx and proved that their enemy was not the invincible host it was imagined to be.
		The Athenians managed to hold out for eight more years, but their losses in Sicily and the decline of prestige that accompanied it proved too much in conjunction with the Persian influence.
	www.anistor.co.hol.gr /english/enback/v033.htm (7606 words)

	A Smaller History of Greece - Chapter X (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Previously the Athenians had used as their only harbour the open roadstead of PHALERUM on the eastern side of the Phaleric bay, where the sea-shore is nearest to Athens.
		The latter portion of this period, or that comprised under the ascendency of Pericles, exhibits Athenian art in its highest state of perfection, and is therefore by way of excellence commonly designated as the age of Pericles.
		It had no roof, but the spectators were probably protected from the sun by an awning, and from their elevated seats they had a distinct view of the sea, and of the peaked hills of Salamis in the horizon.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/hst/european/ASmallerHistoryofGreece/chap10.html (3102 words)

	ORCHOMENUS - LoveToKnow Article on ORCHOMENUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		I, A Boeotian city, situated in an angle between the Cephissus and its tributary the Melas, on a long narrow hill which projects south from Mount Acontium.
		Its position is exceedingly strong, being defended on every side by precipice or marsh or river, and it was admirably situated to be the stronghold of an early kingdom.
		Apart from this event its later history is obscure, and its decadence is further attested by the neglectful drainage of the plain and the consequent encroachments of Lake Copais.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /O/OR/ORCHOMENUS.htm (1064 words)

	The Internet Classics Archive \| The History of Herodotus by Herodotus
		The Athenians say that they have in their Acropolis a huge serpent, which lives in the temple, and is the guardian of the whole place.
		He declared that after the army of Xerxes had, in the absence of the Athenians, wasted Attica, he chanced to be with Demaratus the Lacedaemonian in the Thriasian plain, and that while there, he saw a cloud of dust advancing from Eleusis, such as a host of thirty thousand men might raise.
		For the commander of the Athenian trireme, when he saw her bear down on one of the enemy's fleet, thought immediately that her vessel was a Greek, or else had deserted from the Persians, and was now fighting on the Greek side; he therefore gave up the chase, and turned away to attack others.
	classics.mit.edu /Herodotus/history.8.viii.html (10214 words)

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		Narcissus was the son of the River-god Cephissus and the Nymph Liriope.
		Cephissus, the son of Pontus and Thalassa, is a God of a flowing river and the son of two deities of the Ocean.
		The worship of Cephissus was connected with that of Pan and the Nymphs and also Achelous,the divinity of potable (i.e.
	www.btinternet.com /~southcote/SoW37.htm (4535 words)

	Tribute 5 (Conclusion)*
		The Athenians, who considered the Ionians to be colonists from their city and therefore kinsmen, supported Aristagoras’ insurgency enterprise with a squadron of twenty triremes, whilst five similar warships were sent from allied Eretria on the island of Euboea.
		The 10,000-strong Athenian forces, supported by 1,000 Plataeans and led by the supreme commander, or ‘polemarch’, Callimachus, was already marching north to try to help the Eretrians when they discovered that 15,000 Persian infantry and 800 cavalry had landed on the plain of Marathon.
		At the same time that the Athenians were celebrating their victory at Marathon by laying the foundations for the Parthenon on their acropolis, the satrap of Babylon himself was sitting on a horse at his own city’s Ishtar gate.
	www.eunuch.org /Alpha/T/ea_62936tribute_.htm (20997 words)

	Hobby-O - (The Diary of John Cam Hobhouse, edited by Peter Cochran)
		In the plain extending from the village to the waterside are small upright stones standing, and crossing the plain in many pieces from the north-west hills are the remains of the aqueduct.
		From this entrance the plain appears be largest under the hills to the north, and the promontory of Rhamnus stretching out towards you forms a very fine bay to this northern part of the plain, which immediately strikes you at a distance as having been the scene of action.
		This plain is of a narrow appearance, but long, perhaps ten miles, or it may be better called a strip of coast, bounded by a range of Mount Pentele, that extends south and north from the south end nearly to within a mile and a half of the village.
	www.hobby-o.com /athens.php (16976 words)

	Cephissus (Athenian plain) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Cephissus (Athenian plain) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Cephissus (Athenian plain) (Greek Κήφισσος, Kifissós, Kephissós, Kêphissos) or Cephisus (Greek Κήφισος Kêphissos), a river flowing through the Athenian plain.
		In his summary of (The mythology of the ancient Greeks) Greek mythology (additional info and facts about Apollodorus) Apollodorus (3.15.1) declares that (additional info and facts about Erechtheus) Erechtheus' wife Praxithea was daughter of Phrasimus (otherwise unknown to us) by Diogenia (otherwise unknown to us) daughter of Cephissus.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ce/cephissus_(athenian_plain)1.htm (393 words)

	Chaeronea
		Athenians, Euboeans, and Corinthian forces held the left wing, but the Athenian Hoplites were mostly "green" troops.
		The Athenian and Allied wing may be comprised of 32 figure Hoplite units instead of 24 at the player's discretion.
		Athenian Hoplites count as 'confident' and will FBIGO when they fail their first panic or break test, after that however they count as 'edgy' and must take all panic and break tests on 3D6.
	www.ancientbattles.com /WAB_Macedonians/Chaeronea.htm (2118 words)

	The Internet Classics Archive \| The Iliad by Homer
		Now the other gods and the armed warriors on the plain slept soundly, but Jove was wakeful, for he was thinking how to do honour to Achilles, and destroyed much people at the ships of the Achaeans.
		They were like great flocks of geese, or cranes, or swans on the plain about the waters of Cayster, that wing their way hither and thither, glorying in the pride of flight, and crying as they settle till the fen is alive with their screaming.
		They are crossing the plain to attack the city as thick as leaves or as the sands of the sea.
	classics.mit.edu /Homer/iliad.2.ii.html (6525 words)

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		A plain man cannot stand against the anger of a king, who if he swallow his displeasure now, will yet nurse revenge till he has wreaked it.
		BOOK II Now the other gods and the armed warriors on the plain slept soundly, but Jove was wakeful, for he was thinking how to do honour to Achilles, and destroyed much people at the ships of the Achaeans.
		Now when the son of Lycaon saw him scouring the plain and driving the Trojans pell-mell before him, he aimed an arrow and hit the front part of his cuirass near the shoulder: the arrow went right through the metal and pierced the flesh, so that the cuirass was covered with blood.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/ancient/homer-illiad.txt (20293 words)

	The Persian Wars by Herodotus: Book 7 - POLYMNIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		For no sooner is war proclaimed than they search out the smoothest and fairest plain that is to be found in all the land, and there they assemble and fight; whence it comes to pass that even the conquerors depart with great loss: I say nothing of the conquered, for they are destroyed altogether.
		What calamity came upon the Athenians to punish them for their treatment of the heralds I cannot say, unless it were the laying waste of their city and territory; but that I believe was not on account of this crime.
		Had the Athenians, from fear of the approaching danger, quitted their country, or had they without quitting it submitted to the power of Xerxes, there would certainly have been no attempt to resist the Persians by sea; in which case the course of events by land would have been the following.
	www.parstimes.com /history/herodotus/persian_wars/polymnia.html (20293 words)

	History of Iran: Persian Empire
		Polycritus no sooner saw the Athenian trireme than, knowing at once whose vessel it was, as he observed that it bore the ensign of the admiral, he shouted to Themistocles jeeringly, and asked him, in a tone of reproach, if the Eginetans did not show themselves rare friends to the Medes.
		For the Athenian captains had received special orders touching the queen; and moreover a reward of ten thousand drachmas had been proclaimed for any one who should make her prisoner; since there was great indignation felt that a woman should appear in arms against Athens.
		He took a number of the Athenian heavy-armed troops, who had previously been stationed along the shore of Salamis, and, landing with them on the islet of Psyttaleia, slew all the Persians by whom it was occupied.
	www.irantarikh.com /persia/hist8.htm (15858 words)

	Kolbe's Greatest Books: Cardinal John Henry Newman, the Idea of a University
		The deep pastures of Arcadia, the plain of Argos, the Thessalian vale, these had not the gift; Boeotia, which lay to its immediate north, was notorious for its very want of it.
		The Athenian did not condescend to manufactures himself, but encouraged them in others; and a population of foreigners caught at the lucrative occupation both for home consumption and for exportation.
		It was the boast of the philosophic statesman of Athens, that his countrymen achieved by the mere force of nature and the love of the noble and the great, what other people aimed at by laborious discipline; and all who came among them were submitted to the same method of education.
	www.greatestbooks.org /chanceryweb/web/doclibrary/newmanuniversity.htm (8212 words)

	Phocis -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In the fertile Cephissus River valley, between the two mountain ranges, lay most of the Phocian settlements: Amphicleia (or Amphicaea), Tithorea, Elatea, Hyampolis, Abae, and Daulis.
		A mountain spur running south from Mount Parnassus to the gulf separated the city of Crisa and its port, Cyrrha, on the Crisaean plain from the port city of Anticyra.
		Its early history is obscure; Phocis was mainly pastoral, and the population was thought to be of the Aeolians, one of the earliest Greek-speaking peoples in the peninsula.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9059748 (796 words)

	The chiefs disposed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		As some great bull that lords it over the herds upon the plain, even so did Jove make the son of Atreus stand peerless among the multitude of heroes.
		And they that held the strong city of Athens, the people of great Erechtheus, who was born of the soil itself, but Jove's daughter, Minerva, fostered him, and established him at Athens in her own rich sanctuary.
		The men of Argos, again, and those who held the walls of Tiryns, with Hermione, and Asine upon the gulf; Troezene, Eionae, and the vineyard lands of Epidaurus; the Achaean youths, moreover, who came from Aegina and Mases; these were led by Diomed of the loud battle-cry, and Sthenelus son of famed Capaneus.
	www.catsis.net /ncatsis17.html (1224 words)

	W.M. Leake, Travels in Northern Greece Vol. II, chapter 13-3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Two or three of them, however, follow me in crossing the plain to the Paleó-kastro, and show me a large quantity of small gilt copper coins, of the lower empire, which were a part of the treasure.
		During the Sacred or Phocic war it was attempted by Onomarchus the Phocian without success, was taken by Phalæcus his son, who succeeded to the command of the Phocians on the death of Phayllus, and was speedily retaken by the Boeotians.
		On the one hand the chariots of the enemy and the superiority of his cavalry, rendered it hazardous to meet him in the plains of Boeotia: on the other, Attica was unable long to afford supplies, especially when Archelaus, occupying Munychia with his fleet, had prevented their arrival by sea.
	esf.niwi.knaw.nl /esf1996/leake/html/ch13_3.htm (2499 words)

	Greek Mythology: CEPHISUS / KEPHISOS River God of Attica, Greece
		The second flowed from Mount Kithairon, through the Nysian plain, to enter the sea near the town of Eleusis.
		It is possible that the same river-god presided over the Kephisos River of northern Boiotia and the Kephisos stream of Argos.
		The most important neighbouring rivers were the twin streams of the Asopos to the north and west, and the Athenian Ilissos to the south.
	www.theoi.com /Potamos/PotamosKephisos2.html (265 words)

	HERODOTUS - THE HISTORY - FULL TEXT - THE EIGHTH BOOK - URANIA - Athenaeum Library of Philosophy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Right in front of the citadel, but behind the gates and the common ascent—where no watch was kept, and no one would have thought it possible that any foot of man could climb—a few soldiers mounted from the sanctuary of Aglaurus, Cecrops’ daughter, notwithstanding the steepness of the precipice.
		The Athenians say that Adeimantus, the Corinthian commander, at the moment when the two fleets joined battle, was seized with fear, and being beyond measure alarmed, spread his sails, and hasted to fly away; on which the other Corinthians, seeing their leader’s ship in full flight, sailed off likewise.
		As soon as the sea-fight was ended, the Greeks drew together to Salamis all the wrecks that were to be found in that quarter, and prepared themselves for another engagement, supposing that the king would renew the fight with the vessels which still remained to him.
	evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com /herodotus08.htm (15599 words)

	The Builder Magazine - July 1919 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		THE Eleusinian Mysteries, observed by nearly all Greeks, but particularly by the Athenians, were celebrated yearly at Eleusis, though in the earlier annals of their history, they were celebrated once in every three years only, and once in every four years by the Celeans, Cretans, Parrhasians, Pheneteans, Phliasians, and Spartans.
		Not being Athenians they were ineligible for the honour of initiation, but the difficulty was overcome by Eumolpus, who was desirous of including in the ranks of the initited a man of such power and eminence as Hercules, foreigner though he might be.
		During the Peliponnesian war the Athenians were unable to obtain an armistice from the Lacedaemonians who held Decelea and it became necessary to send the statue of Iacchos and the processionists to Eleusis by sea.
	www.phoenixmasonry.org /the_builder_1919_july.htm (13835 words)

	Plutarch: Sayings of kings and commanders (2)
		The Athenians made friendship and alliance with Alexander the tyrant of Pherae, who was an enemy to the Thebans, and who had promised to furnish them with meat at half an obol a pound.
		He called their country, which was plain and open, the stage of war, which they could keep no longer than their hands were upon their shields.
		And Terentius followed him when he triumphed, wearing the cap of one that was made free ; and when he died, Scipio gave wine mingled with honey to those that were at the funeral, and performed other funeral rites in his honour.
	www.attalus.org /old/sayings2.html (10383 words)

	Poseidon
		Poseidon began the contest by pounding the ground with his trident, thus causing a spring of seawater to flow across the Athenian Acropolis.
		The city was given to the goddess and once again Poseidon punished the unfortunate residents by flooding the plain of Attica.
		peace, the Athenians continued to honor both Athena and Poseidon on the Acropolis where both their gifts can still be seen to this day.
	www.geocities.com /medea19777/poseidon.html (2471 words)

	contents
		He was the son of the blue nymph Leiriope and was conceived when she was raped by the river god Cephissus.
		Lysander annihilated the Athenian fleet (except for nine ships) at Aegospotami in 405 B.C., and, following a blockade of a few months, Athens surrendered unconditionally in 404 B.C. Sparta then became the supreme arbiter of Greece, and the hegemony passed from a democratic to an autocratic government.
		Although the Peloponnesian War had been begun under the pretext of "liberating the Greeks" from the tyranny of Athens, at the close of the war Sparta began the systematic establishment of oligarchic cliques of her own throughout Greece.
	web.fccj.org /~hdenson/den211-pt3.html (7265 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Her arms were spread above her head, and fastened to the rock with chains of brass; and her head drooped on her bosom, either with sleep, or weariness, or grief.
		And yet it was not altogether a dream; for the goat-skin with the head was in its place; but the sword, and the cap, and the sandals were gone, and Perseus never saw them more.
		And their hearts yearned for the dear old mountain, as they thought of pleasant days gone by, and of the sports of their boyhood, and their hunting, and their schooling in the cave beneath the cliff.
	debian.mirrors.tds.net /pub/gutenberg.org/etext96/ghros10.txt (16744 words)

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