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	The Avalon Project : Federalist No 38
		IT IS not a little remarkable that in every case reported by ancient history, in which government has been established with deliberation and consent, the task of framing it has not been committed to an assembly of men, but has been performed by some individual citizen of preeminent wisdom and approved integrity.
		Minos, we learn, was the primitive founder of the government of Crete, as Zaleucus was of that of the Locrians.
		Theseus first, and after him Draco and Solon, instituted the government of Athens.
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/federal/fed38.htm (2713 words)

	Ancient coins of Locri
		The coins of the Locrians, which appear to be subsequent to the battle of Chaeroneia, resemble for the most part in their types those already described, although they are distinctly later in style, but instead of ΟΠΟΝΤΙΩΝ they bear the legends ΛΟΚΡΩΝ ΥΠΟΚ (in mon.), ΛΟΚΡ, ΛΟ, or ΛΟΚΡ ΕΠΙΚΝΑ (B. Cent.
		I am inclined to think that these types were designed for the Opuntians at the Syracusan mint, and that the dies (for the first issue at any rate) were executed there.
		Scarpheia was an ancient Locrian city mentioned by Homer (Il.
	www.snible.org /coins/hn/locris.html (508 words)

	Zaleucus - LoveToKnow 1911
		According to the common story, the Locrians consulted the Delphic oracle as to a remedy for the disorder and lawlessness that were rife amongst them.
		One of the most important provisions was that the punishment for different offences was definitely fixed, instead of being left to the discretion of the judge before whom a case was tried.
		After the code was firmly established, the Locrians introduced a regulation that, if a citizen interpreted a law differently from the cosmopolis (the chief magistrate), each had to appear before the council of One Thousand with a rope round his neck, and the one against whom the council decided was immediately strangled.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Zaleucus (500 words)

	Opus - LoveToKnow 1911
		OPUS ('07roO), in ancient Greece, the chief city of the Opuntian Locrians; the walls of the town may still be seen on a hill about 6 m.
		It is mentioned in the Homeric catalogue among the towns of the Locrians, who were led by Ajax Oileus; and there were games called Aiantea and an altar at Opus in honour of Ajax.
		The Locrians deserted the Greek side in the Persian Wars; they were among the allies of Sparta in the Peloponnesian War.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /opus (188 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Aetolia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Aetolia is a division of Greece, bounded on the west by Acarnania, from which it was separated by the river Achelous; on the north by Epirus and Thessaly; on the east by the Ozolian Locrians[?]; and on the south by the entrance to the Corinthian Gulf[?].
		It was divided into two parts: Old Aetolia, from the Achelous to the Evenus[?] and Calydon[?]; and New Aetolia, or the Acquired, from the Evenus and Calydon to the Ozolian Locrians.
		On the coast the country is level and fruitful, but in the interior mountainous and unproductive.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/ae/Aetolia (318 words)

	Locris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The territory of the Locrians was thus divided into two by Doris and Phocis, perhaps due to an early invasion of a contiguous Locrian state.
		This fact, combined with the region's infertility, meant that the Locrians tended to be dominated by their neighbours, and played little part in Greek history.
		In the 7th century BC, some Locrians founded the city of Locri in southern Italy, naming it after their native land, although there is some disagreement over whether it was those from Opuntian Locris or from Ozolian Locris who were responsible.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/locris (288 words)

	Nossis and Women’s Cult at Locri
		Redfield postulates that the Locrian fusion of nuptial and funerary imagery reflects an Orphic concept of marriage and death as parallel rites of passage, each involving transformation to a blessed state (367–69, 384–85).
		On the two sides of the Ludovisi throne—securely attributed on artistic grounds to a Locrian sculptor and even ascribed a provenience from the temple at Marasà—two female figures are shown worshipping the goddess.
		After they [the Locrians] had lived under good laws for a very long time, Dionysius, on being banished from the country of the Syracusans, abused them most lawlessly of all men.
	www.stoa.org /diotima/essays/fc04/Skinner.html (3287 words)

	Locri
		Locri Epizefiri was founded in 680 BC[?] on the shores of the Ionian Sea, near Capo Zefirio[?] (from the name of a wind), by the Locrians, apparently by Opuntii (East Locrians) from the city of Opus[?], but including Ozolae (West Locrians) and Lacedaemonians.
		In the first half of 5th century BC, the Locrians destroyed the archaic temple and rebuilt a new temple in the Ionic style.
		The temple was designed by Syracusean architects around 470 BC based on the idea of Hiero I of Syracuse.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/lo/Locri.html (338 words)

	US Bazaar.com : Encyclopedia Pages : Locri
		Locri is a town and commune in the province of Reggio Calabria, Calabria, southern Italy.
		Locri Epizephyri (epi-Zephyros, under the West Wind; see also List of traditional Greek place names) was founded about 680 BC on the Italian shores of the Ionian Sea, near modern Capo Zefirio, by the Locrians, apparently by Opuntii (East Locrians) from the city of Opus, but including Ozolae (West Locrians) and Lacedaemonians.
		In the first half of 5th century BC, the Locrians demolished their archaic temple and rebuilt a new temple in the Ionic style.
	encyclopedia.us-bazaar.com /?title=Locri (557 words)

	339. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		Aeschines, in a brilliant speech, diverted the council's attention by bringing charges against the Locrians of Amphissa.
		The Fourth Sacred War was fought against the Locrians of Amphissa.
		The Amphictyonic Council gave command of the League's forces to Philip, and in response the Athenians made an anti-Macedonian alliance with Thebes.
	www.bartleby.com /67/205.html (374 words)

	Gutenkarte » The History of the Peloponnesian War » Chapter 12
		After devastating the country the Locrian land forces retired, their ships remaining to guard Messina, while others were being manned for the same destination to carry on the war from thence.
		About the same time in the spring, before the corn was ripe, the Peloponnesians and their allies invaded Attica under Agis, the son of Archidamus, king of the Lacedaemonians, and sat down and laid waste the country.
		After this the Locrians retired from the Rhegian territory, and the ships of the Syracusans and their allies united and came to anchor at Cape Pelorus, in the territory of Messina, where their land forces joined them.
	www.gutenkarte.org /section/7142/12 (4913 words)

	What did the Locrian maidens know about sex differences?
		One reason it may be hard to think like the Locrians today is that we tend to be obsessed with overcoming difference.
		And the Locrians solved the problem in an unusual way, he explained.
		In their inward focus and emphasis on the joy and status of married life, the Locrians seem to have rejected power in favor of happiness.
	chronicle.uchicago.edu /040205/locrian.shtml (696 words)

	Doris (Greece) at AllExperts
		There was an important mountain pass leading across Parnassus from Doris to Amphissa in the country of the Ozolian Locrians: at the head of this pass stood the Dorian town of Cytinium.
		Doris is said to have been originally called Dryopis from its earlier inhabitants the Dryopes, who were expelled from the country by Heracles and the Malians.
		By this description is evidently meant the whole country along the northern shore of the Corinthian gulf, comprising Aetolia, Phocis, and the land of the Ozolian Locrians.
	en.allexperts.com /e/d/do/doris_(greece).htm (1174 words)

	Faction Preview No 10: The Locrians - Total War Center Forums
		The Locrians most beloved their great semi-mythical Hero, Ajax the Locrian, or Ajax the Lesser, one of the two heroes with the same name that fought against the Trojans (the other being Ajax the Telamonian from the island of Salamis).
		Then defiantly and courageously, the Locrian shouted to the Gods that he will be saved and return to his home, whether they like it or not, Poseidon was so outraged by Ajax's arrogance, that he smote the rock with his trident and split it in two, and Ajax fell into the sea and perished.
		The Opountian Locrians sent all their available army to Thermopylae and before the battle started, and at the moment of desperation and indescision before the beginning of the battle, when most of the Peloponnesians wanted to retreat before the number of Persians, supported Leonidas' decision to stand ground against the invaders.
	www.twcenter.net /forums/showthread.php?t=47196 (1510 words)

	Naupactus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Greek legend it appears as the place where the Heraclidae built a fleet to invade the Peloponnesus.
		In historical times it belonged to the Ozolian Locrians; but about 455 BC, in spite of a partial resettlement with Locrians of Opus, it fell to the Athenians, who peopled it with Messenian refugees and made it their chief naval station in western Greece during the Peloponnesian war.
		In 404 it was restored to the Locrians, who subsequently lost it to the Achaeans, but recovered it through Epaminondas.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/naupactus (844 words)

	Justin: Epitome of the Philippic History of Pompeius Trogus, Book 20
		The Locrians, seized with alarm, had recourse to the Spartans, begging their assistance with humble entreaties.
		While the Locrians were fighting, an eagle constantly attended on their army, and continued flying about them till they were conquerors.
		Dionysius the tyrant, who, we have said, had transported an army from Sicily into Italy, and made war upon the Greeks there, proceeded, after taking Locri by storm, to attack the Crotonians, who, in consequence of their losses in the former war, were scarcely recovering their strength in a long peace.
	www.forumromanum.org /literature/justin/english/trans20.html (1469 words)

	Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian Wars (Hobbes trans.) Vol. 1: The Online Library of Liberty
		The Locrians had now also entered the lands of the Rhegians with their whole power; both because they would hinder them from assisting the Messanians, and because they were solicited thereunto by the banished men of Rhegium that were with them.
		And after they had wasted the country, the Locrians withdrew their landforces; but their galleys lay still at the guard of Messana, and more were setting forth, to lie in the same harbour, to make the war on that side.
		After this the Locrians departed out of the territory of the Rhegians; and the fleet of the Syracusians and their confederates came together to an anchor at Peloris1, and had their land–forces by them.
	oll.libertyfund.org /Texts/Hobbes0123/Works/HTMLs/Vol08/0051-08_Pt05_Book4.html (11942 words)

	Aetolia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Aetolia is a division of Greece, bounded on the west by Acarnania, from which it was separated by the river Achelous; on the north by Epirus and Thessaly; on the east by the Ozolian Locrians; and on the south by the entrance to the Corinthian Gulf.
		It was divided into two parts: Old Aetolia, from the Achelous to the Evenus and Calydon; and New Aetolia, or the Acquired, from the Evenus and Calydon to the Ozolian Locrians.
		On the coast the country is level and fruitful, but in the interior mountainous and unproductive.
	www.icyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/a/ae/aetolia.html (305 words)

	Locris
		Mythology knows of a Locrus, eponym of the Locrians, variously related to Amphictyon, a son of Deucalion (he is at times his son, at times his great-grandson).
		It is as a result of a fight between Locrus and his son Opus that the former decided to leave the throne to his son and move with some of his subjects to another country, eventually to settle on the western slopes of Mount Parnassus, in what became Ozolian Locris.
		Ozolian Locrians, toward the end of the VIIth century B. C., founded the city of Locri in southern Italy, giving it, and the nearby region, the name of their former country.
	plato-dialogues.org /tools/loc/locris.htm (480 words)

	Mara Dabrishus
		For 1,000 years the Locrians must send unmarried maidens to the temple of Athena at Ilion where they will stay until they die.
		The oracle demands a yearly tribute that the Locrians failed to send, and then the plague came on Locris.
		Also it is contradicted by the fact that the god of Delphi was upset with the Locrians.
	www.uark.edu /campus-resources/dlevine/Oxford11.html (760 words)

	ItalianMade.com - WINES: Greco di Bianco DOC
		Greco di Bianco is made from the variety of the same name, which appears to have been imported from Greece in the 8th century BC.
		The antiquity of the wine is confirmed by a legend, according to which a force of 10,000 Locrians took sufficient strength and courage from copious draughts of the local wine to defeat an army of 130,000 men from Croton in 560 BC.
		The mythological tradition gives credit to divine as well as enological assistance, for Castor and Pollux were said to have been sent by Apollo to fight at the side of the Locrians.
	www.italianmade.com /wines/DOC10165.cfm (200 words)

	Hellenica - Chapter V
		Then Androcleidas and his friends lost no time in persuading the Thebans to assist the Locrians, on the ground that it was no debatable district which had been entered by the Phocians, but the admittedly friendly and allied territory of Locris itself.
		In claiming assistance they explained that the war was not of their own seeking, but that they had attacked the Locrians in self- defence.
		On their side the Lacedaemonians were glad enough to seize a pretext for marching upon the Thebans, against whom they cherished a long-standing bitterness.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/lit/historical/Hellenica/chap17.html (2062 words)

	The Locrian Ensemble - One of the busiest and most sought-after of all British musical groups
		Paddy was so dedicated to the role that he decided to have a full body wax to get into the part, and went around all his colleagues in the musical world, getting sponsorship for the ordeal.
		Typical of Paddy, he thought the waxing should be filmed, and he turned up at the beauty salon complete with cameraman and sound engineer, much to the astonishment of onlookers.
		One of the great joys for us Locrians was that because the ensemble remained largely the same personnel for the duration of the tour, we only had to do a very swift sound check when we arrived at a new venue, instead of a full rehearsal.
	www.locrianensemble.co.uk /pearsonsmar04.htm (1952 words)

	Locrian Chamber Players
		"The Locrian Chamber Players is an ensemble that only plays music written within the last ten years, and so these fine musicians are considered new-music champions.
		In the days when the great Classical works were being written, such devotion to the new was the norm; a group that concentrated on music older than ten years would have seemed quite odd.
		"You have to admire the young musicians in the Locrian Chamber Players, not only because they devote themselves exclusively to music that is less than a decade old, but because they put their own compositions on the line as well, offering them alongside works by more established composers."
	locrian.org /reviews.html (200 words)

	THE HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR - THUCYDIDES - FULL TEXT - BOOK FOUR - THE ATHENAEUM LIBRARY OF PHILOSOPHY
		The Syracusans also wished to try their fortune at sea, seeing that the Athenians had only a few ships actually at Rhegium, and hearing that the main fleet destined to join them was engaged in blockading the island.
		Here the Athenians and Rhegians sailed up, and seeing the ships unmanned, made an attack, in which they in their turn lost one vessel, which was caught by a grappling iron, the crew saving themselves by swimming.
		At length in both parts of the field, disturbed by this panic, and with their line broken by the advancing Thebans, the whole Athenian army took to flight.
	evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com /thucydides04.htm (11686 words)

	BOOK XIII Page 6
		The Boeotians and the Ionians with their long tunics, the Locrians, the men of Phthia, and the famous force of the Epeans could hardly stay Hector as he rushed on towards the ships, nor could they drive him from them, for he was as a wall of fire.
		The chosen men of the Athenians were in the van, led by Menestheus son of Peteos, with whom were also Pheidas, Stichius, and stalwart Bias; Meges son of Phyleus, Amphion, and Dracius commanded the Epeans, while Medon and staunch Podarces led the men of Phthia.
		Many and brave comrades followed the son of Telamon, to relieve him of his shield when he was overcome with sweat and toil, but the Locrians did not follow so close after the son of Oileus, for they could not hold their own in a hand-to-hand fight.
	www.web-books.com /classics/Poetry/Homer_Iliad/Homer_IliadC13P6.htm (1181 words)

	Locri Epizephyrii, Welcome to Magna Graecia - Geographical Position (Site not responding. Last check: )
		But, as it is said, the Locrians took the oath after had strewn the inside sole of their shoes with some soil and had put on their shoulders, well hidden, some heads of garlic.
		Then Ianchina's native camp was destroyed; finally Locri Epizephyrii's settlers (we are now between the end of the VIII century b.C. and the beginning of the VII century b.C.) could start to build their city, 25 km to the north of the site where they had arrived some years before.
		Anyway, in the name of the city remained a reference to the site of their arrival; as the matter of fact, Oi Lokroi Oi Epizephyrioi is a plural form that can be translated this way: The Locrians who live next to the Zephyrium.
	www.locriantica.it /english/geography.htm (462 words)

	RealClearPolitics - Commentary - Oil's Law of Unintended Effects by George Will
		``A Locrian who proposed any new law stood forth in the assembly of the people with a cord round his neck, and if the law was rejected, the innovator was instantly strangled.''
		He recently got 34 colleagues, none of them Republicans, to vote for his measure to punish oil companies for earning profits which, relative to revenues, were unimpressive.
		Because the average price of a gallon of gasoline has swiftly plunged from the post-Katrina high of $3.07 to $2.15 (compared to $185.60 for a gallon of Starbucks espresso), the recurring populist fever that always follows oil price spikes has broken.
	www.realclearpolitics.com /Commentary/com-12_4_05_GW.html (734 words)

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