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	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 503 (v. 3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Porus immediately despatched his son, with a select body of cavalry, to check the inarch of the invaders, while he himself followed with all his best troops.
		Porus displayed much skill and judgment in the disposition of his forces, but his schemes were baffled by the superior generalship of his adversary, and his whole army at length thrown into confusion.
		Hereupon Porus surrendered, and was conducted to the conqueror, of whom he proudly demanded to be treated in a manner Avorthy of a king.
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	AMystical1...The Craft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The female personification of a Greek ritual object: a branch of olive wood, twined with wool and hung with fruits, which was carried in festivals by children with two living parents.
		The Greek goddess of the harvest, fertility, and spring.
		Greek mythology, Prometheus was the titan who stole fire from the gods and gave it to humans, along with the arts and civilization.
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	Titans 2 - Minor Greek Gods - Crystalinks
		Greeks could have borrowed this name for the ocean and called it Atlantic, and later used its root ATL to form the name Atlas."Atlas" is also the presently used name of many objects and places (see Atlas (disambiguation)).
		Dione in Greek mythology is a vague goddess presence who has her most concrete form in Book V of Homer's Iliad as the mother of Aphrodite: Aphrodite journeys to Dione's side after she has been wounded in battle while protecting her favorite son Aeneas.
		In Greek mythology, Epimetheus was the son of Iapetus and brother of Prometheus and Atlas; "Epimetheus" is Greek for "hindsight."
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	Minor Greek Gods and Goddesses - Crystalinks
		Asclepius was the god of medicine and healing in ancient Greek mythology, according to which he was born a mortal but was given immortality as the constellation Ophiuchus after his death.
		In Greek mythology, Erebus, or Erebos was a primordial god, personification of darkness, offspring of Chaos alone.
		In Greek mythology, Eros was the god responsible for lust, love, and sex; he was also worshipped as a fertility deity.
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	Porus - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia
		King Porus, the Greek version of the Indian names Puru, Pururava, Purushotthama or Parvata, was the ruler of a Kingdom in Punjab located between the Jhelum and the Chenab (in Greek, the Hydaspes and the Acesines) rivers in the Punjab.
		Porus was said to be "5 cubits tall", either the implausible 7˝ ft (2.3 m) assuming an 18-inch cubit, or the more likely 6 ft (1.8 m) if a 14-inch Macedonian cubit was meant.
		Greek tradition however records that he was assassinated, sometime between 321 and 315 BC, by the Thracian general Eudemus, who had remained in charge of the Macedonian armies in the Punjab:
	www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=Porus (626 words)

	Alexander of Macedonia
		The Greek mercenaries who were not massacred were send in chains back to Greece to work in the mines for the rest of their lives.
		Porus hoped only to hold up the Macedonian army's crossing of the Jhelum River until the monsoon rains would swell the river to the point that it would be impossible for the army to cross.
		Alexander's treatment of Porus fits in with mythology of the times; i.e., that monarchs are special, noble people ordained by the gods to rule and deserving of regal treatment even in defeat.
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	Eros (mythology) Summary
		Eros is represented in Greek literature as a beautiful youth, or later as a young boy, and as the son or attendant of Aphrodite, the goddess who presided over sexual union.
		In Greek mythology, Eros was the primordial god responsible for lust, love, and sex; he was also worshipped as a fertility deity.
		Thus his statue could be found in the palaestras, one of the principal venues for men to associate with their beloveds, and it was to him that the Spartans sacrificed before battle.
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	Roman Mythology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology is a encyclopedia/biographical dictionary.
		Porus (Roman mythology) - In Roman mythology, Porus was the god of abundance.
		Greek and Roman Mythology - Greek and Roman Mythology Handbook of Ancient Greek and Roman Coins The Handbook of Ancient Greek greek and roman mythology and Roman Coins combines the two main references that collectors have depended on for nearly forty years in the study of ancient Greek greek and roman mythology and Roman coins.
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	Wikipedia: Poros
		Poros is a small Greek island-pair in the southern part of the Saronic Gulf, at a distance about 32 miles south from Piraeus and separated from the Peloponnese by a 200-metre wide sea channel.
		During the Ottoman occupation Poros remained independent, helping however, neighbouring islands after the breakout of the Greek War of Independence.
		The picturesque town of Poros with its beautiful neoclassical buildings is built amphitheatrically on the slopes of a hill.
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	Arrian Campaigns of Alexander (Anabasis) Summary
		It was written during the resurgence of Greek literature that began in the era of the accession in 117 CE of the philhellenic emperor Hadrian--the era also included the writers Appian, Pausanias, Galen, and Lucian.
		Porus is defeated, but AG restores him to sovereignty and reconciles him with Taxiles.
		AG in Babylon is met by Greek envoys, who receive from him Greek images and statues etc. taken from their land by Xerxes long ago.
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	AMystical1...The Craft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Her Greek mythology counterpart was Rhea, mother of the Olympian gods.
		Ovid called her the "goddess of a thousand works." Her Greek mythology counterpart was Athena, and Minerva too sprung fully grown, and fully armored, from the head of Jupiter.
		Daughter of Ceres, is the counterpart of the Greek goddess, Persephone.
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	Porus (mythology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Plato's Symposium, Porus, or Poros, was the personification of Plenty.
		This figure exists in Roman mythology as well, in which Porus is the personification of abundance.
		This article relating to Greek mythology is a stub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Porus_(Greek_mythology) (119 words)

	Who are the Zoroastrians
		This is a sister language to Sanskrit of India, and Greek and Latin of the West.
		Also, in both mythologies, two necessarily antagonistic forces (good and evil) and their contention has brought the material universe into being, in both cases a sacred cow is involved, in both cases the death of a sexless giant is involved (the first man, GayoMaretan in Zoroastianism).
		Cooper also says that Germanic mythology as we now have it is a late corruption of the original, Ragnarok was originally a purification after which the world was restored to its pristine state.
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	1Up India > History of India \| Indian History and Mythology
		The Greeks in turn conquered the Persians under leadership of Emperor Alexander, who swept through the country as far as the Beas River, where he defeated king Porus backed by an army of 200 elephants in 326 BC.
		While the Persians and Greeks subdued the Indus Valley and the northwest, Aryan-based kingdoms continued developing in the East.
		The Greeks returned in 150 BC and conquered Punjab, and by this time Buddhism was becoming so influential that the Greek king Menander became a Buddhist himself.
	www.1upindia.com /history (2600 words)

	Porus - Jatland Forums
		Or was " Porus " a Macedonian rendering of some other word, which is distorted and mutilated in greek texts and so comes down us, 2300 years later, translated and re translated as " Porus".
		Porus indian name was Puru and his kingdom was called paurava.
		Porus is also a mythical figure in Greek Mythology.
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	Macedonia for the Macedonians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Greek propagandists insist that the ancient Macedonians were Greek and therefore, Greece has the right to the name, Macedonia.
		In the course of the second pre-Christian millennium, the ancient Greeks descended in several migratory waves as goatherds and shepherds from the interior of the Balkans to Greece.
		Greek scholarship underestimates the migration of peoples, which fundamentally redrew the ethnic map of Europe, and especially of the Balkans, during the early Byzantine period.
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	Alexander the Great. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Meanwhile certain antagonisms had developed against Alexander; in Greece, for instance, many decried his execution of Aristotle’s nephew, the historian Callisthenes, and the Greek cities resented his request that they treat him as a god.
		Alexander’s Macedonian officers balked at his attempt to force them to intermarry with the Persians (he had himself married Roxana, a Bactrian princess, as one of his several wives), and they resisted his Eastern ways and his vision of an empire governed by tolerance.
		He influenced the spread of Hellenism throughout the Middle East and into Asia, establishing city-states modeled on Greek institutions that flourished long after his death.
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	Alexander the Great
		Macedonia was located in the northern part of the Greek peninsula.
		At the age of thirteen, Alexander was tutored by the famous Greek philosopher Aristotle for several years.
		Porus surrendered to Alexander, and they eventually became allies.
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	Alexander the great, ancient history, Greece, Macedonia
		The son of Philip II of Macedonia and queen Olympias, Alexander was born the same night the temple of Artemis in Ephesus was set on fire.
		He crossed the Hellespont with 35.000 Greek and Macedonian soldiers, and near the ancient city of Troy he defeated an army of 40.000 Persians and Greek mercenaries, losing only 110 men.
		Alexander let Porus continue ruling under him, and close to the battlefield he founded the city Bucephala in honour of his horse that had died there.
	www.in2greece.com /english/historymyth/history/ancient/alexander.htm (862 words)

	Metis (mythology)
		In Greek mythology, Metis ("wisdom") was a Titaness who was the first wife of Zeus and the mother of Athena.
		She was the goddess of wisdom and deep thought.
		One of the moons of the planet Jupiter was named for her in 1979.
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	War Goddess.net - Minor Deities
		The Charites are depicted as standing together nude, one facing to the left, one facing to the right, and the one in the center facing away from all of them.
		In Roman mythology, they were known as the Graces.
		Greek mythographers considered her to be a local renaming of the Queen Goddess Hera.
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	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 984 (v. 3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		327., His real name was Mophis, or Omphis, and the Greeks appear to have called him Taxiles or Taxilas, from the name of his capital city of Taxila, near the modern Attock.
		After that victory he was sent by Alexander in pursuit of Porus, to whom he was charged to offer favourable terms, but narrowly escaped losing his life at the hands of his old enemy.
		Subsequently, however, the two rivals were reconciled by the personal mediation of Alexander; and Taxiles, after having contributed zealously to the equipment of the fleet on the Hydaspes, was intrusted by the king with the government of the whole territory between that river and the Indus.
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	The Myth, Romance and Historicity of Alexander and His Influence on India
		Many times, attempts have been and are made to link the date of one personality with that of the other and one event with other, and if one does not suit the other, either way it is adjusted to come close together according to their predetermined hypotheses and theories.
		Whereas, there were Greek scholars who considered India as a land of knowledge, wealth and so on, and thus, later even mentioned as paradise on the earth.
		Greek geographers and other experts made Alexander to believe that he had reached the end of the world, after he crossed Persia.
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	The Greek Goddesses
		In Greek mythology, Alcmene was the mother of Heracles who, after she died, was worshipped as a Goddess in Thebes and Athens.
		Cybele wasn't technically a Greek goddess in that she came from Phrygia, but she was worshipped in Greece and Rome and a whole rack of other places, too so I think she should be here.
		Melissa is greek for "honey bee" and she was the name of Artemis as the moon goddess and the goddess who took suffering away from mothers giving birth.
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	Giants — Infoplease.com
		(1) Of Greek mythology, sons of Tartaros and Ge.
		(2) Of Scandinavian mythology, were evil genii, dwelling in Jötunheim (giantland), who had the power of reducing or extending their stature at will.
		PORUS was “5 cubits in height” (7 feet 6 inches).
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	The Greek Goddesses - Odyne through Volupta
		Potnia is just the Greek word for "mistress" and is put in front of a lot of things, especially if you're talking about Mothers, but it was also used (I imagine, but am not sure) in conjuction with various goddesses.
		In Orphic she was the "inescapable mother Rhea" who sat outside the house of Nyx beating a bronze drum and making sure all humans were paying attention the oracle of the goddess.
		In more classical mythology the Titaness Tethys was the wife of her brother Oceanus and by him the mother of the 3000 Oceanids and of all the river gods.
	www.paleothea.com /MinorsO-Z.html (2820 words)

	World Cultures Unit 2 - Ancient Greece
		The arrival of the Dorians marked the disruption of the earlier Greek culture and the beginning of a period of decline, sometimes known as the "Dark Ages".
		A9- Myron - A Greek sculptor in the 5th century B.C. Sculpting in bronze, he was noted for his animals (of which no examples have survived) and for his athletes in action.
		He was a pupil of Isaeus, and although the story of his putting pebbles in his mouth to improve his voice is only a legend, he seems to have been forced to overcome a weak voice and delivery.
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	29. King Asoka. Wells, H.G. 1922. A Short History of the World
		We have already mentioned how Alexander the Great came down into India and fought with Porus upon the Indus.
		It is related by the Greek historians that a certain Chandragupta Maurya came into Alexander’s camp and tried to persuade him to go on to the Ganges and conquer all India.
		B.C.) Chandragupta was able to secure the help of various hill tribes and realize his dream without Greek help.
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