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	Tyre City, Lebanon
		The priests of the city-god told him that the temple was built 2300 years previously when Tyre was founded, that is 2750 B.C. The Greeks believed that various aspects of their civilization had their origin in Tyre.
		The introduction of the alphabet into Greece was attributed to Cadmus of Tyre, and it was Europa, the sister of Cadmus, who gave her name to the continent.
		Elissa princess and daughter of king Mattan of Tyre city, extended Tyre's empire through the Mediterranean and founded Carthage in 814 B.C. Early in the 6th century B.C. Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, lay siege to the city for 13 years.
	tyros.leb.net /tyre (311 words)

	Pygmalion (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Pygmalion is a character in Greek mythology and a 1912 play by George Bernard Shaw.
		It is also the name of a king of Tyre who is possibly the person the mythological character is based on (see Pygmalion of Tyre).
		Pygmalion, son of Belus, was a lonely sculptor who made a woman out of ivory and called her Galatea.
	wapipedia.org /wikipedia/mobiletopic.aspx?cur_title=Pygmalion (477 words)

	"Tyre" by Robert I Bradshaw
		Tyre depended upon Israel for its food supply (Acts 12:20), while Israel made use of the two major assets of Tyre: its access to the sea-trading routes and its abundant supply of timber (1 Kings 5:8-11) (Patterson and Austel, 1988: 58).
		21:18-23) and Tyre in 586 (26-28; 29:17-20) (Miller and Hayes, 1986: 413).
		Joel and Amos record that Tyre through her slave trading was directly involved in the suffering of the people of Judah after 586 BC (Joel 3:2-6; Amos 1:9-10).
	www.biblicalstudies.org.uk /article_tyre.html (3718 words)

	Phoenician Colonies
		Phoenician settlements are known from Morro de Mezquitilla, Toscanos, and Guadalhorce and shrines from Gorham's Cave in Gibraltar and the Temple of Melqart on the island of Sancti Petri near Cadiz.
		After the fall of Tyre to the Babylonians in 573 BC and the subjugation of Phoenicia, the early prosperity faded until the 4th century.
		Phoenicians from the city of Tyre dwell all round memphis, and the whole place is known by the name of "the camp of the Tyrians." Within the enclosure stands a temple, which is called that of Venus the Stranger.
	www.phoenicia.org /colonies.html (2212 words)

	Carthage
		Pygmalion was a tyrant, lover of both gold and intrigue, and desired the authority and fortune enjoyed by Acherbas.
		Pygmalion assassinated Acherbas in the temple and managed to keep the misdeed concealed from his sister for a long time, deceiving her with lies about her husband's death.
		They were stimulated to found their cities by a need for revitalizing trade in order to pay the tribute extracted from Tyre, Sidon, and Byblos by the succession of empires that ruled them and by fear of complete Greek colonization of that part of the Mediterranean suitable for commerce.
	www.wikipedia-mirror.co.za /wiki/Carthage (7926 words)

	Pygmalion
		Pygmalion is a character of Greek mythology and a play by George Bernard Shaw.
		Pygmalion loved Galatea and they were soon married.
		A contemporary version of the Pygmalion motif can be found in Willy Russell's play Educating Rita (1980).
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/py/Pygmalion.html (383 words)

	Bangla Forum (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Pygmalion was a tyrant, lover of both gold and intrigue, and desired the authority and fortune enjoyed by Acherbas.
		Pygmalion assassinated Acherbas in the temple and managed to keep the misdeed concealed from his sister for a long time, deceiving her with lies about her husband's death.
		They were stimulated to found their cities by a need for revitalizing trade in order to pay the tribute extracted from Tyre, Sidon, and Byblos by the succession of empires that ruled them and by fear of complete Greek colonization of that part of the Mediterranean suitable for commerce.
	www.banglaforum.com /encyclopedia.html?title=Carthage (7814 words)

	dido - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		But on his death the people took Pygmalion alone as their ruler though Pygmalion was yet still a boy.
		Elissa married Acerbas her uncle who as priest of Hercules is, Melqart was second in power to King Pygmalion.
		First-born from King of Tyre, her succession was struggled from the minor brother, Pumayyaton/Pygmalion, who murdered her husband and imposed his tyranny.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/dido (2377 words)

	Garden Suburb Theatre: Home
		Pygmalion finished last night with a very large and appreciative audience, but we're moving straight on - auditions start tonight for Around the World in 80 Days, and The Old Masters is of course already in rehearsal.
		Alon Witztum (most recently seen as Ariel in The Tempest) will be performing in Pericles, Prince of Tyre at The Vanbrugh Theatre on Saturday 4th August as part of the RADA Youth Group.
		Performances are at 2.30 and 7.30 and the theatre is located at RADA on Malet Street.
	www.gardensuburbtheatre.org.uk (1463 words)

	Pygmalion - King of Tyre (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The last important king of Tyre, who defended his fortress city against Assyria and the advancing Greek colonists.
		He executed the priest husband of his sister Dido, who fled to North Africa where she founded, according to legend, the city of Carthage.
		In Greek mythology Pygmalion was a king of Cyprus who fell in love with a statue of the goddess Aphrodite.
	www.pygmalion.ws /stories/greek3.htm (71 words)

	Pygmalion - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Pygmalion
		In the story, the sculptor Pygmalion falls in love with his statue.
		As will be seen later on, Pygmalion needs, not a preface, but a sequel, which I have supplied in its due place.
		Even Pygmalion, when his sculptured woman assumed life, felt not greater ecstasy than mine will be.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Pygmalion (229 words)

	Saudi Aramco World : Delenda est Carthago (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In the early ninth century B.C., while a Phoenician king named Pygmalion ruled Tyre, his sister Elissa married her uncle Acherbas, one of the richest men in Tyre.
		Pygmalion, however, objecting to the marriage had Acherbas assassinated, and Elissa, with a band of citizens loyal to her husband, fled to Cyprus.
		Though Carthage was not a colony of Tyre, the two cities shared a common language, a common religion and long centuries of common history.
	www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/198503/delenda.est.carthago.htm (2283 words)

	Pygmalion of Tyre
		Pygmalion (also known as Pumayyaton) was king of Tyre from 820 to 774 BC.
		During Pygmalion's reign, Tyre seems to have shifted the heart of its trading empire from the Middle East to the Mediterranean, as can be judged from the building of new colonies, including Kition[?] on Cyprus and (according to tradition) Carthage.
		See also: Pygmalion, for the Greek mythological figure by the same name
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/py/Pygmalion_of_Tyre.html (76 words)

	Pygmalion - LoveToKnow 1911
		PYGMALION, in Greek mythology, son of Cilix, and grandson of Agenor, king of Cyprus.
		He fell in love with an ivory statue he had made; Aphrodite granted life to the image, and Pygmalion married the miraculously-born virgin (Ovid, illetam.
		Pygmalion is also the name given in Virgil (Aeneid, i, 347) to a king of Tyre, who murdered Sychaeus, the husband of his sister Dido.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Pygmalion (88 words)

	Tyre (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Tyre is also the British spelling of tire.
		Tyre (meaning a rock) is an ancient Phoenician city in Lebanon on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, about 23 miles, in a direct line, north of Acre, and 20 south of Sidon.
		Sidon was the oldest Phoenician city, but Tyre had a longer and more illustrious history.
	www.findword.org /ty/tyre.html (605 words)

	A History of Africa, Chapter 3
		When the Assyrians went after Tyre, they had to blockade it for nearly thirty years (701-672 B.C.), and in the end it appears that the main reason Tyre gave up was because its king saw no point in continuing the struggle any longer.
		She and her brother Pygmalion (no relation to Pygmalion the sculptor) were supposed to share the throne when their father, the king of Tyre, died; instead Pygmalion kept the throne for himself, killed Acerbas, the rich priest husband of Elissa, and tried to confiscate his wealth.
		From Tyre Elissa went to Cyprus, where she picked up a priest and eighty virgins to serve in the temple of Asherah she was planning to build at her destination.
	xenohistorian.faithweb.com /africa/carthage.html (9490 words)

	Rare Books Cookery: Friedrich Christian Accum (1821)
		Although the Jews were allowed to eat the flesh of the immolated beasts, in the golden age, man had not found courage and eppetite enough to eat the flesh of an innocent animal; but soon after, this cruelty extended to nearly all quadrupeds, except those whe were carnivorous.
		The process of potting consists in reducing cooked animal substances to a pulp, by beating the meat in a mortar, and incorporating the mass with a portion of salt and spices.
		The pulp is then put into a jar, and covered with a thick coat of melted butter or lard, to prevent the contact of air; and the surface is futher protected with a bladder-skin tied over the mouth of the jar.
	www.lib.ksu.edu /depts/spec/rarebooks/cookery/accum1821.html (1186 words)

	Elissar, Dido, the Queen of Carthage and her city
		Elissar or Elissa (Elishat, in Phoenician) was a princess of Tyre.
		According to Justin, Princess Elissar was the daughter of King Matten or Muttoial of Tyre (Belus II of classical literature).
		Tyrannical Pygmalion, a lover of gold and intrigue, was eager to be acquire the authority and fortune of Acherbas.
	phoenicia.org /elissardidobio.html (6170 words)

	Pygmalion of Tyre: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		Pygmalion of Tyre: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
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	www.encyclopedian.com /pu/Pumayyaton.html (139 words)

	AlShindagah Online
		But it was Tyre`s purple-dyed textiles, worn throughout the ancient world as a mark of royal rank, that bought fame and fortune to the city.
		The ancient Tyrians extracted the dye from the Murex, a marine snail that still lives along Tyre`s shores deep among the rocks and sunken archaeological remains.
		Elissar gathered her possessions and loyal Tyrian citizens who were fed up with Pygmalion’s rule and together left Tyre, sailed to the island of Cyprus and then to the north African coast, where they established Carthage.
	www.alshindagah.com /janfeb2003/woman.html (1660 words)

	Geographia: Asia and Africa
		Tyre (modern Sur) was a principal coastal city of southern Phoenicia.
		When her brother, Pygmalion, king of Tyre murdered her husband, Dido fled west and migrated to northern Africa, where she founded the city of Carthage.
		Dido fled with her sister Anna from Tyre, when her brother Pygmalion murdered her husband Sychaeus (she had actually married her uncle).
	www.timelessmyths.com /classical/asia.html (2948 words)

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		Timaeus made Carchedon's wife Elissa the sister of King Pygmalion of Tyre, and modern scholars still put Pygmalion (Pumayyaton) on the throne at that time, so Timaeus' date usually appears in modern chronologies as the normal dubious and legendary date for the founding of Carthage.
		So the whole story might be legendary or the synchronism between Elissa and Pygmalion might be legendary or archaeologists may have as yet missed important evidence for earlier settlement.
		First-born from King of Tyre, her succession was disputed by her younger brother, Pumayyaton/Pygmalion, who murdered her husband and imposed his rule.
	www.cannabisphotography.com /cannabis-strains.php?title=Dido (2480 words)

	LegendMUD: Aztecs (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Phoenicians had risen to power in the area of Tyre in the 11th c BC when the Hitite empire to the north relaxed its grip on the eastern Mediterranean Canaanite areas.
		Historically, the city was probably established as a trading post toward the end of the 9th century BC by Phoenicians from the Phoenician capital city of Tyre.
		Elissa's husband was killed by her brother King Pygmalion of Tyre.
	www.legendmud.org /Reference/areas/carthage.html (1003 words)

	History of Elissa, a Phoenician princess, from the August 1974 National Geographic—The Phoenicians, Sea Lords of ...
		In the harbor of ancient Tyre in southern Lebanon, the fisherman chant "El--eee--sa, El--eee--sa," as they haul in their nets.
		Her brother, the king of Tyre (Pygmalion), murdered her husband, the city's high priest.
		When she fled Tyre and later Cyprus, away from King Pgymalion, she took with her priests and temple maidens of Astarte.
	elissa.org /history.shtml (382 words)

	AlShindagah Online
		The site of ancient Carthage has been inherited by that modern nation but today it stands sadly shorn of the greatness that once made it the most important and prosperous city in the Phoenician Empire.
		n 814 BCE the city of Carthage was founded in present-day Tunisia by Queen Elissar, a former princess of Tyre.
		In just seven years, since their exodus from Tyre, the Carthaginians had built a successful kingdom under her rule.
	www.alshindagah.com /julaug2006/tunisia.html (2477 words)

	Europa Barbarorum (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Around 814 BC, Carthage - meaning 'new city,' was founded by the Tyrian Queen Elissa, fleeing the tyrrany of her brother King Pygmalion in Tyre.
		Her flight from the island city was prompted by her brother's assassination of her husband, the priest of Melqart, leading a number of prominent nobles and former royal attendants to accompany her in flight.
		After a three year siege, Carthage is completely razed, and would remain unoccupied until Caesar resttled the region more then a century later.
	www.europabarbarorum.com /factions_karthadastim_history.html (1545 words)

	Trojan Horse
		Pygmalion was described as a “wicked monster” and his actions were certainly wicked.
		Pygmalion secretly decided to kill him and keep it from Dido.
		Dido was very upset when she learned that her husband had been killed, but Sychaeus did not think of how Dido would react to the situation.
	personal.monm.edu /cdelre/trojan_horse.htm (1763 words)

	Elissa - Dido Legend of Carthage
		Unfortunately this legend was recorded by Greek and Roman writers, whose lands fought long wars with the Phoenicians.
		That led to a bitter description of the king of Tyre, a boy only eleven years of age, who could hardly have done many things told in the story.
		The amazing history of Carthage's growth to lead an empire of many rich colonies, and her tumultuous relationship with Greece and Rome, are explored in Chapters 17 – 22 of
	www.phoenician.org /elissa_dido_legend.htm (535 words)

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