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3784
Ἄργουσα
Argoura, Argousa
… name, all other sources (including Stephanus of Byzantium) agree, was
Argoura,
not the Suda's
Argousa
(or in one manuscript
Argousai).
For Euboia see generally epsilon 3382; for Chalkis see under chi 43 and chi …
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3781
Ἀργόλαι
argolai, snakes
… type of snakes, which the Macedonian Alexander brought from Pelasgian
Argos
[Myth, Place] to Alexandria and threw into the river for the destruction of the cobras, when he moved the bones of the prophet …
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3766
Ἀργεία
Argeia
On
Argos
[Myth, Place], in the NE Peloponnese, see generally OCD(4) p.149, s.v.
'Argos(1)'
and Barrington Atlas map 58 grids D2-E2. Hera was the principal deity there: OCD(4) pp.149-50, s.v.
Argos,
cults'. The Argive …
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210
Δελφοί
Delphi, Delphoi
… pi 3137, pi 3138. [1] See e.g. Apollonius of Rhodes,
Argonautica
2.705-6. [2] The verb pu/qesqai (pi 3138) means "to decay". For this material cf. the scholia to Homer, Iliad 9.405, where the phrase …
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1263
Ἀλίφειρα
Alipheira, Aliphira
… often-contested region (cf. Pausanias 3.2.2-3, web address 3) between the
Argolid
(the region surrounding
Argos
[Myth, Place], cf. alpha 3766) to the north and Lakedaimonia (the region around Sparta, cf. lambda 49) to the …
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1175
Διονύσιος
Dionysios, Dionysius
… Leather-worker. [He wrote] the Expedition of Dionysos and Athena, [and]
Argonauts
in 6 books. These works are in prose: Fables for Parmenon.
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12
Ἰάκωβος
Iacobos, Jacob
… father went to Rhodes, then to Drepanon, the one in
Argos
[Myth, Place]; and when he came there he married the woman who bore Jacob to him. Then he left his wife and the …
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19
Ἀβαρνίς
Abarnis
… (74), and cf. more generally the scholia to Apollonius Rhodius,
Argonautica
1.932 (where the genitive case occurs), on which see further below. Abarnis lay on the southern shore of the Propontis (Sea of Marmara), …
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3419
Ἀπολλώνιος
Apollonios, Apollonius
… appears also on page 5 of his commentary on the
Argonautika:
Apollonios Rhodios,
Argonautika.
Trans. Peter Green. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. [1] Cf. sigma 412. [2] See generally kappa 227. [3] See …
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1862
Ἀναδρομαί
retreats, returns
… Pyrrhus the king of the Epeirotes and his invasion into
Argos
[Myth, Place] and the expedition of Lysimachus through Thrace against Dromichaites the king of the Odryssians; also many other [situations] like these."
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4011
Ἁρποκρατίων
Harpokration, Harpocration
Of
Argos
[Myth, Place]. Platonic philosopher. Companion/confidant of a Caesar. He wrote a Commentary on Plato (24 books); Lexicon to Plato (2 books).
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4309
Ἀταλάντη
Atalante, Atalanta
… was friends, thanks to having been their shipmate on the
Argo;
and he seized Iolkos and killed the wife of Akastos.
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45
Αἰγιεῖς οὔτε τρεῖς οὔτε τέσσαρες
Aigians (are) neither three nor four
… in reference to the excessively paltry. For the Aigians in
Argos
[Myth, Place], after they had beaten the Aitolians, asked the Pythia who were [the best of Greeks]. She responded to them: "Aigians [are] …
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121
Βάρος
weight, influence, gravitas, dignity
… fortification of Sikyon and the influence of the city of
Argos
[Myth, Place] [Aemilius] came to Epidauros". And elsewhere: "they busied themselves with the detail of the position and influence of the city [of …
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250
Δέρας
skin
… Jason took after coming through the Black Sea with the
Argonauts
into Colchis, and [sc. taking also] Medea the daughter of the king Aietes. This was not as is reported in poetry, but it …
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513
Διαβιασάμενος
having overcome by force
… force, by means of his earlier habits, he came from
Argos
[Myth, Place] to Megalopolis on the same day."
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290
Εἰς Κυνόσαργες
into Cynosarges, into Kynosarges
… children. It is so named from a dog [which was]
argos,
which means white or swift. For [it is said that] when [some people] were sacrificing to Heracles a white or swift dog, an …
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53
Ἰάσων
Jason, Iason
Of
Argos
[Myth, Place]. Historian, younger than Plutarch of Chaeronea. Grammarian. He wrote On Greece in 4 books: this comprises (1) the ancient history of Greece, (2) events after the Persian wars, (3) events …
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320
Ἴλιον
Ilion, Ilium, Troy
The city of Phrygia. "When the affair of the
Argonauts
was over, the Red (Erythraean) Sibyl gave an oracle to the Greeks: [...]. In the territory of the Phrygians Tros, the father of Ilus …
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453
Ἰώ
Io
A name. Inachos, a king of
Argos
[Myth, Place], founded a city which he named for the moon, "Io", for that is what Argives call the moon. He also had a daughter Io; Pekos …
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591
Ἵπυς
Hipys, Hippys
… Sicily, 5 books, Chronologies [likewise] in 5 books; History of
Argos
[Myth, Place] in 3. This man was the first to write parodies and choliambics and other [such] things.
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636
Ἴσις
Isis
… [sc. also] called Io. She was snatched by Zeus from
Argos
[Myth, Place] and he, fearing Hera, changed her first into a white cow, then into a black one, and then into one that …
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15
Ἀβάντειος
Abanteios, Abantius, Abantian
… fact almost certainly A. the son of Lynkeus, king of
Argos
[Myth, Place] after Danaos and father of the twins Akrisios and Proitos (Pausanias 2.16.2 (web address 1); Apollodorus, Library 2.2.1 (web address 2)). …
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1298
Ἀλκυονίδες ἡμέραι
Alcyon days, Halcyon days, kingfisher days
… cry was taken as one of ill-omen (e.g. Apollonius Rhodius,
Argonautica
1.1085). [1] cf. the scholia to Aristophanes, Birds 250. [2] The halcyon days were associated with a habit of nesting and incubating for …
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2499
Ἀνθ' Ἑρμίωνος
instead of Hermione
… the Babylonians of Aristophanes. [1] At the tip of the
Argolid:
epsilon 3043.
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2501
Ἄνθεια
Antheia
… entry derives from Harpokration s.v. [1] In the Peloponnese, near
Argos
[Myth, Place], according to Stephanus of Byzantium. [2] cf. alpha 2644 (and phi 457). On the hetaira Anteia see Konstantinos Kapparis, Apollodoros 'Against …
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2504
Ἄνθεια
Antheia, Flowery
At
Argos
[Myth, Place] (Pausanias 2.22.1) and Miletos: see LSJ s.v.
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3415
Ἀπολλωνιάς
Apollonias, Apollonis
… I and brother of Attalos II. [2] Two brothers from
Argos
[Myth, Place], famous for devotion to their mother; their story is briefly told in kappa 2499.
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3791
Ἀργυρίππη
Argyrippe
… common. Chief city of the Daunians and also known as
Argos
[Myth, Place] Hippium.
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267
Αἴπει
height, high place, summit
… is dative singular, ai)/pei -- perhaps quoted from Apollonius Rhodius,
Argonautica
2.362, its only other extant instance. In any event it comes from the neuter noun ai)=pos, "high place." (The dative of the adjective …
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