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Aegospotami
Simon Hornblower
‘Goat’s rivers’ in the *Hellespont, probably an open beach somewhere opposite *Lampacus, scene of the final and decisive sea-battle of the *Peloponnesian war, a victory over the Athenians ...
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Agatharchides, of Cnidus, Greek historian, geographer, and Peripatetic philosopher, c. 215–after 145 BCE
Kenneth S. Sacks
Who lived most of his adult life in *Alexandria (1), eventually leaving, perhaps in flight to Athens after 145. He was not, as previously believed, regent to *Ptolemy (1) IX but was in the ...
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Antichthon/Antipodes
Alfred Hiatt
The terms antipodes and antichthones, along with others such as antoikoi and perioikoi, referred to hypothetical peoples dwelling beyond the extent of the known world. These terms were the product of ...
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Panskoye I
Vladimir F. Stolba
Panskoye I is one of the most prominent and best-studied settlements in the rural territory of Chersonesus on the Tarkhankut Peninsula (north-western Crimea). Founded in the late 5th ...
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Semos, of Delos, Greek antiquarian, c. 200 BCE
John Francis Lockwood and Kenneth S. Sacks
Semos of *Delos (c. 200 bce), Greek antiquarian, was a careful, scholarly compiler, whose geographical and antiquarian works include: Delias, an 8-book survey of the geography, antiquities, ...
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