Chionis of sparta biography of abraham
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Greek Colonisation: The Right to return
conceptualising early colonisation lieve donnellan, ed. Valentino nizzo gert-Jan burgers bruxelles - brussel - roma belgisch historisch instituut te rome institut historique belge dem rome istituto storico belga di roma 2016 © 2016 ihbr - bhir no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form eller gestalt, by print, photoprint, microilm or any other means without written permission of the copyright owner. d/2016/351/2 isbn 978-90-74461-82-5 Table of content Acknowledgments ............................................................................................................................... 7 l. donnellan & V. nizzo, Conceptualising early Greek colonisation. Introduction to the volume ... 9 r. osborne, Greek ‘colonisation’: what was, and what fryst vatten, at stake? .............................................. 21 i. malkin, Greek colonisation: he Right to Return .................................
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Eusebius' Chronicle
Eusebius of Caesarea, Chronicle, Book 1 (2008)
[Translated by Robert Bedrosian]
[1] I have perused diverse histories of the past which the Chaldeans and Assyrians have recorded, which the Egyptians [g1] have written in detail, and which the Greeks have narrated as accurately as possible. [These works] contain [information about] the times of kings and Olympiads (which translates "athletes"), about the brave deeds which were performed by barbarians and Greeks, by Aryans and non-Aryans [i.e., by peoples inside and outside the Iranian cultural world], and about the marvelous accomplishments of their generals, sages, braves, poets, storytellers, and philosophers. I thought it would be appropriate to write down everything in brief, especially the beneficial and important things, and further to put adjacent to [these accounts] the history of the Hebrew patriarchs as revealed in the Bible. And thus we might establish how long [g2] before the life-giving
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Sparta
City-state in ancient Greece
This article is about the ancient city-state. For modern-day Sparta, see Sparta, Laconia. For other uses, see Sparta (disambiguation).
"Spartan" redirects here. For other uses, see Spartan (disambiguation). For the mythical people associated with Ares, see Spartoi.
"Lacedaemon" redirects here. For the king, see Lacedaemon (mythology).
Sparta[1] was a prominent city-state in Laconia in ancient Greece. In antiquity, the city-state was known as Lacedaemon (Λακεδαίμων, Lakedaímōn), while the name Sparta referred to its main settlement in the valley of Evrotas river in Laconia, in southeastern Peloponnese. Around 650 BC, it rose to become the dominant military land-power in ancient Greece.
Given its military pre-eminence, Sparta was recognized as the leading force of the unified Greek military during the Greco-Persian Wars, in rivalry with the rising naval power of Athens. Sparta was the principal enemy of Athens during the P