(Encyclopedia) TegeaTegeatēˈjēə [key], ancient city of Greece, SE Arcadia, in the Peloponnesus. From the middle of the 6th cent. b.c. until the Spartan defeat at the battle of Leuctra (371 b.c.), it…
(Encyclopedia) Rostovtzeff, Michael IvanovichRostovtzeff, Michael Ivanovichrŏstŏvˈtsĕf [key], 1870–1952, American historian, b. Kiev, Ukraine. He studied at the Univ. of St. Petersburg where he was…
(Encyclopedia) KósKóskŏs, kôs [key], Lat. Cos, island (1991 pop. 26,379), 111 sq mi (287 sq km), SE Greece, in the Aegean Sea; 2d largest of the Dodecanese, near the Bodrum peninsula of Turkey.…
(Encyclopedia) ParnassósParnassóspärˌnäsôsˈ [key] or ParnassusParnassuspärnăˈsəs [key], mountain, c.8,060 ft (2,460 m) high, Phocis, central Greece. In ancient Greece it was sacred to Apollo,…
(Encyclopedia) Ezion-geberEzion-geberēˈzēŏn-gēˈbər [key] or Ezion-gaberEzion-geber–gāˈ– [key] [both: Heb.,=giant's backbone], ancient port, on the Gulf of Aqaba. The site, near Aqaba, is now some…
(Encyclopedia) city-state, in ancient Greece, Italy, and Medieval Europe, an independent political unit consisting of a city and surrounding countryside. The first city-states were in Sumer, but they…
(Encyclopedia) Mitchison, Naomi, 1897–1999, British writer, b. Scotland, educated at Oxford; daughter of the biologist J. S. Haldane. She wrote many types of novels on a variety of subjects. They…
(Encyclopedia) HeliconHeliconhĕlˈĭkŏn [key], Gr. Elikón, mountain group, c.20 mi (30 km) long, central Greece, in Boeotia; it rises to 5,736 ft (1,748 m). Helicon formed part of the border between…
(Encyclopedia) EpidaurusEpidaurusĕpĭdôrˈəs [key], ancient city of Greece, on an inlet of the Saronic Gulf, NE Peloponnesus. It was celebrated as the site of the temple of Asclepius, which dates from…
