10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LAMPADEPHORIA»
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1
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities
It has been supposed by some writers that the lampadephoria only took place at
the great Pan- atlienaea, but this rests upon the feeble testimony of Libanius,'
while all other writers who mention this lampadephoria speak of it as a part of the
...
William Smith, Charles Anthon, 1870
2
A dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities, ed. by W. Smith
The lampadephoria or torch-race of the Panathenaea has been confounded by
many writers, and even by Wachsmuth (Hell. Alt. ii. 2. p. 246), with that of the
Bendidia. On what day it was held, and in what relation it stood to the other
contests, ...
Greek antiquities, sir William Smith, 1842
3
The public economy of Athens; to which is added, a ...
For all these spectacles the gymnasiarchs had to provide: and, as considerable
emulation existed, one person was appointed from each tribe for every game,
whether accompanied or not with lampadephoria"0. The gymnasiarchy was not
by ...
4
The public economy of Athens: in four books; to which is ...
For all these spectacles the Gymna- 677 Harpocration in v. Xaftnaf and there
Valesius, Suidas in v. iiMftiraits, Lex. Seg. p. 277. Aristoph. Ran. 1119. and the
Scholiast, also Schol. Ran. 131. Concerning the Lampadephoria in honour of
Neptune ...
5
Cosmology and the Polis: The Social Construction of Space ...
In sending news of his defeat at Salamis to Sousa Xerxes used the Persian relay
of mounted messengers, which Herodotos compares to the Greek
lampadephoria (8.98). The Persian relay, designed to con— trol the systematic
space of a vast ...
6
A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art: Comprising the ...
LAMPADEPHORIA. (ч procure for them any considerable notice, if they - destitute
of the Argand principle. This facility of * application has recently been exemplified
In an шксшоил invention, by which lamps on the Argand principle have been ...
William Thomas Brande, 1842
7
A Geographical and Historical Description of Ancient Greece; ...
Academia. called Lampadephoria were celebrated. (Aristoph. Ran. 129. ubi vid.
Schol. et Suid. Y) The Academy was at the extremity of this burial ground, and
about six stadia from the gate Dipylum. (Cicer. de Fin. V. l. Liv. XXXI. 24. Lucian.
8
The topography of Athens and the Demi
Here also was the altar of Prometheus ; for Plutarch mentions the statue of Love,
and Pausanias the altar of Prometheus, as the starting-place of the runners in the
Lampadephoria, which terminated probably at the Hephsesteium in the Agora, ...
William Martin Leake, 1841
9
Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, ...
aIrrfofila (see Lampadephoria) ; Bcllona, the Furies, Aurora, Hymen, Peace (on a
medal of Vespasian) ; Comus (in an ancient painting described by Philostratus) ;
Night, Sleep, and Death, or Thanatus, D<Edalvs (AaiJuXoi). The name of Dadali
...
Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, 1830
10
The Frogs of Aristophanes, with notes by T. Mitchell
Xcvkos, 7rlcov, wroXenrofievos kou Seiva TTomV naff 01 K.epa/ir]9 iioured at
Corinth with the Lampadephoria ; at the Bendidea, in which Diana Bendis
appears in the character of Goddess of the Moon : and lastly, at the annual
games of Pan, ...
Aristophanes, Thomas Mitchell, 1839
