10 PORTUGUESE BOOKS RELATING TO «BOIAI»
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boiai in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Venturing in Southern Greece: The Vatika Odysseys
The ancient city of Boiai (pronounced Vi-e), was founded during the Mycenaean
era in the second century B.C. In the second century A.D., Pausanias, a Greek
traveler and geographer, wrote that Boiai was founded by King Boios, ...
Barbara J. Euser, Connie Burke,
2007
nachgewiesen, dessen Komplex Orlandos ergraben und erst für die Agora
gehalten hat57; in Argos, fügt Pausanias an, liege ein Asklepieion nahe bei der
Agora58, im spartanischen Boiai wenigstens in der Stadt, ebenso in Sparta und ...
Albert Schachter, Emily Kearns, Birgitta Bergquist,
1992
3
Negotiating Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean: The ...
An interesting parallel is the story of the foundation of Boiai, a polis in Laconia.
Pausanias recounts that three cities, Etis, Aphrodisias, and Side, whose
inhabitants were all expelled, were anxious to knowwhere they should settle. As
in Strabo's ...
4
Myth and Territory in the Spartan Mediterranean
The colonies whose historicity is difficult to deny are (the new) Asine, Mothone,
the six Triphylian cities, Teleklos' three Makaria colonies, and perhaps Boiai.
Possible candidates for acceptance are Thouria, Aithaia, Pharis, Geronthrai, and
...
5
A Small Greek World: Networks in the Ancient Mediterranean
Aparallel motif concerns Boiai, in Lakonia: Pausanias says that when the
inhabitants of Etis, Aphdodisias, and Side were expelled, they received an oracle
prophesying that Artemis would tell them where to settle.51 When the refugees
landed ...
6
Perikles and his Circle
Pausanias must be drawing on the same source, since he, too, reports Tolmides'
capture of Boiai and Kythera, and adds some details about the engagement at
Sikyon: 'they disembarked at Sikyon and, when, in the course of his ravaging of ...
Anthony J. Podlecki,
2013
7
Leonidas of Sparta: A Boy of the Agoge
I think she came from Boiai, or was it Kotyrta? I really don't know.” Boiai and
Kotyrta were perioikoi towns out on the Malea peninsula—farther than Leonidas
could ever get on his own. Without Dido, the palace was empty. More than that: it
was ...
8
The Polis as an Urban Centre and as a Political Community: ...
one of the poleis from which Boiai synoecized; founded by Aeneas; location not
specified; 8.12.8. Ar/Cl. Thuc. 4.56.1 (424 B.C.): 'A(ppo8mav (ace.; -tmv Herodian,
-oiccv codd.); coastal place in Laconia with nearby guard-post. Hl/R? Steph.
Mogens Herman Hansen, Kongelige Danske videnskabernes selskab,
1997
9
Sparta and Lakonia: A Regional History 1300-362 BC
From Vezani the road continued through the pass of Mount Kourkoulato Molaoi
andthence eitherto Epidauros Limera orviaPlytra(ancient Asopos) to Neapolis (
ancient Boiai). Inthehills surrounding the Molaoi plain, midway between the plain
...
10
Hellenistic and Roman Sparta
through the pass of Mount Kourkoula to Molaoi and thence either to Epidauros
Limera or via Plytra (ancient Asopos) to Neapolis (ancient Boiai). In the hills
surrounding the Molaoi plain. midway between the plain and Monemvasia. lies
the ...