After reporting his discovery in Sparta, he returned to Tegea, leased the smith's land, and retrieved the bones. From that time most of the Peloponnese was under Spartan control. 14.10 HERODOTUS 1.67–68. In their earlier war with Tegea, ...
For the date of the hymn , see W. Burkert in Arktouros : Hellenic studies presented to B.M.W. Knox , 1979 , 53–62 . 28 VS 22 B 51 = 27 Marcovich . 29 Callim . Fr. 114 , see II 5 n . 80 . 30 The puzzle is that the names hekatebolos and ...
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