Aetolia


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Ae·to·li·a

 (ē-tō′lē-ə, -tōl′yə)
An ancient region of central Greece north of the gulfs of Corinth and Patras. In the fourth century bc it formed the Aetolian League, a military confederation that rivaled Achaea and Macedon before falling under Roman domination in the second century.
Ae·to′li·an adj. & n.
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Aetolia

(iːˈtəʊlɪə)
n
(Placename) a mountainous region forming (with the region of Acarnania) a department of W central Greece, north of the Gulf of Patras: a powerful federal state in the 3rd century bc. Chief city: Missolonghi. Pop (with Acarnania): 219 092 (2001). Area: 5461 sq km (2108 sq miles)
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Ae•to•li•a

(iˈtoʊ li ə)

n.
a region in W central Greece.
Ae•to′li•an, adj., n.
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Such was Tydeus of Aetolia. His son can talk more glibly, but he cannot fight as his father did."
As he was leaving the body, Thoas of Aetolia struck him in the chest near the nipple, and the point fixed itself in his lungs.
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Hesiod said that they were sons of Aloeus, -- called so after him, -- and of Iphimedea, but in reality sons of Poseidon and Iphimedea, and that Alus a city of Aetolia was founded by their father.
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The metope from the temple at Thermon in Aetolia, dated to c.
Swallow this: a pelike within Late Archaic Song and Visual Culture
The Byzantine grammarian John Tzetzes wrote that "Under the royal patronage of Ptolemy Philadelphus, Alexander of Aetolia edited the books of tragedy, Lycophron of Chalcis those of comedy, and Zenodotus of Ephesus those of Homer and the other poets" (Tzetzes, 1952, pp.
Tracing the archetypal academic librarian
Oineus, king of Calydon in Aetolia, failed to honour Artemis, whereupon the angry goddess sent a monstrous boar to ravage his realm.
Ceremonies of the ancients: among the treasures of the collection of classical sculpture at Wilton acquired by the 8th Earl of Pembroke in the 17th and 18th centuries are four marble Roman sarcophagi. As Elizabeth Angelicoussis explains, they embody the Earl's intellectual curiosity as well as his aesthetic discrimination
These are two little Towns, built like Venice upon little Iflands, in the Shallows of the Sea, near the Shore of the ancient Aetolia. No ship, or Bark, can come near them by four or five Miles; nor to them at all unlefs they will fetch them, in their little flat-bottom'd Boats, made of one piece of Wood, they therefore call Monoxylo, as afore-faid: In which alfo they bring their Currans aboard, coming to and fro in calm Weather, as thick as Bees to a Hive.
The creation of modern Greece: travel, art and Philhellenism in the collection of the State Library of Victoria
124: "Demetrios of Macedon, about 235 B.C., made an expedition into Aetolia and sacked Old Pleuron; its inhabitants guarded against the recurrence of the mishap by establishing themselves in a less exposed situation"; Fiechter 1931, p.
Strabo 10.2.4 and the synoecism of "Newer" Pleuron

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