Chalcidice : peninsula of Greece projecting into Aegean Sea from Macedonia, & ending in the three promontories of Pallone, Sithonia & Acte.
... Bartered her tokens, Babylon's wise men paused at our thresholds; Fair-haired sons of the snows came rapt towards golden Troya Drawn by the song and the glory. Strymon sang hymns unto Ida, Hoarse Chalcidice, dim Chersonesus married their waters Under the o'erarching yoke of Troy twixt the term-posts of Ocean. Meanwhile far through the world your fortunes led by my counsels Followed their lure like ...
... and demigods of mythology. 22 son of Thetis: Achilles. The passage, which Socrates partly paraphrases and partly quotes, is Iliad XViii. 94-106. 23 Potidaea in Chalcidice revolted from Athens in 432 and was reduced two years later. In the preliminary fighting Socrates saved the life of Alcibiades, as the latter relates in the Symposium (220 D). 24 ...
... children: the heroes and demigods of mythology. son of Thetis: Achilles. The passage which Socrates partly paraphrases and partly quotes is Iliad XViii. 94-106. Potidaea in Chalcidice revolted from Athens in 432 and was reduced two years later. In the preliminary fighting Socrates saved the life of Alcibiades, as the latter relates in the Symposium (220 D). Amphipolis: ...
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