Salamis : island in the Saronic Gulf of the Aegean Sea, part of Attica, Greece; also a port town of this island, west of the city of Piraeus (q.v.); home of Ajax & Teucer.
... Aristotle. The Platonic Academy was closed down by the Christian emperor Justinian in AD 529. 2. The Persian king Darius was defeated at Marathon in 490 BC. And his son and successor Xerxes at Salamis in 480 BC. •> 3. Acropolis is the Greek term for the central place of a city containing the municipal and religious buildings, preferably located on a hill, as ;¦ is the one in Athens. The Parthenon... were still under a democracy. When the oligarchy came into power, the Thirty Commissioners in their turn summoned me and four others to the Round Chamber 28 and instructed us to go and fetch Leon of Salamis from his home for execution. This was of course only one of many instances in which they issued such instructions, their object being to implicate as many people as possible in their wickedness. On... to me that I should do nothing wrong or wicked. Powerful as it was, that government did not terrify me into doing a wrong action; when we came out of the Round Chamber the other four went off to Salamis and arrested Leon, and I went home. I should probably have been put to death for this, if the government had not fallen soon afterwards. There are plenty of people who will testify to these statements ...
... still under a democracy. When the oligarchy came into power, the Thirty Commissioners in their turn summoned me and four others to the Round Chamber28 and instructed us to go and fetch Leon of Salamis from his home for execution. This was of course only one of many instances in which they issued such instructions, their object being to implicate as many people as possible in their wickedness... to me that I should do nothing wrong or wicked. Powerful as it was, that government did not terrify me into doing a wrong action; when we came out of the Round Chamber the other four went off to Salamis and arrested Leon, and I went home. I should probably have been put to death for this, if the government had not fallen soon afterwards. There are plenty of people who will testify to these statements ...
... war, the Persian army led by Darius is defeated by the Athenians in the battle of Marathon. 480 BC — The 2nd Persian war, the Persian army led by Xerxes is defeated in the Bay of Salamis by the Athenian forces. 469 BC — Birth of Socrates. 461 BC — Pericles rises to prominence as a leading statesman of Athens. 463 BC — Cimon... BC — Athens falls to Sparta; the harsh, oligarchic Rule of the Thirty Tyrants led by Critias, a former pupil of Socrates, is imposed. Socrates and four others are ordered to arrest Leon of Salamis, a democrat so that his property could be seized and he could be executed. Socrates refuses to collaborate with the Oligarchs. Leon is arrested and put to death. Page 147 ...
... beauty cleansed and translucent, a beauty of the eternal Ionian sky. How limpid and serene, yet pulsating with a coursing life is this pastoral: ¹ "Postscript", From Log Book II. ² "Salamis in Cyprus", From Log Book III. ³ "Engomi", Ibid. Page 195 In the sky the clouds were ringlets; here and there A trumpet of gold and rose: the approaching dusk. In the scanty... remains: What is god? What is not god? What is in-between? Seferis is a being of this in-between world, his consciousness a golden seam joining two hemispheres. ¹“Salamis in Cyprus.” Page 197 ...
... Plato, he is considered to be one of the most influential of the ancient Greek philosophers. The Persian king Darius was defeated at Marathon in 490 BC, and his son and successor Xerxes at Salamis in 480 BC. Damon, son of Damonides, was an advisor to Pericles. Though his expertise was musicology, some say that he had a broader influence over Pericles' political policy; e.g. Damon ...
... final stamp of conviction that his teachings were, indeed, a bad influence upon the youth of Athens. It "was also held against him that when Critias asked Socrates to bring before him Leon of Salamis so that he could be executed, although Socrates declined to carry out such a task as it was against his duty towards Athens, he neither tried to stop o the violence nor did he warn Leon of the impending ...
... Book I, 192n -"The Return of the Exile", 192n -From Log Book II, 195n -"Postscript", 195n -From Log Book III, 193-5n -"Engomi", 193n., 195-6n -"Helen", 193-4n -"Salamis in Cyprus", 195n., 197n -"Three Mules", 194 -Gymnopaedia, 192n -"Santorin", 192-3n -Mythistorema, 194n., 196n -"Just a little more", 196n Page 374 ...
... Hurting thy heart with her frowardness. Hatred and rapine sent thee, Greed of the Ilian gold and lust of the Phrygian women, Voice of Achaian aggression! Doom am I truly; let Gnossus Witness it, Salamis speak of my fatal arrival and Argos Silent remember her wounds." But the Argive answered the virgin: "Hearken then to the words of the Hellene, Penthesilea. 'Virgin to whom earth's strongest are ...
... Page 247 With Armin and Viriathus; you stand The last of Freedom's children and your land Her latest foothold upon earth; nor can Your rugged pastoral mood disguise the man Identical at Salamis who waged Unequal battle and in salt floods assuaged The Persian's lust of rule. Miltiades Is grown your brother; the strong Tyrolese Hold out their hands to you across the grave. From Rouen's ...
... down the heroic Spartans at Ther-mopylae, conquered Athens itself and offered it to God the Fire, Page 124 yet with its blaze behind him he met with a check in the naval battle at Salamis and had to retire from Greece. If the tide of war had moved a little differently and Greece had fallen to the Per-sians, the rest of south-eastern Europe would have been at their mercy. Then, according ...
... his death was avenged by his children. Agamemnon's funeral mask Ajax: son of Telamon, he was also called the Telamonian Ajax. He was the leader of the warriors of Salamis and is already slain by Penthesilea at the opening of Ilion. Amphitrite: one of the Nereids, queen of the sea, wife of Poseidon and mother of Triton. Ananke: personification of ...
... she whispers to him, "thy stout heart will be thy death; nor hast thou pity of thy child or me who shall soon be a widow." Then he strides down the causeway to battle and (VII) engages Ajax, King of Salamis, in single combat. They fight bravely, and separate at nightfall with exchange of praise and gifts — a flower of courtesy floating on a sea of blood. (VIII) After a day of Trojan victories, Hector ...
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