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Portrait Bust of Pindar in the Capitoline Museum, Rome
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Map Showing Boeotia and her Neighbors
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Pindar was born in a small village near Thebes.
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Map showing the Sicilian cities for whose citizens or tyrants Pindar composed epinician odes.
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The most important were Hieron I, tyrant of Syracuse, and Theron, tyrant of Acragas, both of whom Pindar visited in 476 bce.
In 480 bce, Hieron and Theron came to the aid of Himera, the western frontier of the Greek sphere of influence on the northern coast, when Himera was attacked by the Carthaginians under Hamilcar (grandfather of Hannibal), at the same time that the Persians were attacking the Greek mainland. Greek victory ensured the survival of Greek culture in Sicily, and Pindar celebrated this victory in Pythian 1, written ten years later for Hieron when he had just founded Aetna, on the slopes of the volcanic mountain, for his son to rule as king.
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Map showing Chalcis in Euboea, the earliest of the Greek city-states to colonize Sicily.
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Map showing Ionic, Aeolic and Doric dialect areas.
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Aegina and Boeotia
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Aegina was an independent Dorian city state and a major maritime power during the 7th and 6th centuries bce. In the 6th century Athens came into conflict with the interests of Aegina and in 431 bce, at the beginning of the Peloponnesian War, Athens expelled Aegina's inhabitants and established an Athenian cleruchy on the island.
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Aegina pursued by Zeus beside an altar
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The river-god Asopus was the father of nine beautiful daughters, according to the Theban woman poet Corinna: Aigina, Salamis, Thebe, Korkyra, Plataia, Tanagra, Thesipia, Euboia, and Sinope. Both Thebe and Aigina, along with Plataia, were abducted by Zeus. Asopus pursued Zeus but was stopped by his thunderbolt. The other side of this kantharos \(inset\) depicts the pusuit of Ganymede. Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
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Cyrene and her port city Apollonia
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Thera \(Santorini\) is the southermost of the Cyclades.
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Rhodes and the temple of Athena in Lindos
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The Family of Diagoras of Rhodes
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Olympia, at the conjunction of the Alpheos and Cladeus Rivers
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Delphi, site of the Pythian Games
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Nemea
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Isthmia, in the territory of Corinth
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Aerial View of Olympia
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The river Cladeus is on the left; the stadium is on the right; in the center is the hill of Cronos.
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Plan of Olympia
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Reconstructions of the Statue of Zeus Olympias based on representations of the statue
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on coins and the description of the statue in Pausanias: \"The god sits on a throne, and he is made of gold and ivory. On his head lies a garland which is a copy of olive shoots. In his right hand he carries a Victory, which, like the statue, is of ivory and gold. In the god\'s left hand is a scepter, ornamented with every kind of metal, and the bird sitting on the scepter is the eagle....\"
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Model of the Altis at Olympia
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The remains of the altar of Gaia, the oldest deity worshipped at Olympia, at the foot of the hill of Kronos
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Aerial view of the Sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi below the twin peaks of Mount Parnassus, seen from the east
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Map showing location of Delphi in Phocis
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The remains of the Temple of Apollo at Delph
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The Adyton in the Temple of Apollo
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A Fourth Century copy of the Delphic Omphalos, wrapped in woolen sacrificial bands
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Inscription with Hymn to Apollo
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Arrows mark point where musical notatio is indicated.
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Marmaria
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Remains of Cult Statue of Apollo
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Apollo (left) and Artemis (right)
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the Nike of Paionios (420 bce)
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Temple of Kastor and Pollux in Akragas, Sicily
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Votive Relief to Kastor and Pollux. Sparta Museum. 575 bce
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Peter Paul Rubens, \"Castor and Pollus Abduct the Daughters of Leukyppos\" \(1618\) Munich, Alte Pinakothek
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The Hellenistic Fountain of Kastalia, with niches for votive offerings
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The archaic fountain of Kastalia
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Aphrodite of Kyrene, in the Terme Museum
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Aphrodite of Kyrene, in the North Carolina Museum
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Just to the east (left) of the Hellenistic fountain, the Phaedriades Gorge is visible
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A Cyrenaean coin from the early 3rd century bce, with Apollo Karneios on the obverse and the silphium plant on the reverse
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Map of the Argonauts\' Voyage
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Aphrodite of Cyrene
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Venus Genetrix
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Paris, Louvre on the left; Florence, Uffizi on the right
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The Crouching Venus
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Rome, Vatican on the left; Paris, Louvre on the right
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Kallipygos Venus \(left\) and Venus de Milo \(right\)
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Kallipygos in Naples, National Museum; Venus de Milo in the Louvre
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Map of the Peloponnese showing the areas controlled by the Heracleidae
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