| 单词 | Peloponnese |
| 例句 | ‘The demigod ship sails around the Peloponnese. Already they have destroyed the ghosts at Ithaca and captured the goddess Nike in Olympia!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He drew Greece like a mis-shapen hourglass - a large dangly blob for the northern mainland, then another blob below it, almost as large - the big chunk of land known as the Peloponnese. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z She had hated her years in the Peloponnese. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z This whole part of Greece, the Peloponnese, was named after him.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z ‘I still wish we could’ve gone through the Gulf of Corinth. I was hoping we could visit Delphi, maybe get some advice. Plus it’s such a long way around the Peloponnese.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z ‘I - I see. And if the demigods sail the long way around the Peloponnese?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Start with the Mani Peninsula — the southern tip of the Peloponnese — empty and wild like a landscape in a Hollywood western. Rick Steves’ Europe / An unspoiled escape in Greece 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z “And do not forget that in Peloponnese is ancient Olympia, the original city of the Olympic games.” In Greece, a Run With Some History 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z Olsen claims that the Braemar’s feat officially broke the existing record, making it the largest ship to ever pass through the waterway separating Greek mainland from the Peloponnese peninsula. Cruise ship narrowly passes through Greek canal in historic first 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z Excavations close to the village of Chiliomodi in Greece’s southern Peloponnese region indicated the presence of the wealthy ancient city of Tenea, the Culture Ministry said in a statement. Greece unearths remnants of ancient city of Tenea 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z Finikounda, on the south-west tip of the Peloponnese, is literally at the edge of Europe. Favourite hidden spots in Europe: readers’ travel tips 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z This wine, made without added yeast or filtration in the Peloponnese region of Greece, is fragrant and floral, bone-dry and lightly fruity. 20 Under $20: Wines That Feed the Soul 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z I would essentially traverse mountainous central Peloponnese, east to west. An Olympic Odyssey: Where the Games Began 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z The bridge connects northern Peloponnese back to the mainland. An Olympic Odyssey: Where the Games Began 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z Within an hour I began spotting signs for Isthmia — so named for being on the Isthmus of Corinth, which connects Greece’s mainland with Peloponnese, the peninsula to the south. An Olympic Odyssey: Where the Games Began 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z A team of Greek and German researchers found it on an engraved clay plaque in Ancient Olympia, the birthplace of the Olympic Games in the Peloponnese peninsula, the Greek culture ministry said on Tuesday. 'Oldest known extract' of Homer's Odyssey discovered in Greece 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z Mantinia, in the Peloponnese region of Greece north of the city of Tripoli, is particularly known for its moschofilero, an unusual grape that, like pinot gris, is more accurately called pink rather than white. 20 Wines Under $20: For When the Weather Is Sultry 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z It is strange that Knausgaard, given his thematic fixations, fails to mention that the Cyclopes were, in Greek mythology, wall builders, responsible for constructing fortifications on the Peloponnese. In Searching Essays, Knausgaard Extols the Freedom and Limitations of Art 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z Before Midnight catches the lovers at the end of a summer holiday in the Peloponnese. Before Midnight: Richard Linklater's search for a happy ending 2013-06-13T17:59:01Z An unnamed, 30-ish British narrator tracks down her estranged husband, Christopher, in Greece after her mother-in-law intervenes; Christopher is traced to the southern Peloponnese, where he’s supposedly studying mourning rites — and where marital deception proliferates. Paperback Row 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z But in general, the film is a great advertisement for the sunlit heaven of Messenia in the southern Peloponnese, an area of the characters mention by name several times during the film. Trailer Trash 2013-06-22T23:05:35Z It is also not far from the famous ancient ruins of the Peloponnese. 20 Greek islands … you may not have heard of 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z A jeweler with a shop next door, a native of Pyrgos in the Peloponnese, told Mr. Spiliadis, “You do not know how to cook fish,” and gave him lessons. Tough on Others, Tougher on Himself: The Perfectionist Behind the Milos Restaurants 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z Sixty men wearing Bavarian national costumes fired antique pistols into the sky, signaling the arrival of the hallowed Olympic flame carried from the Peloponnese, the site of the ancient Olympics. Inside the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z One of the major fires was burning in the southern Greek region of the Peloponnese near ancient Olympia, where the Olympics were held every four years from 776 B.C. for more than a millennium. Forest fires rage in Greece, threaten Olympics birthplace 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z War, it's implied, in Iraq as much as the Peloponnese, is rooted in machismo. Women rule the world ... but only if it's Made in Dagenham 2010-10-04T10:53:00Z The ruling party’s sole victory Sunday came in the Peloponnese. Greece’s ruling conservatives suffer setbacks in regional, municipal elections 2023-10-15T04:00:00Z Authorities said 88 migrants from Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan – including 20 children – were rescued from a boat in distress Wednesday off the southern Peloponnese region, with the help of a passing oil tanker. Greece wants European Union to sanction countries that refuse deported migrants, minister says 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z The island is located between Milos and the Peloponnese in an area known for strong currents and rough seas. Greece’s coast guard heads to overcrowded migrant sailboat anchored off remote uninhabited island 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z Other fires requiring evacuations broke out on the northeast side of the island of Corfu and in the northern Peloponnese, near the town of Aigio. Fire still blazing on the Greek island of Rhodes as dozens more erupt across the country 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z An area west of Athens is among the worst-hit areas, along with Laconia in the southern Peloponnese and the island of Rhodes. Greece fires: Thousands flee homes and hotels on Rhodes as fires spread 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z Western Attica - just west of Athens - is among the worst-hit areas, along with Laconia in the southern Peloponnese and the island of Rhodes. Europe heatwave: Temperatures to soar in Greece as fires still burn 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z At first light, air water bombers resumed operations over the towns of Mandra, west of Athens, and Loutraki, close to the Corinth canal which separates mainland Greece from the Peloponnese. Wildfires continue in Greece as EU allies send aid 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z Since the migrant crisis, the views of most Greek voters have shifted in favour of stricter, more conservative policies, says Panos Koliastasis, assistant professor of politics at the University of Peloponnese. Greek conservatives eye Mitsotakis majority in fresh election 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z Just before midnight, authorities called for more evacuations from Corfu and the northern Peloponnese. Fire still blazing on the Greek island of Rhodes as dozens more erupt across the country 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z “As stunned as we are, we should also be outraged at the wretched smugglers, at those scum,” he said while campaigning in Gytheio in the southern Peloponnese on Saturday. Greek Coast Guard Under Scrutiny for Response to Migrant Mass Drowning 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z Around 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Italian authorities informed Greece that a fishing trawler packed with migrants was in international waters southwest of the Peloponnese. Diverging narratives emerge after trawler with hundreds of migrants sinks in the Mediterranean 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z Traffic was suspended for hours on two roads connecting the mainland to the Peloponnese. Wildfires continue in Greece as EU allies send aid 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z The search operation south of Greece’s Peloponnese region failed to locate any more bodies or survivors overnight or early Thursday. Greece finds no more survivors after sinking of migrant boat. Hundreds are still feared missing 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z Panagiotis Nikason, the regional governor for the Peloponnese region, told Greek news outlets on Wednesday that some survivors had suggested as many 750 passengers were on the ship, adding that the claim was being checked. Greece Continues Search for Migrants After Crowded Ship Capsizes 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z The next year they invaded the Peloponnese and liberated Messene from Spartan rule, depriving the Spartans of most of their helot labor there. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z In 1968, 34 people died in a crash in the southern Peloponnese region. Rescuers comb wreckage of Greece’s deadliest train crash 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z Greece issued an advisory on Tuesday saying the vessel Sanco Swift will conduct seismic surveys to locate potential natural gas reserves off the Peloponnese peninsula and west and southwest of the island of Crete. TSX opens higher on boost from utilities, material stocks 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Greece issued an advisory on Tuesday saying the vessel Sanco Swift will conduct seismic surveys to locate potential natural gas reserves off the Peloponnese peninsula and west and southwest of the island of Crete. Chile inflation slows to 8-month low in positive surprise 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Volunteers joined rescue officials at the top of the cliff face on Kythira, an island off the Peloponnese region of southern Greece. Greek cliff rescue in double migrant tragedy off Lesbos and Kythira 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Sparta in the eighth century BCE was a collection of five villages in Laconia, a mountain valley in the Peloponnese in southern Greece. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Kythira is an island lying opposite the southeastern tip of the Peloponnese peninsula. Greece searches for migrants after vessel sinks off Kythira island 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z She was born in a village outside Corinth on the Peloponnese peninsula to a family of teachers; her father taught classical drama. Greek actress and singer Irene Papas dies aged 96 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z Located off the southern tip of the Peloponnese, Kythera isn’t a target destination for the thousands of people fleeing conflict and poverty in the Middle East, Asia and Africa. 3rd sailboat carrying migrants reaches southern Greek island 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z Two more major fires were burning Saturday, one in a remote mountainous area in the region of Western Macedonia and one in southeastern Peloponnese, Artopoios said. Greece battles 4 major wildfires; hotels, homes evacuated 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z The Achaean League was in the Peloponnese and the Aetolian League in central Greece. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Two other blazes were burning in the southern Peloponnese region. Greece: Large forest blaze forces evacuations west of Athens 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z Emergency crews were also trying to put out a fire in the area of Achaia, in the southern Peloponnese peninsula, where four villages have been evacuated. Wildfire rages north of Athens, one town evacuated 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z When he wasn't on the pitch he could be found at his bakery - a family business in his hometown of Kalamata, on the Peloponnese peninsula. 'Greek football is a hydra - you cut one head & others emerge' 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z In a separate incident Friday, Greek police arrested three people on smuggling charges and detained 92 migrants after a yacht ran aground in the southern Peloponnese region. Greece: Sinking of sailboat carrying migrants kills 7 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z When the Achaean League in the Peloponnese in Greece challenged Roman control of Greece and Macedon, Rome declared war and sacked Corinth, the League’s largest city, in 146 BCE. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Also, a fire Monday forced the evacuation by sea of 73 hotel residents from a beach close to Kranidi in the northeastern Peloponnese. Greece: Large forest blaze forces evacuations west of Athens 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z Earlier on Saturday, a quake of magnitude 5.4 rattled parts of southern Greece, with its centre in the sea between the Peloponnese and the island of Crete, the Athens Geodynamic Institute reported. Earthquake hits northern Italy, no injuries reported 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z In response, the government has vowed to transform the hardest-hit areas, including Western Macedonia and Megalopolis, a coal town in the Peloponnese, into sites where new types of work would emerge. Greece Is Getting Rewired for the Future 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z Earlier this year, Greece completed an energy link by undersea cable between its southern Peloponnese region and the island of Crete. Greece vows to link Egypt’s energy grid to European Union 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z By the late sixth century BCE, the wealth from the rich agricultural land that Sparta then controlled had made it the most powerful state in the Peloponnese. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Health measures for the second pandemic flame-lighting at Ancient Olympia, in the southern Peloponnese region, mean that much of the normal pageantry is being trimmed back. Weather, protest cloud Beijing flame-lighting rehearsal 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z Others, including 40 Austrian firefighters, were fighting two major fires in the southern Greek region of the Peloponnese. Firefighters in Greece beat back large blaze outside Athens 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z In the southern Peloponnese, where wildfires killed more than 60 people in 2007, a long stretch of fire tore through forest and houses, prompting the evacuation of more than 20 more villages. Greek Island Is New Epicenter of Europe’s Summer of Calamity 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z Greece, in the grip of its worst heatwave in three decades, evacuated around 20 villages on the Peloponnese, though ancient Olympia, site of the first Olympic Games, escaped the inferno. At least 65 killed in Algerian wildfires, Greece and Italy burn 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z Foreign teams are also helping to tackle blazes in the Peloponnese. Greece fires: Foreign teams join battle on Evia island 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z Several other wildfires were burning in the country, with the most significant in the southern Peloponnese region. Massive wildfire on Greek island of Evia devours forests 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z Two villages were evacuated in the Peloponnese region on Wednesday as a blaze raged near the archaeological site of the ancient Olympics. Greece battles wildfires for third day, site of ancient Olympics saved 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z Two more major forest fires were still burning on the Greek island of Evia and one in the southwestern Peloponnese. Wildfires burn for a 7th day in coastal areas of Turkey 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z Apart from the fire north of Athens, two more major forest fires were still burning Wednesday morning, one on the island of Evia and one in the southwestern Peloponnese. Firefighting planes resume flights over fire north of Athens 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z In Greece, the largest fires were in the southern Peloponnese peninsula and on the island of Rhodes in the southern Aegean Sea, opposite the Turkish coast. Heat Emergency Brings Record Temperature and Fires to Southern Europe 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z The Greek independence revolt started in the Mani region of the southern Peloponnese peninsula in 1821 and continued for years without official foreign support, with the Greeks gradually becoming riven by dissent and infighting. Greece kicks off events for bicentenary of independence war 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z The storm, named Ianos, hit the Ionian islands and western Peloponnese on Friday before lashing the rest of the country on Saturday. Greece slammed by rare 'medicane,' leaving 3 dead, hundreds rescued from flooding 2020-09-20T04:00:00Z Ianos uprooted trees and caused power cuts on the Ionian islands and the western Peloponnese. Three dead after rare Mediterranean storm batters Greece 2020-09-20T04:00:00Z A rare “Medicane,” or Mediterranean hurricane, pounded western Greece on Friday, flooding streets, uprooting trees and causing power cuts on Kefalonia, Zakynthos and Ithaca in the Ionian Islands, and in areas of the western Peloponnese. World Digest: Sept. 18, 2020 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z Large sections of the Peloponnese and the countryside around Athens were ravaged in 2007 by forest fires that killed more than 70 people. New wildfire threatens homes in seaside resort near Athens 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z In 1827, with the revolution almost squashed, the war fleets of Britain, Russia and France intervened to destroy a Turkish-Egyptian fleet in the Bay of Navarino, in the western Peloponnese. Greece kicks off events for bicentenary of independence war 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z It was brought to the port of Katakolo in the southern Peloponnese region Sunday, and confiscated. 74 migrants on broken down yacht rescued off western Greece 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z Then it was on to Ancona, a seaside city on the Adriatic coast, where he boarded a ferry to Patras, in the Peloponnese region of Greece. Homesick Student Cycles From Scotland to Greece During the Pandemic 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z Most of them operate in northern Greece and the southern Peloponnese. Greece goes after cleaner transport with tax breaks for electric cars 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z Concerned about spreading the virus, Greek officials made their decision after hundreds of spectators reportedly watched the flame being carried to the Peloponnese town of Sparta on Friday. First leg of Olympic torch relay is snuffed out by coronavirus 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z But HOC said the opening leg of the relay in the southern Peloponnese town of Sparta attracted unexpectedly high crowds, forcing it to suspend the remaining stops. Big crowds force HOC to suspend Olympic torch relay in Greece 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z Papaioannou told me that it was particularly shocking since Samaras, the prime minister at the time, hails from the Peloponnese. Golden Dawn: the rise and fall of Greece’s neo-Nazis 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z The tombs are near the Bronze Age palace of Pylos, in Greece's southern Peloponnese region. Bronze Age royal tombs unearthed in Greece 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z The fallout from heavy rainfall was such that authorities were forced to close the highway connecting the Greek capital with Corinth and the Peloponnese peninsula as services cleared the road network of tonnes of mud. Storms in France, Greece and Italy leave 'biblical destruction' 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z Parts of the national road network to the Peloponnese peninsula were cut off to traffic because of extensive flooding, police officials said. Two die after thunderstorms sweep across western Greece 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z The storms battered the islands of Ithaca and Cephalonia in the Ionian Sea and western Peloponnese, causing mudslides in some areas. Heavy storms lash western Greece, two dead from lightning strike 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Separately, two people in their forties were arrested in the Peloponnese for deliberately starting fires, the Greek newspaper Ekathimerini reports. Tourists evacuated as wildfires rip across Greece 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z The suspects, 47 and 43 years old, were arrested by firefighters in separate cases Saturday, in the Peloponnese. Wildfires burning across Greece; 2 arrested for arson 2019-08-25T04:00:00Z Ship tracking data on Tuesday showed the vessel was heading to the Greek port of Kalamata on the southern coast of the Peloponnese, and was scheduled to arrive on Aug. 26. Greece says it has had no request from Iranian oil tanker to dock 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z The cemetery itself is located at Aidonia, an archaeological site on Greece's Peloponnese Peninsula that's also famous for a nearby temple of Zeus, located at Nemea. Grave robbers missed these ancient Greek graves 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z In the coming days he is expected to be sent to a high-security prison for sex offenders in the Peloponnese region of southern Greece. Crete 'struggling with shame' after rape and murder of US scientist 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z A 2007 forest fire in the Peloponnese peninsula threatened to destroy the temples and stadiums of ancient Olympia, birthplace of the Olympic Games. Climate change is taking its toll on Greek monuments, say scientists 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z “Quite strong and long,” one resident of the western city of Patras in the Peloponnese, 51 kilometers from the epicenter, wrote on the European-Mediterranean Seismological Center website. Magnitude 5.3 tremor shakes central Greece, no word on damage 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z But excavations in Chiliomodi, the small village where her team found the sarcophagus in the Peloponnese Peninsula south of Athens, did not begin until early September this year. Rich, Ancient City Is Unearthed in Greece 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z A ministry statement said excavations from September to early October in the southern Greek region of the Peloponnese turned up “proof of the existence of the ancient city” of Tenea. World Digest: Nov. 13, 2018 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z The ministry said in a statement on Thursday the discovery was made at the Mycenaean-era cemetery near the village of Aidonia and the ancient Nemea site in the southern Peloponnese. Bronze swords, other items found in plundered Greek cemetery 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z The epicenter of the quake was 37 kilometers west of Methoni in the Peloponnese peninsula, according to the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre. Earthquake shakes southern Greece, no reports of injuries 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z But in most other ways the township of Kardamyli in the Peloponnese is utterly changed. The romance of the past: that’s what drives the traveller’s impossible quest | Ian Jack 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z Three Greek coast guard vessels and a plane from the European border agency Frontex are searching the sea Thursday to the west of Pylos, on the southwestern tip of the Peloponnese, the coast guard said. The Latest: Search for migrant boat off southwestern Greece 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z Bureaucracy, along with economic depression and the absence of bank credit, led her this year to shut down her delicatessen with products from the Peloponnese. Greek Bailout Ends, But Underlying Problems Remain 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z There were mounting fears that the death toll would continue to grow – surpassing by far those recorded when wildfires decimated large tracts of the western Peloponnese peninsula in 2007. 'God doesn’t give us the words': Greece wildfire survivors share tales of terror 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z Fears were growing that the death toll would rise further as Greece grapped with its worst natural disaster since wildfires destroyed large tracts of the western Peloponnese in 2007. Greece wildfires death toll hits 80 as rescue efforts intensify 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z The number outpaces the death toll of 2007, one of the worst on record, where about 70 individuals died from fires in the southern Peloponnese region. Greek fire brigade says death toll in wildfires rises to 79 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z Greece's last major fire disaster was in 2007, when dozens of people were killed in the southern Peloponnese peninsula. Search for Greece wildfire survivors 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z It is Greece's worst fire disaster since 2007, when dozens of people were killed in the southern Peloponnese peninsula. Greek wildfire 'struck like flamethrower' 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z More than 60 people were killed in 2007 when huge fires swept across the southern Peloponnese region. Greek wildfires kill at least 49; more than 700 people are evacuated 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z This marks the largest death toll in Greece since 2007, when large fires burned in the southern Peloponnese for days, leaving more than 60 people dead. Greek Wildfires Devastate Resort Area Near Athens 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z The main Athens-Corinth motorway, one of two road routes to the Peloponnese peninsula, was shut and train services were cancelled. Greeks urged to leave homes as wildfires spread near Athens 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z The Peloponnese is a peninsula, separated from mainland Greece by the Corinth canal. Earthquake shakes southern Greece 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z “There is no balance,” said Aristotelis Panteliadis, managing director of a supermarket chain that underwent five years of archaeological reviews over its request to expand a single store in the Peloponnese. In Greece, the Authority Investors Fear Most: Its Archaeologists 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z The traditional explanation has been that Sicily engaged in an embryonic commercial relationship with people in the Aegean, especially with the northwestern regions of the Peloponnese. Prehistoric Wine Discovered in Inaccessible Caves Forces a Rethink of Ancient Sicilian Culture 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z Both towns were built along an old motorway linking Athens to the Peloponnese city of Corinth. Greeks in mourning and disbelief after flood that killed at least 15 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z Dozens of people died when fires raged for days across the Peloponnese in 2007. Greeks urged to leave homes as wildfires spread near Athens 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z Wildfires also continued in the Peloponnese in southern Greece and on the western island of Zakynthos. Greek firefighters close to containing wildfire near Athens 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z Firefighters were also battling big blazes in the southern Peloponnese area and the western island of Zakynthos. The Latest: Wildfire near Greek capital burns for 3rd day 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z Its hotels are brimming, its cafes are full, and its footpaths and monasteries lure busloads of tourists decanted daily from other parts of the Peloponnese. 'Tourism is our lifejacket': debt-stricken Greece gets record number of visitors 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z Both towns were built along an old motorway linking Athens to the Peloponnese city of Corinth. Greeks in mourning and disbelief after flood that killed at least 15 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z A highway crosses the canal and connects Athens to the Peloponnese. Satellite Eye on Earth: May 2017 – in pictures 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z Pictures shared on social media showed vehicles stacked on top of each other in narrow streets in Kalamata, the second most populous city in the southern Peloponnese region. Greece flash floods leave at least three dead - BBC News 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z The three victims, all elderly, died at separate locations in the Messinia province, in the southern Peloponnese peninsula hardest hit by extreme weather conditions. Three elderly people die in Greek flash flooding 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z Dangling like a giant maple leaf off the Corinthian Isthmus, just south of Athens, the 8,000-plus square mile Peloponnese might look like a behemoth, too big to tackle. Greece’s Chicest New (and Very Old) Beach Destination 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z The districts affected stretch from the Peloponnese to Thessaloniki. Greece bans blood donations in 12 districts over malaria - reports - BBC News 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z The mountaintop in the Peloponnese region is the earliest known site where Zeus was worshipped, and even without the possible human sacrifice element it was a place of massive slaughter. Chilling mountaintop find may confirm dark Greek legend 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z The first recorded Olympics was held in 776 B.C. at the site of Olympia in the Western Peloponnese. Olympic Games We No Longer Play 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z The ancient Greeks held the Olympics in the same wooded sanctuary on the Peloponnese for a thousand years with no evident complaints in the extant literary record. Stop picking different cities to host the Olympic Games 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z Much of the peninsula is also newly accessible, courtesy of a recently constructed EU-funded toll road that cuts through the heart of the Peloponnese. Greece’s Chicest New (and Very Old) Beach Destination 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z The 41 survivors — 37 men, three women and a 3-year-old child — were rescued by a merchant ship and taken to Kalamata, in the Peloponnese peninsula of Greece. 500 Feared Dead in Mediterranean Sea Shipwreck 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z But what's bound to catch your eye is the section titled "Islands and Volcanoes," whose dozen selections hail from Sicily, Sardinia, the Peloponnese and the Canary Islands. David Rosoff's 45-wine list at Moruno is short, sunny and radical 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z I’m lucky: My boyfriend’s father presses olives in Messenia in the Peloponnese, a region known for its excellent oil. A Visit to the Kitchen of Herb Expert Evangelia Koutsovoulou 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z But the discovery of an unlooted warrior tomb in the southwestern Peloponnese turned out to be not just the major archaeological discovery of the year for mainland Greece, but also the discovery of decades. Seven Major Archaeological Discoveries of 2015 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z I was taking my time, though, because I was headed to the Peloponnese peninsula, the mainland outlier that too many travelers skip for the lure of those islands. Greece’s Chicest New (and Very Old) Beach Destination 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z The protestors descended on Athens from the southern Peloponnese in fury over increased taxes the government has been forced to implement under Athens’ latest bailout accord. Markets remain nervous on Paris fears - as it happened 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z The grave is located at the southwest end of the Peloponnese peninsula at Pylos, a place mentioned by Homer in the Odyssey as the site of King Nestor’s palace with its “lofty halls.” Rare Unlooted Grave of Wealthy Warrior Uncovered in Greece 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z The wooden coffin of the unknown soldier – evidently a person of some importance – was found on the site of the Mycenaean-era Palace of Nestor on Greece’s Peloponnese peninsula. Skeleton of ancient warrior and hoard of treasure found in 3,500-year-old tomb 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z The discovery was made by American archaeologists working in the Pylos region in the southwest Peloponnese this summer. 3,500 year-old jewelry haul shows opulence of prehistoric Greek burials 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z The 50 sites on the 2016 list range from World War II concentration camps in Italy to the approximately 5,000-year-old underwater city of Pavlopetri off the coast of the Southern Peloponnese in Greece. These 50 Treasured Places Are At Risk of Disappearing 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z The protestors descended on Athens from the southern Peloponnese in fury over increased taxes the government has been forced to implement under Athens’ latest bailout accord. Markets remain nervous on Paris fears - as it happened 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z Before coming to Italy, she had been staying at a resort hotel in the Peloponnese. The World’s Most Luxurious Fashion Show 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z The Mycenean civilisation spread from the Peloponnese across the whole of the eastern Mediterranean in the second century BC. Skeleton of ancient warrior and hoard of treasure found in 3,500-year-old tomb 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z Here on the remote southeastern Peloponnese Peninsula, life is pared to the essentials: food, family and tradition. Lessons in resilience from rural Greece 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z On Friday, more than 80 wildfires started in Greece, with the Peloponnese district particularly badly affected. Athens fire: Two beekeepers arrested - BBC News 2015-07-18T04:00:00Z Strong winds fanned the forest fire in the Lakonia area, on the tip of the Peloponnese, on Friday. Greek firefighters battle wildfires on Athens outskirts and beyond 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z Separately, several villages were evacuated in the Peloponnese as wildfires burned through rural land. Greece forest fires threaten homes in Athens and in south - BBC News 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z Separately, wildfires burned through rural land in the region of Laconia in the Peloponnese, forcing one fire-fighting aircraft into an emergency landing, defense ministry officials said. Large wildfires burning near Athens 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z The forest fire in the Lakonia area on the tip of Greece's southern Peloponnese was also being fanned by strong winds. Firefighters battle large blaze in Greece; villages evacuated, scores trapped on beach 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z CORINTHIA, Greece—Along the glistening coast of the northern Peloponnese peninsula, a wave of rejoicing rose as votes were counted Sunday. Residents of Rural Greece Cheer ‘No’ Vote in Referendum 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z If Greece’s financial crisis deepens, as many believe it must, he can feed his children and grandchildren with the bounty of the land in this proud village high in the mountains of the Arcadia Peloponnese. AP News in Brief at 7:58 p.m. EDT 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Hardouvelis, the son of farmer from a small fishing village in Greece’s southern Peloponnese peninsula, said he was sensitive to the social effects of the long siege of austerity. Seeing Just One Way for Greece to Go: Up 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z The Bangladeshis were shot at in April last year when they demanded to be remunerated for six months of unpaid work at a farm in Manolada in the southern Peloponnese. Greek court acquits farmers who shot 28 Bangladeshi strawberry pickers 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z Starting on 11 August, a team of Swiss and Greek scientists will seek a "prehistoric countryside" in the south-eastern Peloponnese peninsula, University of Geneva researcher Julien Beck told AFP. World's largest solar boat on odyssey to find ancient inhabited site in Greece 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z In the Peloponnese, most areas voted “no” either along the national average or higher, and in more remote parts of the country, as many as 70% rejected the creditors’ proposals, official results showed. Residents of Rural Greece Cheer ‘No’ Vote in Referendum 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z Wrestlers from around the world including Britain, Iran, Russia and the United States, will gather at Olympia, in the Western Peloponnese area of Greece, on Sunday to participate in the event. Wrestling chiefs send message from Ancient Olympia 2013-07-20T09:59:37Z The flame had travelled from Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the ancient Olympic Games were held, after being lit by the rays of the sun on 10 May. 'Magnificent seven' light flame after dazzling ceremony 2012-07-28T00:26:56Z She received honour, however, in other parts of the Peloponnese, particularly in Olympia, where her temple was the oldest, and in Arcadia. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z Brought to Rome by a decree of the fathers, he was laid in this spot, where he had ordered the head of St. Andrew, which had been brought him from the Peloponnese, to be placed. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z Sparta had come to be regarded as the chief power, not only in the Peloponnese, but also in Greece as a whole, including the islands of the Aegean. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z Greece also declared an emergency situation in the western Peloponnese peninsula after heavy rain caused flooding and an 82-year old woman drowned while trying to escape her house. Europe's cold snap claims more victims, travel hit 2012-02-05T17:14:38Z Italy, but is widely spread also amongst the peoples of the Peloponnese and of northern Greece. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z The one great instance of assimilation of foreign nationalities by the Greeks is the Hellenizing of the Slavs, who from the 6th century had migrated into central Greece and the Peloponnese. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z The Theban victory at Leuctra destroyed the unity, and with it the peace and the prosperity, of the Peloponnese. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z The maritime allies naturally had no desire to be involved in the quarrels of Sicily, Thessaly and the Peloponnese. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z The third part deals first with their immediate successors in Attica, and then turns to Polycleitos of Argos and the sculptures of the Peloponnese; and next to the special class of Greek reliefs. A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) 2011-09-30T02:00:18.107Z Yiannis did not expect to be back in his sleepy home town of Sparta, in the Greek Peloponnese, at the age of 30. Spartan lives 2011-07-29T00:46:17Z Instead, the flame will travel from Olympia in the Peloponnese to Land's End, arriving on 18 May to begin its tour of 74 locations in 70 days. The Olympics explained: everything you need to know for London 2012 2011-07-23T21:55:01Z Tyranny began in the Peloponnese a hundred years before it appears in Sicily, and it has disappeared in the Peloponnese almost before it begins in Sicily. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z Apart from Thessaly, it included all Greece outside the Peloponnese. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z Most just pass through on their way to the rest of the Peloponnese or to Athens. Letter to the Corinthians: Yes, we can 2011-07-11T08:12:13Z So here she sits, protective netting over her red hair, in a forest clearing on the Peloponnese peninsula, making her beekeeping work look easy although it's not. When Economies Fail: Inside Greece's Great Urban Exodus 2011-06-21T19:15:00Z Thus the Spartan hegemony in the Peloponnese was not really a federation except in the broadest sense. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z It succeeded in destroying the supremacy of Sparta in the Peloponnese; it failed to unite the Peloponnese on a new basis. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z After the war, through a series of colourful yet scholarly books, including A Time of Gifts and Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese, he re-invented himself as perhaps the finest travel writer of his generation. Intellectual action man 2011-06-10T16:06:51Z King Nestor was the ancient Greek fabled for his wisdom, his kindness, his banquets and a mighty palace on the Peloponnese peninsula. Grand ambitions: ecoluxury in Greece 2011-03-19T00:06:13Z Some roads in the Peloponnese, central Greece and the north of the country were also shut, according to the Greek news website Ekatherimini. Snow brings chaos to Greek roads 2011-03-08T09:45:18Z In describing its probable size, language failed him; he only got as far as saying—what must have seemed almost a mad exaggeration—that it was many times larger than the Peloponnese. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z The products of Crete and of the Peloponnese had found their way to Egypt and Asia Minor. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z Thus Pelops is the giver of the name to the Peloponnese. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Will the Captain's family ever stop buying land or will they buy the rest of the Peloponnese and rule it like Nestor? Grand ambitions: ecoluxury in Greece 2011-03-19T00:06:13Z Ultimately a change in the balance of parties compelled him to leave the city, and he died in the Peloponnese of the results of an accident in 430. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z He is in the process of investing 1.5 billion euros in a series of high-end tourist resorts on the underdeveloped coastline of the southwest Peloponnese region. What?s Broken in Greece? Ask an Entrepreneur 2011-01-29T23:21:28Z The greater part of the Peloponnese was exempt from it, and there is no good evidence for its existence north of the Isthmus, except at Megara and Athens. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z And so the Athenian people concentrated their main commemorative and thanksgiving efforts after the battle not on Zeus's shrine at Olympia in the Sparta- dominated Peloponnese but on Apollo's shrine at Delphi in central Greece. A Tale of Long-Running Interest 2010-09-24T02:21:00Z Earlier this month, for example, a trip from Athens to Diakopto, a seaside town on the northern coast of the Peloponnese, took more than four hours. Greece?s Debt-Ridden Rail System Adds to Economic Breakdown 2010-07-20T21:05:00Z ARGOS, the name of several ancient Greek cities or districts, but specially appropriated in historic times to the chief town in eastern Peloponnese, whence the peninsula of Argolis derives its name. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" The sun, according to Anaxagoras, is many times as large as the Peloponnese. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy In order to estimate how far the development of Greece had advanced, or to appreciate the distinctive features of Greek life at this period, we must study Ionia, rather than Attica or the Peloponnese. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z Philip II. and Alexander of Macedon were confronted by a confederate host from central Greece and Peloponnese under the leadership of Thebes and Athens, which here made the last stand on behalf of Greek liberty. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" It has also been discovered in Candia and in the Peloponnese. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" The social and political structure of the Dorian states of Peloponnese presupposes likewise a conquest of an older highly civilized population by small bands of comparatively barbarous raiders. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" This secured for Sparta the undisputed hegemony of the Peloponnese. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" The bulk of the army that defeated Mardonius at Plataea came from the Peloponnese; at Chaeronea no Peloponnesian state was represented. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z In the sense of “worker for the people” the word was used throughout the Peloponnese, with the exception of Sparta, and in many parts of Greece, for a higher magistrate. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" But Argos in Homer denotes two different places, a watered plain in the Peloponnese and a watered plain in Thessaly. Five Stages of Greek Religion Arcadia, on the other hand, in the heart of Peloponnese, retained till a late date a quite different dialect, akin to the ancient dialect of Cyprus, and more remotely to Aeolic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" Arcadia, a very mountainous country, the centre of the Peloponnese, was the last stronghold of the aboriginal Greeks. Keats: Poems Published in 1820 Ancient critics and travellers, however, bear ample testimony to his fame, and the wide range of his activity, which extended to northern Greece, Peloponnese and Asia Minor. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z There seemed to be difficulties in the way of his conclusion; the Dioscuri were very strong in the Peloponnese, yet the Spartans neglected the use of cavalry. The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus Dorian by birth, when Theophrastus was made head of the school he retired to the Peloponnese, and shows a certain prejudice against Athens. Five Stages of Greek Religion A disciple and rival of this philosopher in philosophy, in eloquence, and in science, he had fixed his residence in the Peloponnese. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 On more than one coin he is described as Antinous-Pan, showing that his Arcadian compatriots of Peloponnese and Bithynia paid him the compliment of placing him beside their great local deity. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series The Peloponnese was fairly equally divided between the Theban and the Spartan interests, and central Greece was similarly divided between the Theban and the Athenian. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z At last, after many more adventures, they came to the Cape of Malea, at the southwest point of the Peloponnese. Myths That Every Child Should Know A Selection Of The Classic Myths Of All Times For Young People Palestine was about the size of Wales; the entire Peloponnese was no larger than New Hampshire; Attica had nearly the same area as Cornwall. Ancient Egypt "I shall be very glad, and am extremely anxious for some favourable result to the recent pacific overtures of the contending parties in the Peloponnese." Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 With His Letters and Journals But since his foes began to squeeze My guns inside the Peloponnese His interest in me has ceased; I do not like it in the least. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 11, 1917 In the historical period the whole Peloponnese, with the exception of Arcadia, Elis and Achaea, is Dorian. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z Asclepius was gone into Peloponnese, to work his wondrous cures on men; and some say he used to raise the dead to life. Myths That Every Child Should Know A Selection Of The Classic Myths Of All Times For Young People For instance, I am to move my troops to the Peloponnese, so as to get them out of harm's way. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 31, 1917 In the second year of the war, Athens suffered from a fearful visitation of the plague, which, however, made no way in the Peloponnese. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval History Taygetus, a range of mountains in the Peloponnese, separating Laconia from Messina. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge Greek tradition explained the overthrow of the Achaean system by an invasion of the Peloponnese by the Dorians, a northern tribe, which had found a temporary home in Doris. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z The nations of the Peloponnese closed the isthmus of Corinth by a wall. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 1 And Antipater having murdered his mother Thessalonica, Alexander, the younger brother, called in to his assistance Pyrrhus out of Epirus, and Demetrius out of the Peloponnese. Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans Nicias sent to Athens for reinforcements, while the Syracusans were energetically fitting out a fleet and appealing for air in the Peloponnese. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval History Augustus instituted an Achaean synod comprising the dependent cities of Peloponnese and central Greece; this body sat at Argos and acted as guardian of Hellenic sentiment. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 In the Peloponnese it could count a majority of the states; in northern Greece at least a half of them. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z Bacchus, desirous to save his native town, causes a drought in the Peloponnese. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal But what the tone of Philip's utterance was, and how greatly he was confounded by what had happened, you can learn from his letter, which he sent to the Peloponnese. The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2 Then the rest of the Greek fleet was fain to withdraw from Salamis, and look to the safety of the Peloponnese only. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval History Similarly the Achaeans could not check the incursions of Aetolian adventurers in 220-218, and when Philip V. came to the rescue he made them tributary and annexed much of the Peloponnese. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 According to legend, the Ionians expelled from the Peloponnese collected at Athens before they started on their migrations to the coast of Asia Minor. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z Who was it that cried out that Philip was organizing Hellas and the Peloponnese against you, while you were asleep? The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 1 Then follows the reason for which this step was taken—'because he brought the gold from the Medes into the Peloponnese.' The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2 The Athenians concentrated on the expansion of their naval armaments, left the open country undefended and gathered within the city walls, and landed forces at will on the Peloponnese. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval History No, but let us wait a moment more, till the women of Boeotia arrive and those from the Peloponnese. The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 Apart from Arcadian the other dialects of the Peloponnese in historical times are all Doric, though in small details they differ among themselves. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z The power of Sparta in the Peloponnese had declined greatly. The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 1 Philip himself called upon his own friends in the Peloponnese for aid, and at last moved towards Amphissa. The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2 The fleet sailed round the Peloponnese, and the ravages it was able to inflict, with the alarm it created, caused the withdrawal of the forces in Attica. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval History He was for retreat to the Isthmus; he was for defending the Peloponnese, because in the Peloponnesus was the unsocial selfish Sparta, and leaving the rest of Hellas to the armament of Xerxes. Pausanias, the Spartan The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance In 411 he imagines the women of Athens, Peloponnese and Boeotia combining to force terms on the men by deserting their homes, under the leadership of Lysistrata. Authors of Greece After the fall of Olynthus in 348, the Athenians, on the proposal of Eubulus, sent embassies to the Greek States in the Peloponnese and elsewhere, to invite them to join in a coalition against Philip. The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 1 They are most numerous in Rhodes, in Caria and Ionia, and in the Peloponnese. The Ancient East He was thus enabled to seize and fortify Pylos, a position on the south-west of Peloponnese, with a harbour sheltered by the isle of Sphacteria. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval History All the cities in Peloponnese, both small and great, shall be independent according to the customs of their country. The History of the Peloponnesian War At Catana they found their state vessel waiting to convey Alcibiades home to stand his trial; he effected his escape on the homeward voyage, crossing to the Peloponnese. Authors of Greece In return, Argos and Messene complained to Athens of her interference with their attempt to secure freedom, and Philip sent envoys to deprecate the charges made against him by the Athenian ambassadors in the Peloponnese. The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 1 Or, in some cases, they might make return out of the store wherewith nature had provided them, Euboea rendering her copper, the Peloponnese her "purple," Crete her timber, the Cyrenaica its silphium. History of Phoenicia The capture of the island of Cythera in the next summer gave the Athenians a second strong station from which they could constantly menace the Peloponnese. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval History She also suspected some of the cities in Peloponnese of intending to go over to the enemy and that was indeed the case. The History of the Peloponnesian War He then outlined the Athenian ambition; it was to subdue Carthage and Sicily, bring over hosts of warlike barbarians, surround and reduce the Peloponnese and then rule the whole Greek-speaking world. Authors of Greece Tragedy too is claimed by certain Dorians of the Peloponnese. The Poetics of Aristotle And the Dorian institutions are more worthy of consideration than any other, having been evidently intended to be a protection not only to the Peloponnese, but to all the Hellenes against the Barbarians. Laws As a consequence, half the Peloponnese itself broke away from Sparta; a force under Epaminondas aided the Arcadians, and the Arcadian federation was established. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval History After the conclusion of the fifty years' truce and of the subsequent alliance, the embassies from Peloponnese which had been summoned for this business returned from Lacedaemon. The History of the Peloponnesian War The aggrieved states of the Peloponnese were invited to put their case at Sparta; Corinth drew a famous picture of the Athenian character, its restlessness, energy, adaptability and inventiveness. Authors of Greece If, moreover, you have a fancy for making a tour in Hellas or in the Peloponnese, I will yoke my horses, and will conduct you myself through all our principal cities. The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original At the conclusion of this address, the Lacedaemonians requested the allies to speak, bidding them give their joint advice as to the best course to be pursued in the interests of Peloponnese and the allies. Hellenica All this while great attention was being given to the war; the allies were being mustered, and an armament of a hundred ships equipped for Peloponnese. The History of the Peloponnesian War The Boeotians knew that an honourable friendship with Argos had been long the desire of Lacedaemon; for the Lacedaemonians believed that this would considerably facilitate the conduct of the war outside Peloponnese. The History of the Peloponnesian War The war began to spread beyond the Peloponnese to the north of the Corinthian gulf, the control of which was important to both sides. Authors of Greece Peloponnesians and allies, our fathers made many campaigns both within and without Peloponnese, and the elder men among us here are not without experience in war. The History of the Peloponnesian War Here was the chance to fill all the granaries of Peloponnese with corn. Hellenica The other, in Peloponnese, lies opposite to it; the sea between them is about three-quarters of a mile broad, and forms the mouth of the Crissaean gulf. The History of the Peloponnesian War If any of the powers outside Peloponnese invade Peloponnesian territory, the parties contracting shall unite to repel them, on such terms as they may agree upon, as being most fair for the Peloponnesians. The History of the Peloponnesian War The Spartans invaded Attica, cutting down the fruit trees and forcing the country folk into the city; the Athenians replied by ravaging parts of Peloponnese and Megara. Authors of Greece Meanwhile the Athenians in the hundred ships round Peloponnese, reinforced by a Corcyraean squadron of fifty vessels and some others of the allies in those parts, cruised about the coasts and ravaged the country. The History of the Peloponnesian War The greatness of Sparta was founded by the succour which Athens lent to the Heraklid invaders of the Peloponnese—a recollection which ought to restrain Sparta from injuring or claiming to rule Athens. Hellenica Arriving at Epidaurus in Peloponnese they ravaged most of the territory, and even had hopes of taking the town by an assault: in this however they were not successful. The History of the Peloponnesian War Meanwhile about dusk tidings reached them that the fifty-five ships from Peloponnese and Sicily might be instantly expected. The History of the Peloponnesian War However, Alcidas gave this proposal as bad a reception as the other, being eager, since he had come too late for Mitylene, to find himself back in Peloponnese as soon as possible. The History of the Peloponnesian War The Athenians also sent twenty vessels round Peloponnese to prevent any one crossing over to Sicily from Corinth or Peloponnese. The History of the Peloponnesian War The commanders told him that there was no lack of desert headlands in Peloponnese if he wished to put the city to expense by occupying them. The History of the Peloponnesian War Demosthenes also, who had remained without employment since his return from Acarnania, applied and obtained permission to use the fleet, if he wished it, upon the coast of Peloponnese. The History of the Peloponnesian War It had been less difficult for them to get an army to leave Peloponnese, because of the ill fortune of the Lacedaemonians at the present moment. The History of the Peloponnesian War The Helots accordingly were most forward to engage in this risky traffic, putting off from this or that part of Peloponnese, and running in by night on the seaward side of the island. The History of the Peloponnesian War They saw that the convoying of provisions round Peloponnese would be then impossible. The History of the Peloponnesian War Alcibiades, now an outlaw, crossed in a boat not long after from Thurii to Peloponnese; and the Athenians passed sentence of death by default upon him and those in his company. The History of the Peloponnesian War Meanwhile the Athenians in the hundred vessels were still cruising round Peloponnese. The History of the Peloponnesian War That all heralds and embassies, with as many attendants as they please, for concluding the war and adjusting claims, shall have free passage, going and coming, to Peloponnese or Athens by land and by sea. The History of the Peloponnesian War The Athenians in the hundred ships round Peloponnese on their journey home had just reached Aegina, and hearing that the citizens at home were in full force at Megara, now sailed over and joined them. The History of the Peloponnesian War But Themistocles got scent of their intentions, and fled from Peloponnese to Corcyra, which was under obligations towards him. The History of the Peloponnesian War For if while still unprepared, hurried away by the complaints of our allies, we are induced to lay it waste, have a care that we do not bring deep disgrace and deep perplexity upon Peloponnese. The History of the Peloponnesian War But he had, as it happened, been ostracized, and, with a residence at Argos, was in the habit of visiting other parts of Peloponnese. The History of the Peloponnesian War The Spartans now therefore gladly sent seven hundred as heavy infantry with Brasidas, who recruited the rest of his force by means of money in Peloponnese. The History of the Peloponnesian War Besides, Aegina lies so near Peloponnese that it seemed safer to send colonists of their own to hold it, and shortly afterwards the settlers were sent out. The History of the Peloponnesian War They said a good deal in praise of themselves, but nowhere denied that they are injuring our allies and Peloponnese. The History of the Peloponnesian War The Mede, we ourselves know, had time to come from the ends of the earth to Peloponnese, without any force of yours worthy of the name advancing to meet him. The History of the Peloponnesian War And yet they occupy two-fifths of Peloponnese and lead the whole, not to speak of their numerous allies without. The History of the Peloponnesian War The departure of the army from Peloponnese had been procured by the Thracian towns in revolt against Athens and by Perdiccas, alarmed at the successes of the Athenians. The History of the Peloponnesian War You, at all events, Lacedaemonians, have used your supremacy to settle the states in Peloponnese as is agreeable to you. The History of the Peloponnesian War Immediately summoning the allies to Lacedaemon, she came and loudly accused Athens of breach of the treaty and aggression on the rights of Peloponnese. The History of the Peloponnesian War It did not involve a breach of the treaty with Peloponnese: Athens could not be required to join Corcyra in any attack upon Corinth. The History of the Peloponnesian War The Athenians sent it upon the plea of their common descent, but in reality to prevent the exportation of Sicilian corn to Peloponnese and to test the possibility of bringing Sicily into subjection. The History of the Peloponnesian War Caria upon the sea with her Dorian neighbours, Ionia, the Hellespont, the Thracian towns, the islands lying between Peloponnese and Crete towards the east, and all the Cyclades except Melos and Thera. The History of the Peloponnesian War |
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