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    Eustathius of Thessalonica (or Eustathios of Thessalonike; Greek: Εὐστάθιος Θεσσαλονίκης; c. 1115 – c. 1195/6) was a Byzantine Greek scholar and Archbishop...
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  • The sack of Thessalonica in 1185 by Normans of the Kingdom of Sicily was one of the worst disasters to befall the Byzantine Empire in the 12th century...
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  • orator, and diplomat Eustathius (consul), Roman consul in 421 Eustathius of Mtskheta (died 551), Georgian saint Eustathius of Epiphania, sixth-century...
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    Thule (category Geography of Europe)
    situated to the north of Britain. Eustathius of Thessalonica, in his twelfth-century commentary on the Iliad, wrote that the inhabitants of Thule were at war...
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    Picolous (category Children of Gaia)
    scholars of the Middle Ages, Eustathius of Thessalonica and Patriarch Photios I of Constantinople, both of which quote earlier writers, Alexander of Paphos...
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    Thessaloniki (redirect from Thessalonica)
    Gregorios Palamas Matthew Blastares Eustathius of Thessalonica and Patriarch Philotheus I of Constantinople Paisios of Mount Athos Jurist Constantine Armenopoulos...
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  • Briseus (category Greek mythology of Anatolia)
    the father of Briseis (Hippodameia), a maiden captured by the Greeks during the Trojan War, as recorded in the Iliad.Eustathius of Thessalonica, a commentator...
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    numbers are unavailable, the bulk of the Latin community, estimated at 60,000 at the time by Eustathius of Thessalonica, was wiped out or forced to flee...
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    priest of Apollo at Chryse, near the city of Troy. According to a tradition mentioned by Eustathius of Thessalonica, Chryses and Briseus (father of Briseis)...
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    Amphitrite (category Women of Poseidon)
    Julius Hyginus, De Astronomica 2.17.1 Eustathius of Thessalonica, Commentary on Odyssey 3.91.1458, line 40. The Wedding of Neptune and Ampitrite provided a...
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    Io (mythology) (category Mortal women of Zeus)
    Burkert, Homo Necans (1974) 1983:164 note 14, giving bibliography. Eustathius of Thessalonica commentary on Dionysius Periegetes, 92; the Byzantine encyclopedia...
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    of Greece. Arnobius, Adversus Gentes (Against the Pagans). Suda. Eustathius of Thessalonica, Commentary on Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Dictionary of Greek...
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    showing Dionysius in Hephaestus' workplace. Eustathius of Thessalonica, first note on Ξ, 294; Kerenyi, Gods of the Greeks, p. 156 says it is also supported...
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    Empire of Thessalonica is a historiographic term used by some modern scholars to refer to the short-lived Byzantine Greek state centred on the city of Thessalonica...
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    Michael Choniates (category Bishops of Athens)
    studied at Constantinople and was the pupil of Eustathius of Thessalonica. Around 1175 he was appointed archbishop of Athens, a position which he retained until...
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    sorts of speculation". The only other authors to mention a Belleros killed by Bellerophon are two Byzantine scholars, John Tzetzes and Eustathius of Thessalonica...
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    Eel (redirect from Life-cycle of the eel)
    Eustathius of Thessalonica) is also related, translating to "the slayer of the serpent" (ahihán). In this theory, the ελλερο- is an adjective form of...
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  • Pandareus (category Deeds of Zeus)
    Ornithogonia Pausanias, 10.30.2 Antoninus Liberalis, 36 Eustathius on Homer, p. 1875 Eustathius of Thessalonica, On Homer's Odyssey 19.710 Homer, Odyssey 19.518...
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    like Photios, Arethas of Caesarea, Eustathius of Thessalonica, and Bessarion. Historian John Julius Norwich says that “much of what we know about antiquity—especially...
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    carnyx (κάρνυξ) by Eustathius of Thessalonica, who notes the instrument's animal-shaped bell. The root also appears in the names of Celtic polities, most...
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    perivallon’, in S. Dafis et al. (eds.), Fysekai Perivallon sto Agion Oros, Thessalonica, 1998. G. Sideropoulos, Agion Oros: anafores stēn anthropogeōgrafia,...
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  • Blood rain (redirect from Rain of blood)
    properties of distillation was echoed by Eustathius of Thessalonica, a 12th-century archbishop. Tatlock, in a study of some medieval cases of blood rain...
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  • Amarynceus (category Kings of Elis)
    been of great service to Augeas against Heracles, in return for which Augeas shared his throne with him. Hyginus, Fabulae 97 Eustathius of Thessalonica on...
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    Dionysius Periegetes (category Year of birth unknown)
    Rufius Festus Avienius, and by the grammarian Priscian. Archbishop Eustathius of Thessalonica wrote a commentary on his work for John Doukas. Encyclopædia Britannica...
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    Chryseis (category Women of the Trojan war)
    Modi, a work of erotic art which depicts her Scholia on the Iliad; Hesychius, Lexicon; Malalas, Chronographia 100; Eustathius of Thessalonica, Commentary...
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    593 and 594 of Orbis descriptio, Eustathius of Thessalonica describes the temple as the Coliadis Veneris Templum, Taprobana – Eustathius (archevêque de...
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    Seyhan River (category Rivers of Turkey)
    the Elder, and Eustathius of Thessalonica who erroneously calls it Sinarus. 50 km from its mouth, Seyhan River flows through the city of Adana, the only...
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    the establishment of the Empire of Thessalonica in 1224, and Thrace as far east as Didymoteicho and Adrianople, and was on the verge of recapturing Constantinople...
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  • government of Thessalonica. The Zealots managed to establish effective civic self-government for eight years. They confiscated the property of the aristocracy...
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  • Aristophanes. Routledge. p. 220., or other annotated versions of Lysistrata. Eustathius of Thessalonica. Παρεκβολαὶ εἰς τὴν Ὁμήρου Ἰλιάδα καὶ Ὀδύσσειαν [Commentaries...
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