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Peloponnese

noun
1.
The southern peninsula of Greece; dominated by Sparta until the 4th century BC.  Synonyms: Peloponnesian Peninsula, Peloponnesus.






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"Peloponnese" Quotes from Famous Books



... in language, a close, counterpart of the Assyrians, he would naturally suppose them descended from the same stock. It is his habit to transfer back to former times the condition of things in his own day. Thus he calls the inhabitants of the Peloponnese before the Dorian invasion "Dorians," regards Athens as the second city in Greece when Creesus sent his embassies, and describes as the ancient Persian religion that corrupted form which existed under Artaxerxes Longimanus. He is an excellent authority for what he had himself ...
— The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 1. (of 7): Chaldaea • George Rawlinson

... the substantial unity of man; though she draws towards it by roads of her own. But continually she is showing us affinity where we imagined there was isolation. What school-boy of us has not rummaged his Greek dictionary in vain for a satisfactory account of that old name for the Peloponnese, the Apian Land? and within the limits of Greek itself there is none. But the Scythian name for earth 'apia,' watery, water-issued, meaning first isle and then land—this name, which we find in 'avia,' ScandinAVIA, and in 'ey' for AldernEY, not only explains the Apian Land of Sophocles for us, ...
— Celtic Literature • Matthew Arnold



Words linked to "Peloponnese" :   Hellenic Republic, Peloponnesian Peninsula, Sparta, peninsula, Olympia, Greece, Ellas, Peloponnesus



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