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... island of Ogygia , “ the navel of the sea , ” the centre of an un- limited expanse . § 3. The land was regarded as a single undivided body - the names Europe , Asia , and Libya marking , not the continental divisions , but particular ...
... island of Ogygia , “ the navel of the sea , ” the centre of an un- limited expanse . § 3. The land was regarded as a single undivided body - the names Europe , Asia , and Libya marking , not the continental divisions , but particular ...
Page 20
... islands of the Egæan and Ionian seas are mentioned : - Delos is occasionally named Ortygia ; Euboea appears as the ... island afterwards called after them being named Samos or Same ; Lecucadia or Leucas is described as a promontory of ...
... islands of the Egæan and Ionian seas are mentioned : - Delos is occasionally named Ortygia ; Euboea appears as the ... island afterwards called after them being named Samos or Same ; Lecucadia or Leucas is described as a promontory of ...
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... island of Cythera , to the land of the Loto- phagi in Africa . Henceforth we enter on the realm of fiction : he first reaches the island Ægusa , a reference to the Ægates , but erroneously placed to the S. instead of W. of Sicily ; he ...
... island of Cythera , to the land of the Loto- phagi in Africa . Henceforth we enter on the realm of fiction : he first reaches the island Ægusa , a reference to the Ægates , but erroneously placed to the S. instead of W. of Sicily ; he ...
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... island which has been absorbed into the mainland by the deposits of the Guadalquiver . Beyond the Pillars of ... islands off the coast of Italy , we hear of Sardo , Sardinia , which he wrongly describes as the largest in the then known ...
... island which has been absorbed into the mainland by the deposits of the Guadalquiver . Beyond the Pillars of ... islands off the coast of Italy , we hear of Sardo , Sardinia , which he wrongly describes as the largest in the then known ...
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... island of the blessed " ( iii . 26 ) , and more to the north the Oasis which contained the temple of Ammon , the modern Siwah ( ii , 32 ) . The remainder of northern Africa is divided by Herodotus into three zones , the sea coast , the ...
... island of the blessed " ( iii . 26 ) , and more to the north the Oasis which contained the temple of Ammon , the modern Siwah ( ii , 32 ) . The remainder of northern Africa is divided by Herodotus into three zones , the sea coast , the ...
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