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Page 297
... Heraclids , now under Hyllus , captured many cities in the Peloponnesus , but a year later a plague broke out which an oracle blamed on this premature invasion . Hyllus withdrew his forces , but , encouraged by the Delphic oracle's ...
... Heraclids , now under Hyllus , captured many cities in the Peloponnesus , but a year later a plague broke out which an oracle blamed on this premature invasion . Hyllus withdrew his forces , but , encouraged by the Delphic oracle's ...
Page 299
... Heraclids is the subject of no surviving work of literary importance . Though Euripides ' tragedy Children of Heracles chronicles the defeat of Eurystheus , the heroes are less the Heraclids themselves than their Athenian protectors ...
... Heraclids is the subject of no surviving work of literary importance . Though Euripides ' tragedy Children of Heracles chronicles the defeat of Eurystheus , the heroes are less the Heraclids themselves than their Athenian protectors ...
Page 561
... Heraclids and Dorians when they were about to invade the Peloponnesus . Theras ' sister , Argeia , married the Heraclid leader Aristodemus and bore him twin sons , Procles and Eurystheanes . When her husband was killed on the eve of the ...
... Heraclids and Dorians when they were about to invade the Peloponnesus . Theras ' sister , Argeia , married the Heraclid leader Aristodemus and bore him twin sons , Procles and Eurystheanes . When her husband was killed on the eve of the ...
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