• Phigalia (redirect from Phigaleia)
    Phigalia or Phigaleia or Phigalea (Ancient Greek: Φιγαλεία or Φιγαλέα or Φιγάλεια or Φιγαλία), also known as Phialia (Φιαλία or Φιάλεια), was an ancient...
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    which he was designated as the giver of unmixed wine, and worshipped at Phigaleia in Arcadia. In Sicyon he was worshiped by the name Acroreites. As Bacchus...
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    their League in the areas of Tegea, Mantinea, Orchomenus, Psophida and Phigaleia. Between 220 and 217 BC, the Social War broke out between the Achaean...
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    thereafter. The collections were supplemented by the Bassae frieze from Phigaleia, Greece in 1815. The Ancient Near Eastern collection also had its beginnings...
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    following epithets: Acratophorus, Ἀκρατοφόρος ("giver of unmixed wine"), at Phigaleia in Arcadia. Acroreites at Sicyon. Adoneus, a rare archaism in Roman literature...
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    Arcadian Mysteries, and a horse named Arion, with a black mane and tail. At Phigaleia, a xoanon (wood-carved statue) of Demeter was erected in a cave which...
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    chokehold. His body was crowned with the olive wreath and returned to Phigaleia as a hero. By the Imperial Period, the Romans had adopted the Greek combat...
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    Callista Cleitor Dipaea Elisphasi Gortys Lusi Methydrium Pallantium Pheneus Phigaleia Teuthis Theisoa Thelpusa Megara (243–223 BC / after 197 BC again) Aegina...
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    sent an expeditionary force under Scopas and Dorimachus to the city of Phigaleia, in Triphylia on the Messenian border. On the way, these troops pillaged...
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  • Acratophorus, the "unmixed wine" epithet by which Dionysus was worshiped in Phigaleia in Arcadia. Pausanias, i. 2. § 4 Schmitz, Leonhard (1867), "Acratopotes"...
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