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At Thebes in Boeotia there are more varied finds than on Lemnos ; they include many little bronze votive bulls and which carry on into Roman times, when the traveller Pausanias, always alert to the history of cults, learned that it was Demeter Kabeiriia who instigated the initiation cult there in the name of Prometheus and his son Aitnaios.
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At the confluence, the Ohio is even bigger than the Mississippi ( Ohio at Cairo: 281, 500 cu ft / s ( 7, 960 m < sup > 3 </ sup >/ s ); Mississippi at Thebes: 208, 200 cu ft / s ( 5, 897 m < sup > 3 </ sup >/ s )) and, thus, is hydrologically the main stream of the whole river system, including the Allegheny River further upstream.
At the seat of the Theban triad of Amun, Mut, and Khonsu, Thebes was known in the Egyptian language from the end of the New Kingdom as niwt-imn, " The City of Amun.
At Thebes, Cadmus and Harmonia began a dynasty with a son Polydorus, and four daughters, Agave, Autonoë, Ino and Semele.
At the wedding, whether celebrated at Samothrace or at Thebes, all the gods were present ; Harmonia received as bridal gifts a peplos worked by Athena and a necklace made by Hephaestus.
At Thebes and Orchomenos, a festival called Homolôïa, which was celebrated in honour of Zeus, Demeter, Athena and Enyo, was said to have received the surname of Homoloïus from Homoloïs, a priestess of Enyo.
At the funeral of their fathers, the sons of Seven Against Thebes ( Aegialeus, Alcmaeon, Amphilocus, Diomedes, Euryalus, Promachus, Sthenelus, Thersander ) met and vowed to vanquish Thebes one day.
At the same time, Pelopidas, an advocate of an aggressive policy against Sparta, had established himself as a major political leader in Thebes.
At the same time, however, Epaminondas managed through a series of diplomatic efforts to dismantle the Peloponnesian league: the remaining members of the league finally abandoned Sparta ( in 365 Corinth, Epidaurus, and Phlius made peace with Thebes and Argos ), and Messenia remained independent and firmly loyal to Thebes.
At Mantinea, Thebes had faced down the combined forces of the greatest states of Greece, but the victory brought it no spoils.
At this point the Theban left hit the Spartan right with the Sacred Band of Thebes led by Pelopidas at its head.
At Thebes he formed part of a family triad with Mut as his mother and Amun his father.
At Thebes she wrote of being " called to God " while a week later near Cairo she wrote in her diary ( as distinct from her far longer letters that her elder sister Parthenope was to print after her return ): " God called me in the morning and asked me would I do good for him alone without reputation.
At a meeting of the Spartan assembly to discuss the course of action, only one Spartan, named Prothous, was against war with Thebes.
" At Thebes, both met Antipater, whose invasion of Attica was expected imminently.
At Thebes he views the shields of those who died at the Battle of Leuctra, the ruins of the house of Pindar, and the statues of Hesiod, Arion, Thamyris, and Orpheus in the grove of the Muses on Helicon, as well as the portraits of Corinna at Tanagra and of Polybius in the cities of Arcadia.
At the conference that resulted, the Spartans proposed a peace based on the independence of all states ; this was rejected by the allies, as Athens wished to hold the gains it had made in the Aegean, Thebes wished to keep its control over the Boeotian league, and Argos already had designs on assimilating Corinth into its state.
At Thebes, Herihor usurped royal power without actually deposing Ramesses, and he effectively became the defacto ruler of Upper Egypt because his authority superseded the king's.
At Cairo he gained the support of the Mamluk ruler, Ali Bey ; after visiting Thebes ( where he entered the tomb of Ramesses III, KV11 ) he crossed the desert to Kosseir, where he embarked in the dress of a Turkish sailor.
At Thebes, the power of the chief priests of Amun Ramessesnakht grew at the expense of Pharaoh despite the fact that Isis, Ramesses VI's daughter, was connected to the Amun priesthood " in her role as God's Wife of Amun or Divine Adoratice.
At Thebes Antiope now suffered from the persecution of Dirce, the wife of Lycus, but at last escaped towards Eleutherae, and there found shelter, unknowingly, in the house where her two sons were living as herdsmen.
At this time, Thebes controlled a majority of the votes in the council, and at the autumn meeting in 357 BC, the Thebans were able to have both the Phocians ( for the cultivation of the sacred land ) and the Spartans ( for occupying Thebes some 25 years previously ) denounced and fined.
At and Boeotia
At the peace conference, the Spartan King Agesilaus II ( with the support of Athens ) refuses to allow the Thebans to sign the treaty on behalf of all Boeotia.
At the time when the worship of Dionysus was introduced into Boeotia, and while the other women and maidens were reveling and ranging over the mountains in Bacchic joy, these sisters alone remained at home, devoting themselves to their usual occupations, and thus profaning the days sacred to the god.
At the beginning of summer, Philip and his fleet left Macedon, sailed through the Euripus Strait, between the island of Euboea and Boeotia on the Greek mainland, and then rounded Cape Malea, before dropping anchor off the Islands of Cephalenia and Leucas, to await word of the location of the Roman fleet.
At Haliartos in Boeotia, Pausanias saw the open-air " sanctuary of the goddesses whom they call Praxidikae.
At Leuctra, in Boeotia, the Thebans comprehensively defeated an invading Spartan army.
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At General Power's seat in the balcony there is also a gold phone.
At either end and in the center there are bays which contain nine greater alcoves as frescoed and capacious as church apses.
At the beginning of the play she has partial illumination and at the end she has complete illumination, but there has been no question but that she moves toward the dark.
At Sounion there is a group of beautiful columns, the ruins of a temple to Poseidon, of particular interest at that time, as active reconstruction was in progress.
At the top of the stairs he ran into somebody standing there angrily in a dressing gown.
At the end of the room there was a desk heaped with papers, and she began to riffle these, making sighs and and noises of girlish exasperation.
`` At least there is room here '', she said.
At the same time there has been an upgrading and expansion of municipal services as well.
At one time about 10,000 people lived there.
At the present time we do not know by what biochemical mechanism TSH acts on the thyroid, but for bio-assay of the hormone there are a number of properties by which its activity may be estimated, including release of iodine from the thyroid, increase in thyroid weight, increase in mean height of the follicular cells and increase in the thyroidal uptake of Af.
At this time, however, there are signs that increased availability of mortgage credit will not act with the usual speed to stimulate a sharp rise in residential construction.
At the same time, there is a good deal of self-congratulation at attending a good college -- they are even inclined to exaggerate its not inconsiderable virtues -- and they express pleasure at the cozy in-group feeling that the college generates.
At one point in the game when the skinny old man in suspenders who was acting as umpire got in the way of a thrown ball and took it painfully in the kidneys, he lay there unattended while players and spectators wrangled over whether the ball was `` dead '' or the base runners were free to score.
I know Negroes who prefer the South and white Southerners, because `` At least there, you haven't got to play any guessing games ''!!
At last, sitting there, in the familiar surroundings, the truth began to sink in.
At the Hotel Dumont there had, at the time in issue, been twenty-three overnighters, counting couples as singular.
At Berger's direction, the city also intervened in the Hughes bankruptcy case in U. S. District Court in a move preliminary to filing a claim there.
At the same time, there was increased reason for a quick meeting lest the Soviet leader, as a result of those episodes, come to a dangerously erroneous conclusion about the West's ability and determination to resist Communist pressure.
At Oxford one hundred years ago there were very few Catholics, partly because religious tests were removed only in 1854.
At the start of her program there were evidences of pique.
At the end of the program, indeed, there was a demonstration that lasted for forty-five minutes, and nothing could stop it.
At the same time that I thought I understood her at long last and pitied her, underneath this knowing had there burned unquenched by my pity a fire of hate, an enduring envy that burst out in that ghastly outcry??
At last there was a void no one could fill.
* At Patara, in Lycia, there was a seasonal winter oracle of Apollo, said to have been the place where the god went from Delos.
At various times in the more than 100 years that have elapsed since the song was written, particularly during the John F. Kennedy administration, there have been efforts to give " America the Beautiful " legal status either as a national hymn, or as a national anthem equal to, or in place of, " The Star-Spangled Banner ", but so far this has not succeeded.
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