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Lykaion and while
Authors are in disagreement as to when exactly the games were first instituted: Aristotle is said to have ranked the Lykaion games fourth in order of institution after the Eleusinia, the Panathenaia, and the Argive games, while Pausanias argues for the Lykaian competition ’ s priority to the Panathenaia.

Lykaion and from
The hippodrome at Mount Lykaion, located in a valley below and to the north of the altar, is the only extant hippodrome from Greek antiquity, and is therefore crucial to our understanding of Greek athletic festivals.
The excavations of Kourouniotes in 1903 of the altar and its nearby temenos determined definite cult activity at the Lykaion altar from the late 7th century b. c. e, including animals bones, miniature tripods knives, and statuettes of Zeus holding an eagle and a lightning bolt.

Lykaion and BC
Lykaion in 227 BC between the Achaean League under Aratus and the Spartans under Cleomenes III.

Lykaion and where
Lykaion has two peaks, the northern one higher ( 1421 m ) than the southern ( 1382 m ), where the altar of Zeus is located.
Lykaion Excavation and Survey Project, a joint effort of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Arizona began work at the site in 2004, with the aim of continuing the topographical survey begun in 1996 and carrying out a full topographical and architectural analysis not only of the altar and temenos, but of the nearby valley where the Lykaian Games were held.
The 2nd-century Greek geographer Pausanias provides the greatest amount of information in the eighth book of his Description of Greece, where he discusses Lykaion ’ s mythological, historical, and physical characteristics in detail.

Lykaion and built
The town is built on a hillside, northwest of mount Lykaion.

Lykaion and sacred
Mount Lykaion is sacred to Zeus Lykaios, who was said to have been born and brought up on it, and was the home of Pelasgus and his son Lycaon, who is said to have founded the ritual of Zeus practiced on its summit.
The earth-altar may correspond to a Linear B mention of an " open-fire altar "; Linear B ( 14th-13th centuries BCE ) inscriptions also give the first mentions of offerings to Zeus and of the sacred precinct ( temenos ) near the altar, such as has been excavated at Lykaion

Lykaion and Zeus
He is Arkas the son of Kallisto and Zeus, and he lived in the country about Lykaion.
According to some, the modern name of the mountain is Diaforti ( Gell gives " Dioforti " or " Dioforte "), which is presumed to consist of two Greek words: " Dias ", the name of Zeus in modern Greek, and " fero ," a verb meaning " I bring ," thus meaning that Mount Lykaion is a mountain that brings Zeus.
Lykaion as the birthplace of Zeus, although tradition had handed down at least two other locations for Zeus ’ birth.
Lykaion and Crete, both of which are given as the birthplace of Zeus by ancient sources.

Lykaion and .
Lykaion ( 1421 m, ;,, ) is a mountain in Arcadia.
Lykaion Excavation and Survey Project.
Lykaion, its religious significance, and its quadrennial athletic games appear with some frequency in the ancient literary sources.
Lykaion, giving the god the epithet Lykaios and establishing games in his honor.
Lykaion during the Second Messenian War, a revolt against the Spartans.
Lykaion extended between the camps of both sides, causing some consternation among the Macedonians due to their unfamiliarity with the terrain.
Lykaion was an important site of religious worship in ancient Greece.
The athletic competitions at Lykaion, held every four years, receive occasional mention in the literary record.
Pliny the Elder, an imperial Roman polymath, states that the games at Lykaion were the first to introduce gymnastic competition.
Lykaion was initially excavated by the Greek Archaeological Service, first in 1897 by archaeologist K. Kontopoulos and again in 1902 by K. Kourouniotes.
Lykaion Excavation and Survey Project under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Arizona.
The early 20th century excavator of Lykaion, Kouriouniotis discovered stone blocks in the middle of the hippodrome that would have formed the starting line of the stadium.

while and exile
Reinhard Heydrich was killed after an attack by British trained Czechoslovak soldiers on behalf of the Czechoslovak government in exile in Operation Anthropoid, and knowledge from decoded transmissions allowed the U. S. to carry out a targeted attack, killing Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto while he was travelling by plane.
Ezekiel and Jeremiah wrote prior to the fall of Jerusalem, while continuing to prophesy in the earlier exile period.
According to the preserved part of the inscription, unintentional homicides receive a sentence of exile, while intentional murders are punishable by death.
Arroyo partisans were promptly jailed or sent into exile, while Velasco verbally baited the business community and the rest of the political right.
Meanwhile Rome had drifted further into reaction, and Contarini died while legate at Bologna, at a time when the Inquisition had driven many of his friends and fellows in conviction into exile.
The Gestapo ( secret police ) under Heinrich Himmler destroyed the political opposition and persecuted the Jews, trying to force them into exile, while taking their property.
The real population transfer figures are somewhat contested by historians, though the general perception is that significant portion of local population had remained, while the exile was largely of the nobility class.
His second son Alexander became King, while the remaining royal family and the most prominent royalists followed into exile.
The monastery was built with funds given by the Byzantine Emperor Constantine IX, after three monks, living in caves nearby, had petitioned him while he was in exile on the island of Mytilene.
Schwitters started a second Merzbau while in exile in Lysaker nearby Oslo, Norway in 1937 but abandoned it in 1940 when the Nazis invaded ; this Merzbau was subsequently destroyed in a fire in 1951.
Napoleon III was taken prisoner at Sedan and kept in Germany for a while in case Bismarck had need of him to head a puppet regime ; he later died in exile in England in 1873.
Many appear to have been written early in the history of ancient Israel ( first millennium BC or even earlier ), while others may have been written after the exile to Babylon, which occurred in the sixth century BC.
During early 772, as Stephen fell ill and was soon clear that he was dying, Afiarta took advantage of this to exile a number of influential clergy and nobles from Rome, while others he put into prison.
Edmund's son Henry Tudor, born in Pembroke, grew up in south Wales and in exile in Brittany, while his mother Lady Margaret remained in England and remarried, quietly advancing the cause of her son in a Kingdom now ruled by the rival House of York.
While in exile, his brother Jama Mbeki, a supporter of the rival Pan Africanist Congress, was killed by agents of the Lesotho government in 1982 while attempting to assist the Lesotho Liberation Army.
Æthelred and Emma's two sons, Edward and Alfred, went into exile in Normandy while their mother, Emma, became Cnut's second wife.
On 29 November 1945, while still in exile, King Peter II was deposed by Yugoslavia's Constituent Assembly.
** The Emir of Kuwait, Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, returns to Kuwait after seven months of exile while his country was occupied by Iraq.
Napoleon shortly returned from exile, landing in France on March 1, 1815, marking the War of the Seventh Coalition, heading toward Paris while the Congress of Vienna was sitting.
During Rama's exile in the forest, Ravana kidnapped his wife Sita from their hut while Rama was hunting a golden deer, and his brother Lakshman went after him.
The King remained in Belgium during the war as a German prisoner while the government went into exile and continued military action in the Allied cause.
President Kruger first went to Marseille and then on to The Netherlands where he stayed for a while before moving finally to Clarens, Switzerland, where he died in exile on 14 July 1904.
But the disturbances of the imperialist party, especially those of the Frangipani, who attacked the Pope while celebrating Mass in the church of St. Prassede, compelled Gelasius II to go once more into exile.
It is clear that there were later connections between Cinna and this group ( see " Preparations while in exile "), but it is not clear at what point he took up this cause.

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