Judging from the Parian Marble, she was exiled from Lesbos to Sicily sometime between 604 and 594 BC.

According to the Parian Marble, Sappho was exiled to Sicily sometime between 604 and 594 and Cicero records that a statue of her stood in the town-hall of Syracuse.

For example, according to an entry in the Parian Marble, Simonides died in 468 / 7 BC at the age of ninety yet, in another entry, it lists a victory by his grandfather in a poetry competition in Athens in 489 / 8 BC — this grandfather must have been over a hundred years old at that time if the birth dates for Simonides are correct.

The grandfather's name, as recorded by the Parian Marble, was also Simonides, and it has been argued by some scholars that the earliest references to Simonides in ancient sources might in fact be references to this grandfather.

However, the Parian Marble is known to be unreliable and possibly it was not even the grandfather but a grandson that won the aforementioned victory in Athens.

* The Parian Marble, the earliest extant example of a Greek chronological table

: For the tablet known as the Parian Marble or Marmor Parium, see Parian Chronicle.

* Parian Marble: Famous statues of Parian Marble

: Parian Marble redirects here ; for marble from Paros, see Parian marble.

It might have been caused by the Minoan eruption of Thera which according to the Parian Chronicle occurred in 1627, or the Avellino eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

* Actaeus, King of Athens, first King of Athens according to the Parian Chronicle succeeded in the throne by Cecrops I

On the basis of the archaeological stele known as the Parian Chronicle, Deucalion's Flood was usually fixed as occurring sometime around c. 1528 BC.

The Paros museum contains a fragment of the Parian Chronicle, a remarkable chronology of ancient Greece.

During the years that followed Porson continued to contribute to the leading reviews, writing in the Monthly Review the articles on Joseph Robertson's Parian Chronicle, Thomas Edwards's Plutarch on Education, and Richard Payne Knight's Essay on the Greek Alphabet.

Among them is the Parian Chronicle, inscribed about 263 BC so called because it was found on Paros, which gives Greek dates from 1582 BC down to 354 BCE Among outstanding pieces is a metrological relief that shows parts of the human body, outstretched arms, elbow to finger tips, foot, clenched fists and fingers and was used as a standard unit of measure.

The dates for the following kings were conjectured centuries later, by historians of the Hellenistic era who tried to backdate events by cross-referencing ancient sources such as the Parian Chronicle.

According to the Parian Chronicle, there appears to have been a competition on this occasion, in which the prize was a basket of figs and an amphora of wine.

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The Parian Chronicle mentions that Phthia was the homeland of the Hellenes and that this name was given to those previously called Greeks (). Alcman ( 7th century BC ) also refers that the mothers of Hellenes were Graikoi.

In the Parian Chronicle is mentioned that Phthia was the homeland of Hellenes and that this name was given to those previously called Graikoi ().

He is seen in the tradition of other tyrants, like Gyges of Lydia, as an outsider to the ruling caste in some ways even though a fragment of the Parian Chronicle confirms him to have been a noble and places him as eleventh in line from Heracles.

Herodotus further states that Pheidon established a system of weights and measures throughout Peloponnesus, to which Ephorus and the Parian Chronicle add that he was the first to coin silver money, and that his mint was at Aegina.

The name of king Croesus of Lydia remains associated with the invention ( although the Parian Chronicle mentions Pheidon of Argos as a contender ).

Inscriptions in the Archilocheion identify Archilochus as a key figure in the Parian cult of Dionysus There is no evidence to back isolated reports that his mother was a slave, named Enipo, that he left Paros to escape poverty, or that he became a mercenary soldier — the slave background is probably inferred from a misreading of his verses ; archaeology indicates that life on Paros, which he associated with " figs and seafaring ", was quite prosperous ; and though he frequently refers to the rough life of a soldier, warfare was a function of the aristocracy in the archaic period and there is no indication that he fought for pay.

Locrus was also a Parian statuary, of unknown date whose statue of Athena in the temple of Ares, at Athens, is mentioned by Pausanias.

El Parian is an arts and crafts market, within walking distance of the plaza.

Parian marble, which is white and translucent ( semi-transparent ), with a coarse grain and a very beautiful texture, was the chief source of wealth for the island.

The architectural sculpture is in both Pentelic and Parian marble.

Of the important works that come done to us there is the colossal kouros from Megera ( NAMA 13 ), a transitional early piece from Boeotia ( Thebes 3 ) and an early Parian example ( Louvre MND 888 ).

It remained a favorite both with him ( it figures prominently in Johann Zoffany's iconic painting of Townley's library ( illustration, right ), was one of three ancient marbles Townley had reproduced on his visiting card, and was apocryphally the one which he wished he could carry with him when his house was torched in the Gordon Riots-apocryphal since the bust is in fact far too heavy for that ) and with the public ( Joseph Nollekens is said to have always had a marble copy of it in stock for his customers to purchase, and in the late 19th century Parian ware copies were all the rage.

Parian marble is a fine-grained semitranslucent pure-white and entirely flawless marble quarried during the classical era on the Greek island of Paros in the Aegean Sea.

The Parian Ware is an artificial substitute for marble made from unglazed porcelain, developed in 1842 in England.

The relief is 0. 48 m high and made of Parian marble.

The term is used to describe soft porcelains such as bone china, Seger porcelain, vitreous porcelain, new Sèvres porcelain, Parian porcelain and soft feldspathic porcelain, and is also used more narrowly to describe clay bodies mixed with glass frit, used mainly in the production of decorative figures and domestic wares in 18th century Europe.

* It is the exclusive American importer of Belleek Fine Parian China and Aynsley Fine English Bone China Tableware.

Some of his descendants are: the Greek artist Lydia Venieri, the Greek-Canadian architect Constantine Venieris, George Venieris of the Parian Venieris family, the Greek actress of late ' 80s Irene Venieri and the qualified social education worker and business coach Kalliopi Venieri.

Some of the greatest masterpieces of ancient Greek sculpture were carved from Parian marble, including the Medici Venus and the Winged Victory of Samothrace.

The Venus de Milo was found to have been carved from at least six or seven blocks of Parian marble: one block for the nude torso, another block for the draped legs, another block apiece for each arm, another small block for the left foot, another block for the inscribed plinth, and finally, the separately carved herm that stood beside the statue.

Coin from ancient Thasos showing Satyr and nymph, dated to late fifth century BC. Archilochus was involved in the Parian colonization of Thasos about two centuries before the coin was minted.

It included a crown of stags and little Nikes and was made by Pheidias after the Battle of Marathon ( 490 BC ), crafted from a block of Parian marble brought by the overconfident Persians, who had intended to make a memorial stele after their expected victory.

Commercial activity was dislodged from the main plaza completely by the early 19th century and placed in the San Francisco Parian market.

Before the American Era, entrance to the city was through eight gates or Puertas namely ( clockwise, from Fort Santiago ) Puerta Almacenes, Puerta de la Aduana, Puerta de Santo Domingo, Puerta Isabel II, Puerta del Parian, Puerta Real, Puerta Sta.

Separated from the indigenous population ; the Chinese migrants were residents in a neighbourhood called pariancillo, Los Sangleyes del parian ( The Sangleyes of Parian ); and the Spanish settlers were residents in a town called Los Españoles de la Villa ( The Town of the Spaniards ).

There remains still another source of light to be considered, that passing through the Parian marble tiles of the roof ; the superior translucency of Parian to any other marble may have suggested its employment for the roofs of temples, and if, in the framed ceilings carried over the celia, openings were left, some light from the Parian tile roof might have been obtained.

After a mob burned the Viceregal Palace in the 1690s, the Plaza was completely cleared to make way for the " Parian ", a set of shops set in the southwest corner of the Plaza used to warehouse and sell products brought by galleons from Europe and Asia.

This, however, did not keep the rest of the Plaza from becoming filled again with makeshift stalls such as the group known as " San Jose " located next to the Parian itself.

The cella of the new temple housed the cult figure of Nemesis alone, carved by Agorakritos, a pupil of Pheidias, from the block of Parian marble alleged to have been brought by the overconfident Persians for their triumphal stele.

The territories of ancient Greece, except for Sicily and southern Italy, contained abundant supplies of fine marble, with Pentelic and Parian marble the most highly prized, along with that from modern Prilep in Macedonia, and various sources in modern Turkey.