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  • And after everything — after that legendary clash of disparate prides, after the tricked parting, the slave market at Aigina, all these years of half-stolen meetings — now in this man of forty, a diplomat, a soldier, the flame revived when the coals were blown on; he was ready to try again.

    The Mask of Apollo Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1966

  • When the poor professor opened his mouth too wide, wasn't he not only chased out of Syracuse, but put on a ship for Aigina when they'd just passed sentence of slavery on any Athenian landing there?

    The Mask of Apollo Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1966

  • I have seen such faces in old shrines; there is an Artemis at Aigina very like her.

    The Mask of Apollo Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1966

  • In that moment I was as sure as if I had seen it that the tale was true about the slave market at Aigina.

    The Mask of Apollo Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1966

  • [Footnote A: In counting the Aigina temple we commit deliberately a _circulus in probando_.]

    The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 Various

  • Greek Revolution were an exact reproduction of the Aigina, Korinth, and

    The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey Nevill Forbes 1906

  • Greece from his palace at Aigina like a divinely appointed autocrat, from his arrival in January 1828 till the summer of 1831, when he provoked the

    The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey Nevill Forbes 1906

  • And they that possessed Argos and Tiryns of the great walls, Hermione and Asine that enfold the deep gulf, Troizen and Eionai and Epidauros full of vines, and the youths of the Achaians that possessed Aigina and

    The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1882

  • In Athens there were four or five for each citizen, and in places like Korinth and Aigina the slave population is said to have numbered four or five hundred thousand.

    The Unseen World, and Other Essays 1876

  • Korinth and Aigina the slave population is said to have numbered four or five hundred thousand.

    The Unseen World and Other Essays John Fiske 1871

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