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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An ancient Greek city of southern Italy near the Gulf of Taranto. In 280 BC it was the site of one of Pyrrhus's victories over the Romans.
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Megabyzus took Perinthos (afterwards called Heraclea) and conquered Thrace.
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes
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Megabyzus took Perinthos (afterwards called Heraclea) and conquered Thrace.
The Birds 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes
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The settlement effected, they fortified anew the city, now called Heraclea, distant about four miles and a half from Thermopylae and two miles and a quarter from the sea, and commenced building docks, closing the side towards Thermopylae just by the pass itself, in order that they might be easily defended.
The History of the Peloponnesian War 455? BC-395 BC Thucydides 1866
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6 They established and fortified the city, now called Heraclea, on a new site, about four miles and a half from Thermopylae and two miles and a quarter from the sea; and commenced building docks, closing the side toward Thermopylae just by the pass itself, in order that they might be easily defended.
THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003
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6 They established and fortified the city, now called Heraclea, on a new site, about four miles and a half from Thermopylae and two miles and a quarter from the sea; and commenced building docks, closing the side toward Thermopylae just by the pass itself, in order that they might be easily defended.
THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003
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In the fourth century B.C., Greek solider and author Xenophon wrote that an oar-powered Athenian warship, a trireme, could row from Byzantium to Heraclea -- 236 kilometers away -- in a day.
Peter McAllister: Manthropology: The Science Of The Inadequate Modern Male Peter McAllister 2011
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In the fourth century B.C., Greek solider and author Xenophon wrote that an oar-powered Athenian warship, a trireme, could row from Byzantium to Heraclea -- 236 kilometers away -- in a day.
Peter McAllister: Manthropology: The Science Of The Inadequate Modern Male Peter McAllister 2011
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In the fourth century B.C., Greek solider and author Xenophon wrote that an oar-powered Athenian warship, a trireme, could row from Byzantium to Heraclea -- 236 kilometers away -- in a day.
Peter McAllister: Manthropology: The Science Of The Inadequate Modern Male Peter McAllister 2011
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In the fourth century B.C., Greek solider and author Xenophon wrote that an oar-powered Athenian warship, a trireme, could row from Byzantium to Heraclea -- 236 kilometers away -- in a day.
Peter McAllister: Manthropology: The Science Of The Inadequate Modern Male Peter McAllister 2011
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However, our scouts began to go on ahead until they came to Heraclea, in which town there was a very large gathering of Turks, waiting and plotting how they could harm and put to grief the knights of Christ.
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