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  • Athena, aka Sharon Valerri-Agathon, is a Cylon, always has been, and is known by all of the crew and to D'ana Biers to be a Cylon.

    BATTLESTAR GALACTICA to See Season Four | the TV addict 2007

  • I thought that I heard him called Agathon, and my suspicion is that he is the beloved of Pausanias.

    PROTAGORAS Plato 1889

  • I thought that I heard him called Agathon, and my suspicion is that he is the beloved of Pausanias.

    Protagoras 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

  • Song of Eros, in "Agathon" by George Edward Woodberry.

    0 1218. Song of Eros, in "Agathon" by George Edward Woodberry. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900 1900

  • Wieland disclaimed merit for any, but, under urgency, confessed that he liked best his "Agathon" and

    The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) William Milligan Sloane 1889

  • "Agathon," "Don Sylvio," and the "Comic Tales," becomes condensed and precise to a wonderful degree, as well as exceedingly graceful in

    Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1790

  • Sometimes also called "The Poet and the Women", it is now considered one of Aristophanes 'most brilliant parodies of Athenian society, [3] with a particular focus on the subversive role of women in a male-dominated society, the vanity of contemporary poets, such as the tragic playwrights Euripides and Agathon, and the shameless, enterprising vulgarity of an ordinary Athenian, as represented in this play by the protagonist, Mnesilochus.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009

  • Before leaving the city, Alexander appointed Agathon from the coastal Macedonian town of Pydna as commander of the citadel at Babylon with a thousand troops under him.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • Before leaving the city, Alexander appointed Agathon from the coastal Macedonian town of Pydna as commander of the citadel at Babylon with a thousand troops under him.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • It is a discussion on the nature of love, taking the form of a group of speeches, both satirical and serious, given by a group of men at a symposium or a wine drinking gathering at the house of the tragedian Agathon at Athens.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009

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