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The software which is going to be used bears the name of Ephorus and is the product of a Utrecht based SME company.
Archive 2008-07-09 Jak Boumans 2008
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The software which is going to be used bears the name of Ephorus and is the product of a Utrecht based SME company.
Archive 2008-07-01 Jak Boumans 2008
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Ephorus, "since in effect they are publicly admitting that the boy is unworthy to get such a lover."
Frankie Thomas: The Children Are Our Future -- But What Is In Their Sordid Past? 2008
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The Ganymede myth was a cornerstone of Greek pederast culture, especially on the island of Crete, where inhabitants performed a ritual described by the Greek historian Ephorus: men would ceremonially "abduct" young boys, taking them into the countryside for two months of feasting, hunting, and sexual intercourse.
Frankie Thomas: The Children Are Our Future -- But What Is In Their Sordid Past? 2008
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The software which is going to be used bears the name of Ephorus and is the product of a Utrecht based SME company.
Archive 2008-07-20 Jak Boumans 2008
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Ephorus in Strabo (x. 4 § 21) gives a curious account of the violent abduction of beloved boys ({Greek}) by the lover ({Greek}); of the obligations of the ravisher ({Greek}) to the favourite
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Green, ch.i. p. 7: “London, in fact, is placed at what is very nearly the geometrical centre of those masses of land which make up the earth surface of the globe, and is thus more than any city of the world the natural point of convergence for its different lines of navigation,” etc. The natural advantages of Boeotia are similarly set forth by Ephorus.
Ways and Means 2007
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That this tribe (the Pelasgi) were from Arcadia, Ephorus states on the authority of Hesiod; for he says: ‘Sons were born to god-like Lycaon whom Pelasgus once begot.’
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Aristotle says he was of Iete; the historian Ephorus says he was from Kyme.
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Ephorus the historiographer, that in summer all Egypt seems to be melted and sweats itself into water, to which the thin and sandy soils of
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