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- proper noun Alternative form of
Miletus .
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Examples
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That's also what happened to Miletos, which is now 10km from the sea.
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That's also what happened to Miletos, which is now 10km from the sea.
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Pericles' celebrated hetaera, Aspasia, came from Miletos.
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The temple structure never had a roof--- pilgrims hiked along the 17km Sacred Way from Miletos, then took a tunnel down through the temple foundations into an open courtyard surrounded by massive cyclopean foundations and the enormous Ionian pillars.
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Miletos planted no less than 90 colonies, mostly in the Black Sea region.
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Miletos was one of the leaders in resistance to the Persian conquerors, and was destroyed for its efforts--- and then was rebuilt on a grid system, the first city ever buit on such a plan.
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“Philosophy” or rather idea of the cosmos as an impersonal system was first produced in the very first monetized society, early sixth-century Ionia, and – even more specifically – in its commercial centre Miletos.
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Miletos planted no less than 90 colonies, mostly in the Black Sea region.
Miletos Tristesse Walter Jon Williams 2009
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“Philosophy” or rather idea of the cosmos as an impersonal system was first produced in the very first monetized society, early sixth-century Ionia, and – even more specifically – in its commercial centre Miletos.
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Miletos was an enormously powerful presence in its day.
Miletos Tristesse Walter Jon Williams 2009
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