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- proper noun A town and an ancient city in the
Messenia prefecture,Greece
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Examples
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This date of the first destruction at Mycenae in turn fits rather neatly with the date given by C.W. Blegen for the burning of the Palace of Nestor at Pylos, which is also 1200 B.C.
Alsop's Archeology Alsop, Joseph W. 1964
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The tablets also demonstrated that the precise geographical description of Nestor's kingdom at Pylos which is offered in Book II of the Iliad bears practically no relation to the Mycenaean facts; the conclusion, that the poet or poets knew little or nothing of western Greece, might already have been surmised from the confused and confusing Homeric descriptions of the hero's homeland, Ithaca.
Triumph of a Heretic Knox, Bernard 1978
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I sure would like to eat at Pylos - it sounds so wonderful.
Recipe for Artichoke Pastitsio with Basil Béchamel (Παστίτσιο με Αγκινάρες και Κρέμα Βασιλικό) Laurie Constantino 2009
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Does it make sense, said the whisperers in nearby Pylos, to build golf courses in an arid land, or to ask tens of thousands of people a year to fly in from around the world and threaten a virgin coastline?
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Laurie, this pastitsio reminds of the one I had at Pylos in NYC.
Recipe for Artichoke Pastitsio with Basil Béchamel (Παστίτσιο με Αγκινάρες και Κρέμα Βασιλικό) Laurie Constantino 2009
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Gull's mother lived in Troy until she was taken to be one of the many slaves of the king of Pylos.
Reviews of fantasy and science fiction books Kristen 2009
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Civil wars and political machinations among the Entrolusian City-States, Pylos and Turam.
“Canticle” by Ken Scholes (Reviewed by Robert Thompson) Robert 2009
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Civil wars and political machinations among the Entrolusian City-States, Pylos and Turam.
Archive 2009-09-01 Cindy 2009
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Also I saw upon Gerenian Nestor's prows twelve from Pylos the sign of his neighbor Alpheus, four-footed like a bull.
Iphigenia at Aulis 2008
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And with them Neleian Periclymenus set out to come, eldest of all the sons of godlike Neleus who were born at Pylos; Poseidon had given him boundless strength and granted him that whatever shape he should crave during the fight, that he should take in the stress of battle.
The Argonautica 2008
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