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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An ancient city of southern Greece in the eastern Peloponnesus. It contains extensive ruins of a pre-Homeric citadel.
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Tiryns, and Hermione and Asine which lie along a deep bay, and
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Him mighty Heracles slew in sea-girt Erythea by his shambling oxen on that day when he drove the wide-browed oxen to holy Tiryns, and had crossed the ford of Ocean and killed Orthus and Eurytion the herdsman in the dim stead out beyond glorious
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Potential rivals ruled in Pylos and Tiryns, but Sparta was in the hands of his younger brother and the power of Thebes had been broken in a civil war the generation before.
The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006
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Sometime around 1190/1180 B.C. a wave of destruction hit the major centers on the Greek mainland, including Pylos, Tiryns, Athens, and Mycenae itself.
The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006
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Sometime around 1190/1180 B.C. a wave of destruction hit the major centers on the Greek mainland, including Pylos, Tiryns, Athens, and Mycenae itself.
The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006
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Myth records that Greeks imported engineers from Lycia to build the stunning fortification walls of the city of Tiryns in the Peloponnesus.
The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006
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Myth records that Greeks imported engineers from Lycia to build the stunning fortification walls of the city of Tiryns in the Peloponnesus.
The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006
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Potential rivals ruled in Pylos and Tiryns, but Sparta was in the hands of his younger brother and the power of Thebes had been broken in a civil war the generation before.
The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006
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Then these, endeavouring to gain Argos back to themselves, cast them out; and the slaves being driven forth gained possession of Tiryns by fighting.
The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003
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Bulis and Aneristos the son of Sperthias (the same who conquered the men of Halieis, who came from Tiryns, by sailing into their harbour with a merchant ship filled with fighting men), — by this it is evident to me that the matter came to pass by the act of the Deity caused by this wrath.
The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003
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