Some tyrants on the coast of the Ægean Sea willingly submitted to the new dominion, and others resisting, like Hermias of Atarneus, the friend of Aristotle, were seized and put to death.
Aristagoras, satrap of Miletus, revolts, and is supported by the Greeks on the Ægean Sea.
From the harbours of Rhodes it was a simple matter to sail to the smaller isles of the archipelago, and so, by easy stages, to the Ægean coasts of Greece and Asia Minor.
After the Persian conquest the Mæander was regarded as its southern boundary, and in the Roman period it comprised the country between Mysia and Caria on the one side, and Phrygia and the Ægean on the other.
The Hittites had overrun Asia Minor and established themselves on the shores of the Ægean before the reign of the Egyptian king, Ramses II.
Whether they originally came from the Ægean Islands or no, it seems that they had sent out colonies to the Cyclades, Samos, etc.
From here the Hittites penetrated into Phrygia and to the coast of the Ægean Sea.
The stations on the Ægean are early abandoned--but the Phœnicians remain in Cyprus until ousted by the Dorians.
For Athens again took up arms, and having united her fleet to that of Persia, she patrolled the Ægean Sea, the island of Cythera was taken by Conon, and the long walls were rebuilt at the expense of the Great King.
Phœnicians were familiar with the whole of the Ægean Sea, which they had probably reached in the first instance by way of the south coast of Asia Minor and the island of Rhodes.
The fleets were placed under Greek admirals, and the cruel Ochus entirely owed his victories to this preponderance of European command, and the fact was so well known beyond the Ægean Sea that the question was openly discussed there.
It flows through the Vale of Tempe, and between the mountains Ossa and Pelion, emptying finally into the Ægean Sea.
The blue Ægean girds this chosen home, With ever-changing sound and light and foam Kissing the sifted sands and caverns hoar; And all the winds wandering along the shore Undulate with the undulating tide.
Footnote 27: One of the larger islands of the Ægean Sea, its area being about one hundred and eighty square miles.
When it began, Athens with her allies included all the coast cities of Asia Minor as far south as Lycia, the cities bordering on the Thracian and Chalcidian shores, and nearly all the islands of the Ægean Sea.
Footnote 119: Mausolus was King of Caria, a country lying on the Ægean Sea in Asia Minor.
Him likewise perchance furious alike impelling, and the spoils of the Ægean deity whatsoever by means of madness notwithstanding to be about to be sacrificed.
Footnote 53: Rhodes is the largest island in the Ægean Sea after Crete and Euboea.
It was situated three miles inland from the Ægean Sea.
The site of Troy is upon a plateau on the eastern shore of the Ægean Sea, about 4 miles from the coast and 4-1/2 miles southeast from the port of Sigeum.
Persian possessions on the north of the Ægean Sea.
The people of Corcyra acceded to the proposals made to them, and promised at once to equip and man their fleet, and send it round into the Ægean Sea.
North of the promontory of Mount Athos the reader will find upon the map the River Strymon, flowing south, not far from the boundary between Macedon and Thrace, into the Ægean Sea.
The Peneus flows eastwardly to the Ægean Sea, and escapes from the great valley through a narrow and romantic pass lying between the Mountains Olympus and Ossa.
By looking at the map of Greece, placed at the commencement of the next chapter, the reader will see that there are two or three singular promontories jutting out from the main land in the northwestern part of the Ægean Sea.
The chief scene of activity, during all this time, was the tract of country in the western part of Asia Minor, and along the shores of the Ægean Sea.
Not far from the mouth of the Hebrus, where it emptied into the Ægean Sea, was a great plain, which was called the plain of Doriscus.
You will throw a bridge across the Hellespont, so as to take your troops round through the northern parts of Europe into Greece, and you will also, at the same time, have a powerful fleet in the Ægean Sea.
My plan for gaining access to the Grecian territories is not, as before, to convey the troops by a fleet of galleys over the Ægean Sea, but to build a bridge across the Hellespont, and march the army to Greece by land.
It was, therefore, the territory which the Persian armies would first enter, on turning the northwestern corner of the Ægean Sea.
Their ancestors had crossed the Ægean Sea, and settled at various places along the coast of Asia Minor, in the western part of the provinces of Caria, Lydia, and Mysia.
An army encamped here commands the Ægean and the Sea of Marmora, and can be marched northwards to the Balkan, or sent across to Asia or up to Constantinople with equal facility.
For the view that she was a native Ægean deity see Farnell, Greece and Babylon, p.
We have probably to deal with a total period of civilization in the Ægean not much shorter than in the Nile Valley.
As time has gone on, however, the Phnicians have gradually come to bulk less and less in the view of students of the Ægean problem.
It is unfortunate that so far we have no large-scale representations of the ships in which these early masters of the ocean conducted the sea-borne commerce of the Ægean world.
Maraghiannis] Up to the present time it cannot be said that any object unquestionably Mesopotamian has been found on any Ægean site, nor any object unquestionably Ægean on a Mesopotamian one.
Queen Elizabeth'--as evidence of how utterly unlike was the costume of prehistoric woman in the Ægean area to the stately and simple lines of the classic Greek dress.
Defn: Of or pertaining to Paros, an island in the Ægean Sea noted for its excellent statuary marble; as, Parian marble.
It is somewhat probable that it extended considerably towards the west and north-west in the direction of the Ægean Sea.
Some took their way towards Assyria and Babylon, while others embarked at Tyre or Sidon for the islands of the Ægean Archipelago.
Some of the symbols in the inscriptions found on their monuments recall certain of the Egyptian characters, while others present an original aspect and seem to be of Ægean origin.
The identification with the Siculo-Pelasgi of the Ægean Sea was proposed by Maspero.
The Carians were dominant in the southern angle of the peninsula and in the Ægean Islands; and the Lycians lay next them on the east, and were sometimes confounded with them.
Once inside the Mediterranean he headed for the south of Greece, escaping attack from a French destroyer and proceeding through the Ægean Sea to the Dardanelles.
In no other way is it possible to explain the risking of this capital ship in the highly dangerous operations in the Ægean sea.
By March 15 the French force had been gathered together at Bizerta, in the Ægean Sea.
At the same time the Australian and New Zealand troops were to effect a landing at Gaba Tepe, about twelve miles up the Ægean coast of the peninsula and about three and a half miles south of Sari Bair.
Greece and Italy had already nearly come to blows over their clashing interests in southern Albania, yet even this was a small matter compared to rivalry in the Ægean and Asia Minor.
It connects the Ægean Sea and the Sea of Marmora, which in turn, through the Bosphorus, connects with the Black Sea.
Footnote 44: In the Turkish island of Lemnos, one of the largest islands in the Ægean Sea.
Now let us suppose that we are making a voyage from the Ægean Sea to the Sea of Marmora in times of peace.
At the same time came a dispatch from Athens announcing that the French and British ships had begun to institute a severe search on board all steamers flying the Greek flag in the Ægean and in the Mediterranean.
The northern shores of the Ægean and those of the Hellespont and the Propontis were fringed with colonies.
Twelve hundred galleys bore the gathered clans from Aulis in Greece, across the Ægean to the Trojan shores.
The towns on the Thracian and Macedonian coasts, and the islands of the Ægean belonging to the Athenian Empire, now fell into the hands of the Peloponnesians.
In the wild state it is variously called Mazzard, Bird, Wild, Crab and the Gean cherry.
This is Prunus avium, which is very generally wild in Britain--the Geanof the English.
The description, as practically all agree, fits very well the French Guigne or English Gean group of cherries.
This is probably the Amber of the old English writers--an attractive, small Geanor Mazzard.
He then forced Artaxerxes, the Persian king, to swear a solemn oath that he would never again wage war against the Athenians, and forbade the Persian vessels ever to enter the Ægean Sea.
Not very far from Athens, out in the Ægean Sea, was the Island of Pa´ros.
The Athenian empire took its rise from Athenian enterprise, working in concert with a serious alarm and necessity on the part of all the Grecian cities in or round the Ægean sea.
The great stress of the war had now been transferred to Ionia and the Asiatic side of the Ægean sea.
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