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Aegina
Aegina , in Greek mythology, river nymph, daughter of the river god Asopus. She was abducted by Zeus to the island Oenone, where she bore him a son, Aeacus . Aeacus later renamed the island in her honor. ... Read more
Aegina
Aegina or Aíyina , island (1991 pop. 12,430), 32 sq mi (83 sq km), off SE Greece, in the Saronic Gulf (or Gulf of Aegina), near Athens. Sponge fishing and farming (figs, almonds, grapes, olives, and pistachios) are the most important occupations. Tourism is also important. The chief town ... Read more
Aegina
Aegina c.500-480 BC, marble sculptures from the temple of Aphaia discovered in 1811 and erroneously restored by Thorvaldsen . They originally decorated the pediments of the temple and represent scenes from the Trojan War. They are now in the Glyptothek at Munich. ... Read more
Britomartis
Britomartis , in ancient religion and mythology, Cretan goddess, sometimes identified with Artemis. To escape the amorous pursuit of Minos, she jumped into the sea, but fishermen caught her in their nets and transported her to Aegina, where she was worshiped as Aphaea. According to another legend, s... Read more
Salamis
Salamis island, E Greece, in the Saronic Gulf, W of Athens. It early belonged to Aegina but was later under Athenian control, except for a brief period after it was occupied (c.600 BC) by Megara. In the Persian Wars the allied Greek fleet, led by Themistocles , decisively defeated (480 BC) the... Read more
Peleus
Peleus , in Greek mythology, son of Aeacus and the father of Achilles by Thetis. He and his brother Telamon killed their half-brother Phocus and were exiled from Aegina. After taking part in the Calydonian hunt, Peleus went to Iolcus, where he killed King Acastus and Acastus' wife because they h... Read more
Telamon
Telamon , in Greek mythology, son of Aeacus and father of Ajax. He and Peleus killed their half-brother Phocus and were banished from Aegina. Telamon fled to Salamis, where he became king. For his aid to Hercules against Laomedon, Hercules rewarded him with Laomedon's daughter, Hesione, who bore him... Read more
Charles Robert Cockerell
Charles Robert Cockerell , 1788-1863, English architect, archaeologist, and writer. While excavating at Bassae, Aegina, and other sites in Italy, Greece, and Asia Minor, he studied the remains of ancient architecture and designed restorations for the temple of Zeus at Agrigento, Sicily. In 1819 he w... Read more

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Aegina
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Aegina or Aíyina , island (1991 pop...Greece, in the Saronic Gulf (or Gulf of Aegina), near Athens. Sponge fishing and farming...Tourism is also important. The chief town is Aegina on the northwest shore. Points of interest...
Paul of Aegina
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Paul of Aegina , 7th cent.?, Greek physician. His only extant work is a medical history in seven books; it was translated into English...
Gulf of Aegina
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Gulf of Aegina see Saronic Gulf , Greece.
Pindar
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...made of Pindar's relation with the island of Aegina. Eleven of his odes were written for Aeginetan...constitutes nearly one-fourth of his total output. Aegina (whose founding nymph, Aegina, was reputed to be a sister of Thebe) was subjected...
Saronic Gulf
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...cuts across the isthmus. Athens, Piraiévs, Elevsís, and Mégara are on or near the gulf, which also contains many islands, notably Aegina and Salamís. It is also known as the Gulf of Aegina.
Cleomenes I
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...when the Persians threatened to invade Greece in 491, Sparta allied itself with Athens, and Cleomenes went to Sparta's ally Aegina to arrest the leaders of a government which had submitted to Persia. He was rebuffed on the grounds that both Spartan kings...
Nikos Kazantzakis
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...to the newspaper organizations which provided him with travel funds. In 1927 he settled for a short while on the island of Aegina to arrange selections from his travelogs into volumes that were later to appear as Travels — Spain, Italy, and so...
Telamon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Greek mythology, son of Aeacus and father of Ajax. He and Peleus killed their half-brother Phocus and were banished from Aegina. Telamon fled to Salamis, where he became king. For his aid to Hercules against Laomedon, Hercules rewarded him with Laomedon...
Charles Robert Cockerell
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Charles Robert Cockerell , 1788-1863, English architect, archaeologist, and writer. While excavating at Bassae, Aegina, and other sites in Italy, Greece, and Asia Minor, he studied the remains of ancient architecture and designed restorations...
Britomartis
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...escape the amorous pursuit of Minos, she jumped into the sea, but fishermen caught her in their nets and transported her to Aegina, where she was worshiped as Aphaea. According to another legend, she vanished in a grove sacred to Artemis and was deified...

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Paul of Aegina
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography PAUL OF AEGINA ( b. Aegina; fl. Alexandria, A.D.640) medicine. The details of Paul of Aegina ’ s life are meager. He was born on the island of Aegina in the Saronic Gulf and studied and practiced medicine at Alexandria, where...
Cockerell, Charles Robert
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...1786–1841), and together they discovered the Aegina marbles (now in Munich) in 1811, studied the temple of Apollo...architecture (1859); The Temples of Jupiter Panhellenius at Aegina and of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae (1860); and the diary of...
Guinter, Joannes
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...part of Galen ’ s writings and all those of Paul of Aegina. The considerable bulk of Guinter ’ s translations...Greek medicine. He also translated the writings of Paul of Aegina, Opus de re medica (Paris, 1532); Caelius Aurelianus...
Garnier, Jean-Louis-Charles
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...architecture, although he investigated the Temple of Aphaia at Aegina, largely from the point of view of its colouring in Antiquity...1878–81). His reconstruction of the temple at Aegina (complete with polychrome decorations) was published in Le...
Daléchamps, Jacques (or Jacobus Dale Champius)
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...xE7; oise (1570), based largely on Book VI of Paul of Aegina ’ s De re Medica but also incorporating material from...of Pliny the Elder, the two Senecas, Dioscorides, Paul of Aegina, and Raymond Chalmel de Viviers. In addition, he translated...
Greek architecture
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...which was lavishly embellished with sculpture); the first Temple of Hera at Paestum ( c. 550 bc), the Temple of Aphaia at Aegina ( c. 500–495 BC), and the huge Temple of Zeus Olympios at Acragas (Agrigentum), Sicily ( c. 510–...
Haller, Karl Christoph Joachim, Freiherr von Hallerstein
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...discover the entasis on Greek columns. With Foster , Jakob Linckh (1786–1841), and Cockerell he discovered the Aegina marbles (1811), and helped to survey the temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae. He submitted a design for the Walhalla...
Thorvaldsen, Bertel
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art ...familiarity with Greek sculpture from the restorations he made to the recently excavated sculptures from the temple of Aphaia in Aegina, which in 1816 passed through Rome on their way to Munich (they are now in the Glyptothek there). Compared with Canova he...
Plato
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...appear as characters, in his dialogues. He himself was the son of Ariston 2 and Perictione, and was born either at Athens or Aegina, where his father may have gone as a settler when the Athenians occupied the island. Nothing reliable is known of his father...
Doric Order
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...by some to be the Athenian Parthenon (447–438 BC), although the type is established by the temple of Aphaia at Aegina ( c. 495 bc). In the Roman version of Doric, there may be a rudimentary base , but the shaft is generally more slenderly...

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For those who care about skoupidia. (Greece Survey)(Aegina Island)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 5/22/1993; 700+ words ; ...prettiness of some of the islands, go to Aegina. This is a "working island", a place...At the end of the second world war, Aegina, like most of Greece, was on the brink...Dover is from Calais, taking a car to Aegina meant winching it into and out of a caique...
Spartacus: Variation of Aegina; Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia; The Entrance of Harmodius-Adagio of Aegina and Harmodius; Dance of the Gaditanae-The Rebels Approach. Gayaneh: Lezghinka; Lullaby; Storm; Sabre Dance; Mountaineers; Invention/The Seasons: Autumn1
Magazine article from: Fanfare; 1/1/2008; ; 689 words ; ...KHACHATURIAN Spartacus: Variation of Aegina; Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia; The Entrance of Harmodius-Adagio of Aegina and Harmodius; Dance of the Gaditanae...start in Spartacus ("Variation of Aegina") before reveling in the "Adagio...
AEGINA ARCHETYPE.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review; 8/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...on, and from the site's marvellous views. The island of Aegina in the Saronic Gulf is south of Athens and a short ferry ride...Situated on the north coast, off the coastal road west from Aegina harbour, the house spreads itself over the highest point of...
City: Greek dawning of the age of Aquarius Doug Morrison witnesses the inauguration of a service that could end water shortages and be a big winner for a small British company
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 6/15/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...little tug approached the Greek island of Aegina with an enormous plastic bag in tow...patch of scrubland on the north side of Aegina, otherwise used only to ship out aggregates...commodity pumped to a tank high in the Aegina hills. Aegina, like all the Greek islands...
Guilt and pride and the loot of great empires.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 1/10/2007; 700+ words ; ...On December 30 I visited the island of Aegina. The weather, I hate to tell you, was...sunny, the Aegean a wine-dark blue, and Aegina glittered on the sea like a late Christmas present. Aegina was once the rival of Athens, and its...
The Complete Guide To THE GREEK ISLANDS
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 8/9/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...from Piraeus (even less by hydrofoil), Aegina is an ideal first-time island. The...You can sail to the diminutive capital, Aegina Town, which is colourful and pretty...reach it on one of the regular buses from Aegina Town to the resort of Agia Marina, the...
Fatima.(De Leon's Den)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin; 11/7/2007; 700+ words ; ...cruise of Greece -- Poros, Hydra and Aegina. While on board, Giorgis of the Hydraiki...at 3:00PM on the way to the island of Aegina. They invited us to join the celebration...know that as of their last count, the Aegina inhabitants were surprised to know that...
'Spartacus' conquers ballet; An epic Russian classic is taking America by storm
Newspaper article from: Sunday News Lancaster, PA; 3/31/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...with the virtuous Phrygia, and Crassus with Aegina, his concubine. In this libretto, Aegina rises to the position of an evil accomplice...and the mass seduction of Spartacus' army by Aegina and her corps of courtesans. "Spartacus...
Review Muscular Spartacus grabs all the glory
Newspaper article from: Evening News - Scotland; 11/5/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...licentious revelry with his concubine Aegina, his moves are still perfectly timed...of contrast, Anna Sivtzova, dancing Aegina, creates a character who is always in...totally calculated about her frenzy. Aegina's use of a Bacchanalian frenzy is brilliantly...
Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke. (Greek author)(Capitals: Athens)
Magazine article from: Europe; 4/1/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...surrounded by a pistachio orchard on the island of Aegina. It belonged to her grandparents, Greek...Athens "becomes more difficult to live in, Aegina is where the real work gets done," she says. Aegina is also where she knew Nikos Kazantzakis...