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Mytilene Greece: see Mitilíni .

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Magazine article from: The Spectator; 9/5/1998; ; 587 words ; ...the possibility of capital punishment. Mytilene, a city-state on the island of Lesbos...the street knows best,' he says). Mytilene's revolt was deliberate, calculated...distinguish the guilty from the innocent within Mytilene will drive the innocent to the extremes...
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Magazine article from: Brookings Review; 6/22/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...decisions of ordinary people. As related by Thucydides in "The Debate on Mytilene," the Athenians demonstrated superior judgment in their deliberation about the fate of Mytilene, a city on the island of Lesbos that had broken ranks with Athens to...
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Newspaper article from: Portland Press Herald (Maine); 4/18/2007; ; 298 words ; ...programming, the society also supports the sister city relationship between Portland and Mytilene, Lesvos, Greece. In June, a delegation from Portland will visit Mytilene to present nearly $1,200 worth of donated books in English that express American...
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Newspaper article from: The Sunday Independent (South Africa); 10/26/2008; 700+ words ; ...for a death sentence against the entire male population of Mytilene (women and children, of course, were to be slaves) because...decision for ourselves" - succeeds in sparing the citizens of Mytilene (albeit for selfish reasons). But our only Diodotus after...
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