- name to the island. This was a site
where criminals were
thrown (hence "
Leucadian trial") in
order to
judge their guilt or
innocence from
their injury at...
-
around 570 BC.
According to legend, she
killed herself by
leaping from the
Leucadian cliffs due to her
unrequited love for the
ferryman Phaon.
Sappho was a...
- of Apollo. The apse
depicts a
scene of the poet
Sappho leaping off the
Leucadian cliffs,
clutching her lyre to her breast,
while Apollo stands beneath...
- "The
Phrygian tribes: the Berecyntes, Cerbesii, Peloponnesians, Dorians,
Leucadians, LAcedemonians, Armenians".
Ancient Scholars about the
Turks and the Turkic...
- have been the
original inhabitants and
called their island Scheria).
Leucadians -
Descendants of a
Corinthian colony. They
lived in
Leucas (Lefkada) Island...
-
Chalcidians 400
Fifth coil
Styrians 300?
Eleans -
Potideaeans 300
Fourth coil
Leucadians 400?
Anactorians 400?
Cythnians -
Siphnians -
Third coil
Ambraciots 500...
- and most of his
forces were cut off by a
numerically superior force of
Leucadians and some
coast guards, and were killed. Thucydides,
History of the Peloponnesian...
- Pontus, next to
which he
places the Oretic, and then the Aeneatian, the
Leucadian, the Ambraciotic, and the Peparethian, to
which last he
gives the preference...
- loss,
according to Justin. By
another account Olympias had
poisoned a
Leucadian damsel named Tigris, to whom her son
Pyrrhus was attached, and was herself...
- son of Aristophanes.
Photius claims that
Nicostratus leaped from the
Leucadian Rock due to an
unrequited love for a
woman named Tettigidaea (Ancient...
