- The
Pygmies (‹See Tfd›Gr****: Πυγμαῖοι
Pygmaioi, from the
adjective πυγμαῖος, from the noun πυγμή pygmē "fist, boxing,
distance from
elbow to knuckles,"...
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instead called the
offspring of the
latter and Gaea (Earth). Steph**** of Byzantium, s.v.
Pygmaioi (Πυγμαῖοι) Hesiod,
Catalogue of
Women fr. 40A v t e...
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father of Cleues, a
descendant of Agamemnon. Steph**** of Byzantium, s.v.
Pygmaioi (Πυγμαῖοι) Apollodorus, 1.7.3 Apollodorus, 1.7.6-7 Strabo, 13.1.3 Apollodorus...
- and the
griffins has
remarkable similarities to Homer's
account of the
Pygmaioi warring with cranes.
Michael Rostovtzeff found a
rendering of the subject...
- Euripides,
Phoenissae 5 Apollodorus, 2.5.11 Steph**** of Byzantium, s.v.
Pygmaioi (Πυγμαῖοι) Hesiod,
Catalogue of
Women fr. 40A Aeschylus,
Suppliant Women...
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Pygmies Plight". Smithsonian. 39 (9): 70–77.
Retrieved 21
October 2013. "
Pygmaioi".
Retrieved 21
October 2013. Keller,
Mitch (6
August 2006). "The Scandal...
- ISBN 978-0-521-14591-6.
Eustathius of Thessalonica. "Eustath. ad Hom". Theoi.com/phylos/
Pygmaioi. p. 372. Anthon,
Charles (1888). A
classical Dictionary, Vol. II. p. 1146...
- (Glaucidium siju) The word "pygmy" has its
roots in the Gr**** word "πυγμαῖος" (
pygmaioi),
which means "of the fist,"
suggesting the
small stature of the object...
