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- A tropaion (Gr****: τρόπαιον, Latin: tropaeum), from which the English word "trophy" is derived, was a monument erected to commemorate a victory over one's...
- which the figures are less readily identifiable, depicts the erection of a tropaion. In some interpretations of the scene, all the lower figures are by design...
- Adolf Furtwängler: Das Tropaion von Adamklissi und provinzialrömische Kunst. (München, Verlag der K. Akademie, 1903) Das Tropaion von Adamklissi und provinzialromische...
- in the Battle of Leuctra, a tropaion was set up on the battlefield by the Thebans to commemorate their victory. The tropaion was later replaced by a permanent...
- within the ****enic world, until the rise of Macedonia. The base of Theban Tropaion (Trophy) tower, erected at the battle site circa 371BC.38°15′53″N 23°10′26″E...
- traditional trophies. Originally the word trophy, derived from the Gr**** tropaion, referred to arms, standards, other property, or human captives and body...
- The restored surviving base of the Battle of Leuktra tropaion...
- battle, the Romans erected a trophy pole (or tropaeum, from the Gr**** tropaion, source of English "trophy") on which the vanquished foe's armour and weapons...
- in Swedish, with occasional exceptions, such as Dragunov (English) and Tropaion (partly in Afrikaans). Pär Hulkoff (Atomkraft, ex-Viperine) – vocals, guitar...
- form of the Latin tropaeum, itself borrowed from Ancient Gr**** τρόπαιον : trópaion "trophy". The Latin specific epithet majus means "larger" (the neuter form...