This is also the ancient Greek name of Megaris Naples a small island off Naples , site of the Castel dell Ovo . Infobox Regions Ancient Greece name Megaris name polytonic image Tesoro megara.jpg caption Pediment of the treasury of Megara , Museum of Olympia Location Regions of Ancient Greece Central Greece Central Greece Major cities Megara Dialects Doric Greek Doric Key periods image map Ancient Greek southern regions.png caption map Map showing Megaris in relation to other regions File Map of Attica and Megaris.jpg thumb left Map of ancient Megaris. Megaris or the Megarid lang el , was a small but populous Sovereign state state of ancient Greece , west of Attica and north of Corinthia , whose inhabitants were adventurous seafarers, credited with deceitful propensities. The capital, Megara , famous for white marble and fine clay , was the birthplace of Euclid . Mount Geraneia dominates the center of the region. The island of Salamis Island Salamis was originally under the control of Megara, before it was lost to Classical Athens Athens in the late 7th century BCE. Nuttall Category Ancient Megara Category Ancient Greek geography Ancient Greece stub bg ca Megaris el la Megaris uk ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Pagae Greek was an ancient Greece Greek harbour in Megaris , on the Gulf of Corinth . In 461 BC , Pagae was occupied by Athens because they wanted a naval base of operations on the Gulf of Corinth. With the peace treaty between Athens and Sparta , Pagae came under the influence of Megara . Since 193 BC Pagae has been an independent member of the Achaean League . Not until the time of the Turks the town was given up. When Pausanias geographer Pausanias visited Pagae, a remarkable bronze image of Artemis Soteira was shown to him. According to some sources of greek mythology Pagae had been the home town of Tereus . Remains of the city walls can be seen today near the modern village of Alepoch ri. References Smith, Philip J. The archaeology and epigraphy of Hellenistic and Roman Megaris, Greece . Oxford John and Erica Hedges Ltd, 2008. Coord missing Greece Category Ancient Greek cities Category Greek mythology Category Former populated places in Greece Category Geography of ancient Attica de Pagai el uk ... more details
Orphan date October 2008 In Greek mythology , Sceiron was a robber who haunted the frontier between Attica and Megaris . He robbed travellers and kicked them into the sea where they were eaten by a tortoise that lived there. He was killed by Theseus . References cite book title The Library of Greek Mythology last Apollodorus first coauthors Robin Hard year 1998 publisher Oxford University Press location isbn 9780872910720 page pages url accessdate Category Greek mythology Greek myth stub bg ca Escir cs Skeir n de Skiron fr Sciron nl Sciron ja pl Skiron syn Pelopsa ru fi Skiron mytologia uk ... more details
Megara is an ancient Greek city in the region of Megaris in west Attica. Megara may also refer to Megara Hyblaea , an ancient Greek colony in Sicily, situated near Augusta Megara mythology , a mythological Greek princess Megara Disney character , a fictional character from the 1997 Disney animated film, Hercules Megara Gulf , in the northern part of the Saronic Gulf of the Aegean Sea See also Megar Mega disambiguation Megaera disambiguation disambig br Megara de Megara Begriffskl rung el es Megara desambiguaci n fr M gare homonymie it Megara nl Megara ja pl Megara pt M gara desambigua o ru uk ... more details
Refimprove date October 2010 August 15 Eastern Orthodox liturgics Aug. 15 Eastern Orthodox Church calendar August 17 Eastern Orthodox liturgics Aug. 17 Fixed commemorations All fixed commemorations below are observed on August 29 by Old Style and New Style dates Old calendarists Feasts Afterfeast of the Dormition Translation of the Image not made by hands of Jesus Christ from Edessa, Mesopotamia Edessa to Constantinople 944 Saints Martyr Diomedes of Tarsus in Cilicia , physician 298 Saint Cherimon Chaeremon of Egypt 4th century Saint Anthony the Stylite , of Martqopi , Georgia country Georgia 6th century Saint Osogovo Monastery Joachim of Osogov , Bulgaria n monk 12th century Saint Eustathius II, archbishop of Serbia 1309 Saint Romanus the Sinaite, of Djunisa , Serbia 14th century Monk martyr Christopher of Guria , Georgia country Georgia , at Damascus 15th century Saint Gerasimus of Cephalonia Gerasimus the New Ascetic of Cephalonia , on Mount Athos 1579 Martyr Nicodemus of Meteora 1551 Saint Raphael of Banat in Serbia ca. 1590 33 martyrs of Palestine Martyr Alcibiades Saint Nilus, brother of Emperor Theodore Laskaris Saint Timothy of Chalcedon , archbishop and founderof the monastery of Pendeli 1590 New Martyr Stamatius of Demetrias , near Volos, at Constantinople 1680 Great martyr Apostolos of St. Laurence , killed in Constantinople 1686 New Martyrs King Constantin Br ncoveanu of Wallachia and his four sons Constantine, Stephen, Radu, and Matthew, and his counsellor Ioannicius 1714 Russia n New Martyrs Vladimir, priest , and his brother Boris 1931 Other commemorations Translation of the relic s 1798 of the martyrs Seraphim, Dorotheus, James, Demetrius, Basil, and Sarantis, of Megaris Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of Saint Theodore Feodorovskaya Repose of Blessed Matrona Popova , disciple of Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk 1851 References http www.pomog.org index.html?http www.pomog.org saintlist.shtml Protection of the Mother of God Church, List of Saints http days.pra ... more details
Unreferenced date July 2007 File Alkionides.JPG right thumb 300px The Alkyonides Gulf Greek Kolpos Alykonidon or Alkionidon , also Alkionides Gulf is a strait that connects with the Gulf of Corinth to the west. The strait is approximately 20 to 25 km long and 20 km wide. It stretches from Aigosthena to Cape Trachilos from east to west and from Mikra Strava to Cape Trachilos from north to south. There are three prefectures that are bounding this gulf, Corinthia to the south, Attica to the east and Viotia to the north. Except for the Megaris Plain to the southeast, mountains surround the gulf. These mountains include the Geraneia to the south, Pateras and Cithaeron or Kitheronas to the east and Karampoli to the north. Beaches including Mikra Strava, Strava, Mavrolimni, Kato Aleopchori, Aigosthena, Alyki and Paralia Korinis lies within the gulf. There are no ferry routes in this strait. The Alkyonides Islands , which are also known as Kala Nisia Good Island , lie in the western end. These islands include Daskalio, Prasonisi and Zoodochos Pigi. More islands, including Fonias and Makronissos lie to the extreme north. Kouveli, in the Domvrenas Bay, also lies in the north. Bays by the gulf Chinou Bay , south Psatha Bay , southeast Aigosthena Bay , east Livadostros Bay , northeast Domvrenas Bay , northwest Places by the gulf South Mikra Strava Strava Southeast Mavrolimni, Athens Mavrolimni Aigeirouses Kato Alepochori East Aigosthena Northeast Agios Vasileios Viotia , Greece Agios Vasileios North Kalamaki Viotia , Greece Kalamari Alyki Northwest Paralia Korinis coord missing Greece Category Attica Category Boeotia Category Gulfs of Greece Category Gulfs of the Ionian Sea el nn Alkyon desbukta ... more details
Susarion , an Archaic Greece Archaic Greek comic poet , was a native of Tripodiscus in Megaris see Megara and is considered one of the originators of metrical comedy ref Edmonds, J.M. John Maxwell , The Fragments of Attic Comedy , Leiden E. J. Brill, 1957 v.I Old Comedy 1957 v.II Middle Comedy 1959. ref and, by others, he was considered the founder of Attic Comedy. ref group nb The claim from the Megarian side that comedy developed there in the time of their democracy seems to be asserting that comedy in the iambic tradition was a Megarian invention. That claim is matched by, and possibly responsible for, the setting up of a founder of Attic comedy called Susarion, from Icaria like Thespis , the founder of tragedy , and of a date, duly recorded in the third centurt Parian chronicle, for the first comic performance the date fell somewhere between 581 and 560 B.C. the part of the inscription which gave it is now lost nor are we astounded to find that Susarion was a Megarian anyway. What core of truth there is in all this will probably be never known . emdash E.W.Handley, Comedy in P. E. Easterling Easterling, P.E. , Series Editor , Bernard M.W. Knox Editor , Cambridge History of Classical Literature , v.I, Greek Literature, 1985. ISBN 0 521 21042 9, cf. Chapter 12, Comedy, p.366 367 ref Nothing of his work however survives except one iambic fragment see below and this is not from a comedy but instead seems to belong within the Iambus genre Iambus tradition. ref Douglas E. Gerber, Greek iambic Poetry , Loeb Classical Library 1999 , page 9 ref About 580 BC he transplanted the Megarian comedy if the rude extempore jests and buffoonery deserve the name into the Attica Attic deme of Icaria , the cradle also of Greek tragedy and the oldest seat of the worship of Dionysus . According to the Parian Chronicle , there appears to have been a competition on this occasion, in which the prize was a basket of ficus fig s and an amphora of wine . Susarion s improvements in his native ... more details
suburban railway . Megara lies in the Megaris plain. It has the largest land area of any municipality ... J. The archaeology and epigraphy of Hellenistic and Roman Megaris, Greece . Oxford John and Erica ... more details
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In Greek mythology , Aegialeus also Aegealeus, Egialeus is a name attributed several individuals. Aegialeus was the elder son of Adrastus , a king of Argos , and either Amphithea or Demonassa . ref Tripp, Edward. Crowell s Handbook of Classical Mythology . New York Thomas Crowell Press, 1993 p. 18 . ref Aegialeus was identified as one of the Epigoni , who avenged their fathers disastrous attack on the city of Thebes Greece Thebes by retaking the city, by both Pausanias geographer Pausanias and Hellanikos . While his father was the only one of the Seven Against Thebes who did not die in the battle, Aegialeus was the only one of the leaders of the Epigoni who was killed while they retook the city. Laodamas , the son of Eteocles , killed him at Glisas, and he was buried at Pagae in Megaris . ref Pausanias. Description of Greece , 1.44.4. ref Adrastus died of grief after his son s death, and Diomedes , Adrastus grandson by his daughter Deipyle , succeeded him. Aegialeus son was Cyanippus , who took the throne following the exile of Diomedes. Aegialeus was one of the sons of the river god Inachus . His mother was the Oceanid Melia nymph Melia , and his brother was Phoroneus . In a variant myth, he was called the son of Phoroneus by the goddess Peitho . He was the founder of Sicyon and was usually said to have died childless. In other stories he was the father of Europs, in a variant Leucippus son of Thurimachus genealogy that makes him the ancestor of Apis Greek mythology Apis both of these figures were usually called the sons of Phoroneus . Aegialeus was the first inhabitant of Sicyon , and ruled over the district of the Peloponnese called Aegialus after him. He also founded the city of Aegialea. ref Apollodorus. The Library , http www.theoi.com Text Apollodorus2.html 2.1.1 Having now gone through the family of Deucalion, we have next to speak of that of Inachus. Ocean and Tethys had a son Inachus, after whom a river in Argos is called Inachus. He and Melia, daughter of ... more details
Infobox Greek Dimos name Nea Peramos name local image map Dimos Neas Peramou.png map caption Location within the regional unit periph Attica region Attica periphunit West Attica municipality Megara pop municunit 7480 population as of 2001 area municunit 7.900 elevation 2 lat deg 38 lat min 0 lon deg 23 lon min 25 postal code 190 06 area code 22960 licence Z mayor website http www.nea peramos.gr www.nea peramos.gr image skyline caption skyline city flag city seal districts party since elevation min elevation max Nea Peramos lang el , before the 1990s Megalo Pefko lang el is a suburb and a former municipality in West Attica , Greece . Since the 2011 local government reform, it is part of the municipality Megara , of which it is a municipal unit. ref name Kallikratis http www.kedke.gr uploads2010 FEKB129211082010 kallikratis.pdf Kallikratis law Greece Ministry of Interior el icon ref Geography Nea Peramos is situated in the eastern portion of the Megaris plain, in the northwestern part of the agglomeration of Athens . Mountains are situated to the north, and the Saronic Gulf to the south. Nea Peramos offers a panorama of the island of Salamis Island Salamis . Greek National Road 8A E94 Athens Corinth Patras and the commuter rail Proastiakos pass through Nea Peramos. The beaches of Nea Peramos are popular with tourists. It is located about 8 km E of Megara , about 35 km W of Athens, about 50 km east of Corinth and S of Thiva . The area around Nea Peramos is made up of residential and urban areas. There are farmlands to the west. Bushes, grasslands, deforested areas cover the north and east. Suburban housing arrived in the 1970s and continued in the 1990s. Its main suburbs are Neraki and Loutropyrgos to the east and Aghios Panteleimon and Vlyhada to the north northeast taking the fishing harbour as the central point . Landmark buildings include the two tall 12 storied and 10 storied blocks of flats, the Church of St. Ge ... more details
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