-
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...
-
Lefkada (Gr****: Λευκάδα, Lefkáda, [lefˈkaða]), also
known as
Lefkas or
Leukas (Ancient Gr**** and Katharevousa: Λευκάς, Leukás,
modern pronunciation Lefkás)...
- 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...
- 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...
- "The
Phrygian tribes: the Berecyntes, Cerbesii, Peloponnesians, Dorians,
Leucadians, LAcedemonians, Armenians".
Ancient Scholars about the
Turks and the Turkic...
-
November to
advise and on the way, "in a
landlocked bay
close to the
Leucadian Rock (where
Sappho is
supposed to have
drowned herself)", his ship escaped...
-
Chalcidians 400
Fifth coil
Styrians 300?
Eleans -
Potideaeans 300
Fourth coil
Leucadians 400?
Anactorians 400?
Cythnians -
Siphnians -
Third coil
Ambraciots 500...
- the
Indians he
posted the Sacae,
fronting the Ampraciots, Anactorians,
Leucadians, Paleans, and Aeginetans; next to the Sacae, and over
against the Athenians...
- have been the
original inhabitants and
called their island Scheria).
Leucadians -
Descendants of a
Corinthian colony. They
lived in
Leucas (Lefkada) Island...
