Olynthus
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David Moore Robinson started out as a professor of Greek, drifted from eyework to spadework, won lasting fame by uncovering the buried City of Olynthus.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Unlike most large Greek towns, which grew gradually and haphazardly, Alexandria had commissioned planners, Deinocrates of Rhodes and Crates of Olynthus, to push through designs for her architecture and waterworks, respectively.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
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A quotation, probably from the text of the treaty of alliance between Athens and Olynthus.
From The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2 by Pickard, Arthur Wallace
Glaucus and Ione, the Christian Olynthus, and the dark Arbaces seemed to haunt the place.
From Among the Brigands by De Mille, James
Likewise Lasthenes betrayed the city of Olynthus to Philip of Macedon.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
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