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
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
In Olynthus it was only safe to take Philip's side when the people of Olynthus as a whole had shared Philip's favours, and was enjoying the possession of Poteidaea.
From The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2 by Arthur Wallace Pickard
Probably he had been badly supplied with funds, and instead of helping Olynthus, resorted to acts of piracy to satisfy his men.
From The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 1 by Arthur Wallace Pickard
Kallisthenes of Olynthus, a near relative of Aristotle; born in 360, and educated by the philosopher as fellow-pupil with Alexander, afterwards the Great.
From On the Sublime by H. L. (Herbert Lord) Havell
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