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
This sentence shows that Olynthus itself had not yet been attacked.
From The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2 by Arthur Wallace Pickard
Such are the First Philippic and the three orations for Olynthus.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various
And at this time Sparta was at war with Olynthus, a city far to the north.
From Historic Tales, vol 10 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris
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