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
Lastly, he had begun to show designs on the great Confederacy of Olynthus, the more warlike Miletus of the North.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various
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
He espoused the cause of Philip in the war against Olynthus, and was thus brought into bitter and life-long enmity with Demosthenes, whom he at first supported.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various
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