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
He deprived her of her hold upon the Thermaic Gulf, conquered Pydna and Potidæa, and conciliated Olynthus.
From Ancient States and Empires by John Lord
A few months later, Olynthus and the thirty-two towns of the confederacy were swept from the earth.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various
Athens, therefore, listened neither to Amphipolis nor to Olynthus, which had also made overtures to her.
From The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 1 by Arthur Wallace Pickard
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