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Olynthus

American  
[oh-lin-thuhs] / oʊˈlɪn θəs /

noun

  1. an ancient city in NE Greece, on the Chalcidice Peninsula.


Olynthus British  
/ əʊˈlɪnθəs /

noun

  1. an ancient city in N Greece: the centre of Chalcidice

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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 Lord, John

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

This sentence shows that Olynthus itself had not yet been attacked.

From The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2 by Pickard, Arthur Wallace

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