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A Lemnian deed is the cruel slaughter of someone as revenge. There are two possible origins for this term: the epic of Jason and the Argonauts, where Pelasgian women killed their men, and that of Herodotus narrative where the Pelasgians killed captive mothers and children.
As is usual in other nationalistic epics as well, other people and tribes are deemed to have barbaric tendencies. Besides, Pelasgians of Lemnos spoke pre-Greek Lemnian, and were technologically inferior (as can be seen from the weapons found in burials), which further promoted their primitive nature.
A Lemniandeed is the cruel slaughter of someone as revenge. There are two possible origins for this term: the epic of Jason and the Argonauts, where Pelasgian...
murdered every man on the island. From this barbarous act, the expression Lemniandeeds became proverbial among the Hellenes. According to Apollonius of Rhodes'...
Herodotus, the story had given rise to the proverbial phrase "Lemnian crime" used to mean any cruel deed. Aeschylus probably dealt with it in his' lost tragedies...
called the Hephaistoi, "the Hephaestus-men", in Lemnos. One of the three Lemnian tribes also called themselves Hephaestion and claimed direct descent from...
neighboring country of Thrace and bedded with them. Dishonored, all the Lemnian women, except Hypsipyle, were instigated by the same goddess in conspiring...
Miscellaneous Sonnets 1827 When Philoctetes in the Lemnian isle 1827 "When Philoctetes in the Lemnian isle" Miscellaneous Sonnets 1827 While Anna's peers...
labor when she was dragging a sacrificial bull by the horns. Dryope, a Lemnian. Dryope, mother of the Oenotropae by Anius. Dryopia Graves, Robert, (1955)...
Heinemann, 1931. Online version at the Topos Text Project. Philostratus the Lemnian (Philostratus Major), Flavii Philostrati Opera. Vol 2. Carl Ludwig Kayser...
The Lives of the Sophists and Tzetzes. Eunapius and Synesius call him a Lemnian; Photius a Tyrian; his letters refer to him as an Athenian. His praenomen...
Heinemann, 1931. Online version at the Topos Text Project. Philostratus the Lemnian (Philostratus Major), Flavii Philostrati Opera. Vol 2. Carl Ludwig Kayser...
might be exposed in order to excite popular envy. When word of this brazen deed reached Servius, he hurried to the curia to confront Tarquin, who levelled...
Tolumnius intended the execution of the emissaries to involve the Fidenates in a deed that would make it impossible for them to repair the breach with Rome. Outraged...
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