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| | Polycrates - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Polycrates followed the advice and threw a jewel-encrusted ring into the sea; however, a few days later, a fisherman caught a large fish that he wished to share with the tryant. | | | Polycrates told Amasis of his good fortune, and Amasis immediately broke off their alliance, believing that such a lucky man would eventually come to a disastrous end. | | | Sardis, Oroetes, planned to kill Polycrates, either because he had been unable to add Samos to Persia's territory, or because Polycrates had supposedly snubbed a Persian ambassador. |
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| | Polycrates of Samos |
| | There was some turmoil on Samos, and in 540, three brethren, Polycrates, Pantagnostus, and Syloson, executed a coup d' état. | | | So Polycrates selected those of the citizens whom he most suspected of desiring to rise against him, and sent them away in 40 warships, charging Cambyses not to send them back. | | | After the fall of Egypt in 525, he had no financial support any more. |
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| | This island was, somewhere about the year 530 B.C., seized by a political adventurer named Polycrates. | | | That there would be an ill end to the career of Polycrates he now felt sure; and, not wishing to be involved in it himself, he sent a herald to Samos and informed his late friend and ally that the alliance between them was at an end. | | | But this we do know that the friendship between Amasis and Polyorates was broken, and that Polycrates offered to help Cambyses in his invasion, and sent forty ships to the Nile for this purpose. |
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| | My Chicago vacation 2004 |
| | Salvator Rosa, Italian, 1615-1673 The Crucifixion of Polycrates (1663/65) | | | Salvator Rosa, Italian, 1615-1673 Polycrates Receiving the Fish (1663/65) |
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| | Polycrates, Greece, ancient history |
| | Polycrates then took off his most valuable ring and threw it in the sea. | | | Around him he gathered learned scholars, but Pythagoras disagreed with his rule and left the island. | | | With his fleet, he conquered several cities on the coast of Asia Minor, as well as many islands in the Aegean Sea. |
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| | GNTO-Greek Islands-Samos-Historic Facts |
| | Other myths talk about Polycrates the Tyran, who was said to be incredibly lucky. | | | According to myth, Polycrates, a priceless ring threw into the sea to calm the gods, who were upset with his luck. | | | The fish he had for dinner, had the ring in its stomach. |
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| | Polycrates |
| | Polycrates supplied him with those Samiots whom he suspected of being his enemies. | | | Once there, however, he was arrested on the orders of Oroetes and crucified on Mount Mycale, opposite Pythagoreio. | | | Later, Herodotus tells us, when Polycrates went on campaigns he had at his command ‘a vast crowd and innumerable ships’. |
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| | Summary of and commentary on Herodotus' Histories, book 3 |
| | Nonetheless, Polycrates is able to hold his position against a joint attack by the Spartans and the Corinthians. | | | Promising money, he lures the tyrant of Samos to the continent, where the Samian leader, who had been the happiest of all human beings, is crucified. | | | Polycrates' navy was paid for by the pharaoh, who must have seen Polycrates as a useful ally in the struggle against Persia. |
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| | The Internet Classics Archive The History of Herodotus by Herodotus |
| | There Polycrates went out against them with his fleet, and a battle was fought and gained by the exiles; after which they disembarked upon the island and engaged the land forces of Polycrates, but were defeated, and so sailed off to Lacedaemon. | | | The Samians who had fought against Polycrates, when they knew that the Lacedaemonians were about to forsake them, left Samos themselves, and sailed to Siphnos. | | | Now some accounts say that these Samians did not reach Egypt; for that when they were off Carpathus, they took counsel together and resolved to sail no further. |
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| | A Commentary on Darius |
| | He makes out Amasis's concern is simply that he will get caught up in the great catastrophe which must happen to Polycrates due to his luck and eventual downfall. | | | The two Spartan kings, Anaxanebidas and Ariston agree and attack Polycrates by launching a fleet against him. | | | However it is a plot to kill him. |
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| | Amazon.ca: Books: The Crossword Murder |
| | Since the police refuse to listen to Sara, she hires private investigator Rosco Polycrates, who tries to dissuade her from wasting her money since the medical examiner already ruled as to cause of death. | | | However, Rosco accepts the case and begins to make inquiries into Thompson's life. | | | Private investigator Rosco Polycrates is hired by the mother of a murder victim (crossword editor for a local newspaper) to investigate the death, which is first ruled natural causes. |
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| | POLYCRATES - LoveToKnow Article on POLYCRATES |
| | This squadron never reached Egypt, for the crews, composed as they were of Poly-crates' political enemies, suspecting that Cambyses was under agreement to slay them, put back to Samos and attacked their master. | | | He maintained his ascendancy until about 515, when Oroetes, the Persian governor of Lydia, who had been reproached for his failure to reduce Samos by force, lured him to the mainland by false promises of gain and put him to death by crucifixion. | | | Beside the political and commercial pre-eminence which he conferred upon Samos, Polycrates adorned the city with public works on a large scalean aqueduct, a mole and a temple of Hera (see SAMOS; AQUEDUCTS). |
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| | Amazon.com: Books: The Crossword Connection (Crossword Mysteries) |
| | Crossword creator Belle Graham is happily anticipating her upcoming nuptials to private investigator Rosco Polycrates when the murder of a homeless man in an alley in Newcastle, Mass., threatens to derail those plans. | | | Is the murder part of a plot designed to shut down a homeless shelter so that developers can take over the property? | | | Before their marriage, a homeless man is found dead with a crossword puzzle under him. |
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| | Pythagoras |
| | Polycrates had been killed in about 522 BC and Cambyses died in the summer of 522 BC, either by committing suicide or as the result of an accident. | | | Polycrates abandoned his alliance with Egypt and sent 40 ships to join the Persian fleet against the Egyptians. | | | This conflicts with the accounts of Porphyry and Diogenes Laertius who state that Polycrates was still in control of Samos when Pythagoras returned there. |
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| | 7. THE FELICITY OF POLYCRATES. |
| | Another version of the story states that he broke off with the Samian tyrant because the tyrant continued treating Samians and passers - by badly despite Amasis' advice. | | | Polycrates decided to follow his friend's advice and one afternoon he and many of his friends got on a ship and opened up in the sea. | | | Polycrates was not only extremely intelligent and efficient governor but also a very lucky man. His felicity was endless. |
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| | LewRockwell.com Blog: Polycrates has the answer For Martha |
| | LewRockwell.com Blog: Polycrates has the answer For Martha | | | Polycrates “manufactured” his, throwing his ring into the sea and going ito mourning — only to have a fisherman find it in the belly of a fish. | | | He ended badly, however, and wound up being crucified — but not by Christians, just some pagan enemies (so don’t wait for the movie). |
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| | AllRefer.com - Polycrates (Ancient History, Greece, Biography) - Encyclopedia |
| | He sent (c.525) 40 ships manned by his main political opponents from Samos to aid the Persian king Cambyses against the Egyptians, but the crews revolted and, with Spartan aid, unsuccessfully warred against Polycrates. | | | Oroetes, Persian satrap of Sardes, lured him to the mainland and crucified him. | | | AllRefer.com - Polycrates (Ancient History, Greece, Biography) - Encyclopedia |
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| | Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. VIII |
| | But to the Jews the Apostles became "as Jews" in all things tolerable, so long as the Temple stood, and while the bishops of Jerusalem were labouring to identify the Paschal Lamb with their Passover. | | | If, as I suppose, the appearance of our Lord to St. John on "the Lord's day" was on the Paschal Sunday, it may at first seem surprising that this Apostle can be claimed by Polycrates in behalf of the Eastern custom to keep Easter, with the Jews, on the fourteenth day of the moon. | | | Moreover I also, Polycrates, who am the least of you all, in accordance with the tradition of my relatives, some of whom I have succeeded-seven of my relatives were bishops, and I am the eighth, and my relatives always observed the day when the people put away |
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| | We have already told how Polycrates was treacherously seized and murdered by the Persian satrap Oroetes. | | | Democedes had accompanied him to the court of the traitor, and was, with the other attendants of Polycrates, seized and left to languish in neglect and imprisonment. | | | The next year he spent at Athens, whose people had offered him one and two-thirds talents. |
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| | THE FOUR GOSPELS-Streeter: Ch15 |
| | He doubtless found there, besides the statement that the Jews put John and James to death, references to the great teacher John who wrote "the Memoirs" and died in Ephesus. | | | Ninety years had elapsed between the death of this John and the letter of Polycrates, and for more than threescore of these the claim of Asia to inherit apostolic custom had been at stake. | | | This stage had certainly been reached in Asia in the time of Polycrates, probably several years earlier. |
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| | Translate the Roman numerals at the top of the page into Arabic numerals (I = 1; II = 2). | | | Polycrates, speaking in the voice of Anytus) as in Xenophon. | | | Part 1: Make a sequential outline of Xenophon, Memorabilia 1.2.9-61 (the whole section in answer to the "accuser," who, we assume, is Polycrates). |
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| | Historical Research Puzzles and Scientific Anomalies |
| | See also the Mola Salsa from pre Roman times. | | | Related NT studies Who wrote the Fourth Gospel? | | | Polycrates Pope Victor the first Bishops of Jerusalem the zealots the debate over origins of the Didache and The Eucharist rite. |
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| | Salvator Rosa / Polycrates Receiving the Fish / 1663/65 |
| | Salvator Rosa / Polycrates Receiving the Fish / 1663/65 | | | This image is one of over 118,000 from The Art Museum Image Consortium Library (The AMICO Library™), a growing online collection of high-quality, digital art images from 39 museums around the world. | | | Media Metadata Rights: Copyright The Art Institute of Chicago, 2000 |
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| | Books & Literature : Anatomy of a Crossword (25% discount) |
| | Fiction Fiction - Mystery/ Detective Graham, Belle Massachusetts Mystery and Detective - Series Mystery and Detective - Women Sleuths Mystery/Suspense Polycrates, Rosco Private investigators | | | The man supposed to play her husband, P.I. Roscoe Polycrates, is in an automobile accident; one of the actresses is injured by something falling on her; and Chick is murdered with his girlfriend arrested for the crime. | | | Store map 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 |
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| | ANACREON - LoveToKnow Article on ANACREON |
| | Like his fellow-lyrist, Horace, who was one of his great admirers, and in many respects of a kindred spirit, Anacreon seems to have been made for the society of courts. | | | From Thrace he removed to the court of Polycrates of Samos, one of the best of those old " tyrants," who by no means deserved the name in its worst sense. | | | Anacreon seems to have taken part in the fighting, in which, on his own admission, he did not distinguish himself, but, like Alcaeus and Horace, threw away his shield and fled. |
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| | Polycrates of Ephesus (Wace information) |
| | Polycrates himself had followed the traditions of his kindred, seven of whom had been bishops before him, and had been confirmed in his view by his own study of the whole Scripture and by conference with brethren from all the world. | | | Although his letter bore no signature but his own, he claims that it had received the assent of a great number of bishops (Eus. | | | He appeals to the authority of the great luminaries which the Asian church could boast, and whose bodies lay among them, Philip, one of the twelve apostles, and his three daughters, John, who lay on our Lord's breast, a priest who wore the |
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| | 3. THE MOST IMPORTANT PEACE WORKS OF POLYCRATES. |
| | This was, after all, his old dream and his great ambition. | | | Although now ruined, these have been admired by all people, Greeks and foreigners until now. | | | Polycrates did a lot of important things in Samos. |
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| | The Church Historian, Eusebius, cites Polycrates, Bishop of Ephesus (later 2nd century), as a source and preserves some of his references to the Holy Apostle in his Ecclesiastical History. | | | Polycrates also reports that the Holy Apostle was a family man with three daughters, two of which were buried in Hierapolis, while the third rested in Ephesus. | | | Later hagiographical traditions also report him as evangelizing as far afield as northern France. |
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| | History - RENOWNED HOMOPHILES OF THE GREEK ANTIQUITY |
| | Polycrates had a statue of this youth erected at the temple of Hera in Samos, which was described by Apuleius who still saw it. | | | Anacreon, however, did not show his irritation, but acted as if the boy had decided to bereave himself of the ornament of his locks. | | | HIERON, king of Syracuse 478-467 BC, was a high-minded and noble prince, protector of the arts and science; at his court he gathered the most famous poets of the time, such as Pindar, Aeschylus, Simonides, Bacchylides. |
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| | Saint Jerome: Lives of Illustrious Men |
| | Polycrates bishop of the Ephesians with other bishops of Asia who in accordance with some ancient custom celebrated the passover with the Jews on the fourteenth of the month, wrote a synodical letter against Victor bishop of Rome in which he says that he follows the authority of the apostle John and of the ancients. | | | I also, Polycrates, the least of all your servants, according to the doctrine of my relatives which I also have followed (for there were seven of my relatives bishops indeed and I the eighth) have always celebrated the passover when the Jewish people celebrated the putting away of the leaven. | | | And so brethren being sixty-five years old in the Lord and instructed by many brethren from all parts of the world, and having searched all the Scriptures, I will not fear those who threaten us, for my predecessors said 'It is fitting to obey God rather than men.'" |
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| | F. THE PHILOSOPHER PYTHAGORAS. |
| | A. At the time when Polycrates made Samos famous with his peace and war works, another Samian made it famous with his new theories and wise teaching. | | | A lot of his admirers, united in international schools, try to revive his way of living and teaching. | | | Some people say that he left Samos because he predicted the Persian wars and he could not tolerate tyranny and Polycrates himself. |
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| | The Great Falling Away - The Third Century, Polycrates, and the Passover |
| | So more than 40 years after Polycarp had debated the topic with Anicetus at Rome, Polycrates, Bishop of Ephesus and disciple of Polycarp, the disciple of John, the apostle of Jesus, still (as his mentors before him), adamantly opposed any deviation from the teaching which in essence had come from Christ Himself. | | | Polycrates and his followers continued to observe the 14th day of the first month of the | | | And moreover I also, Polycrates, the least of you all, [do] according to the tradition..." Second Century Christianity, pg 82 |
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| | Polycrates Hanged (Getty Museum) |
| | Despite his luck with the ring, a dire fate awaited Polycrates. | | | Boccaccio's story tells that he found the ring again in a fish's belly, but the artist or his adviser misinterpreted the story. | | | Confusing the French word for ring, annel, with that for lamb, agnel, the Boucicaut Master painted the fish returning a lamb to Polycrates instead of his ring. |
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| | Philip the Disciple |
| | Polycrates says Philip was one of the great "lights of Asia." As Judas was the treasurer and took care of their financial matters, Philip was the one who was responsible for seeing to it that they always had food. | | | Eusebius mentions two of his daughters who were virgins and one was buried and died at Ephesus. | | | We know with reasonable certainty that he lived for many years as a bishop, and died in great honor. |
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| | Polycrates was a bishop, who presided over the churches in Asia Minor. | | | Last of all I too, Polycrates, the least of you all, act according to the tradition of my family, some members of which I have actually followed; for seven of them were bishops and I am the eighth, and my family have always kept the day when the people put away the leaven. | | | Victor was an early leader of the Roman Catholic Church and occupied the position that would become known as, “The Pope.” In this letter, which was written over one hundred years after the crucifixion of Jesus, Polycrates protested Victor’s demand to replace Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread with the pagan-based festival of Easter. |
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| | Adherents.com |
| | Disliking the dictatorship of Polycrates in his native Samos, he travelled in Egypt, then settled in Italy. |
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| | Legend has it that Polycrates used to write to his friend Amases, about his exceptionally happy life. | | | Taking his dear friend's advice, Polycrates threw his most valuable and favorite ring into the sea, though it truly upset him. | | | This tunnel, 1,036 metres long, which penetrates the mountain evokes admiration for the precision of its calculations: the excavations were conducted on both sides and met in the middle with no margin of error. |
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| | Tracking the Day-of-the-Sun |
| | The possibility that some among the Apostles may have been ranking members of the priesthood is manifest from Polycrates epistle to Victor (Second Century CE). | | | Of further significance is that one or more of the New Testament authors may themselves have been ranking members of the then priesthood. |
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| | Welcome to Samos |
| | Aesop the well-known story teller and the famous mathematician Pythagoras are also from Samos. | | | After the death of Polycrates (522 BC), wars between Greeks and Persians followed. | | | The high point in Samos' history was at the time of the tyrant Polycrates (6th century BC). |
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| | Das Ring Der Polykrates Synopsis |
| | Wilhelm is supposed to start an argument with his wife by asking the “Fateful question” about her former life. | | | All agree: The Ring of Polycrates, the sacrifice that has to be offered, is none other than the intriguer Peter Vogel himself, who has tried to ruin their happiness. | | | In order to provoke Wilhelm, he advises him to sacrifice something, after the model of Shiller’s “The Ring of Polycrates” ballad, this in order not to challenge fate with his great good luck. |
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| | The Early Church and Sunday Observance, and Sunday Was Abolished at Calvary |
| | Polycrates further states, "[We] have always kept the day when the people put away the leaven [the Jewish Passover], so I, my friends, after spending sixty-five years in the Lord's service and conversing with Christians from all parts of the world, and going carefully through all Holy Scripture, am not scared of threats. | | | Polycrates, the Bishop of Ephesus, did not support a Sunday Passover (Easter) and wrote in defense of the Asian churches as follows: | | | Better people than I have said: 'We must obey God rather than men' ( Ibid. |
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| | Pandoras Files - scientific research revealing the secrets of the world |
| | Samos was seized by Polycrates who established Samos as a centre of power through alliances, the maintainance of an army and navy, - and through piracy. | | | Despite a permission obtained from the Egyptian ruler most of the Egyptian priestly schools seemed unwilling to take in the young foreigner who eventually found a grudging acceptance and went on to learn much in Egypt. | | | Pythagoras was captured and carried into captivity in Babylon where he associated with the mystically inclined Magi (followers of Zoroaster) priesthood and gained further instruction in mathematics, geometry, and music. |
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| | North aegean islands-samos,Hotels in Greece-Aegean Webserver |
| | Among the island's first inhabitants were the Pelasgians, who established the worship of the goddess Hera on Samos. | | | The present-day jetty has been constructed on top of the ancient foundations. | | | The area abounds in important ruins: the Polycrates Wall (2nd half 6th century B.C.), the ancient theatre, and the famous Eupalinos Tunnel, a technical marvel dating to the 6th century B.C., which used to supply the town with water. |
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| | The Tunnel of Eupalinos |
| | Polycrates also engaged Eupalinos on another project: to build a tunnel. | | | Jean found even more information some weeks after our return. | | | Then widespread information is that Aeakes, the father of Polycrates, may have started the tunnel even though Polycrates gets the credit for it on Samos itself, and in most of the guidebooks. |
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| | Libraries, Ancient Greek and Roman [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | But it was the Meacedonian rulers of Alexandria who first created a public library on a large scale. | | | We do indeed hear of a library formed by Pisistratus, which Aulus Gellius calls "the first public library"; of another by Polycrates, the tyrant of Samos; and among private collectors we hear of Nicocrates of Cyprus, Euclid the Archon, Euripides, Euthydemus, and Aristotle. |
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| | SamosIn History - Journey to Samos |
| | Therefore Polycrates had rendered Samos a leading city-state among the Greeks and the Barbarians. | | | He was also the first who tried to unite all Greeks against the Persians. | | | ollowing PolycratesÂ’ assasination in 522 BC, many wars took place and Samos was the focal point of the conflicts between the Greeks and the Persians. |
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| | The Passover-Easter Controversy |
| | Many bishops protested, such as the aforementioned Irenaeus, though they did not agree with the Quartodeciman position. | | | In anger, Victor excommunicated the Quartodeciman Polycrates and those who shared his views. | | | We can be certain that this happened because Irenaeus' letter, written only a few decades after the original event, called on another bishop of Rome to repent and follow the well-known example of his predecessor. |
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| | The Tunnel of Samos |
| | Water could have been brought around the mountain by an aqueduct, as the Romans were to do centuries later from a different source, but, aware of the dangers of having a watercourse exposed to an enemy for even part of its length, Polycrates ordered a delivery system that was to be completely subterranean. | | | Today, the site is partly occupied by the seaside village of Pythagorion, named in honor of Pythagoras, the mathematician and philosopher who was born on Samos around 572 B.C. Pythagoras spent little of his adult life in Samos, and there is no reason to believe that he played a role in designing the tunnel. | | | His city was made virtually impregnable by a ring of fortifications that rose over the top of the 900-foot Mount Castro. |
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