hide
Named Entity Searches
hide
Matching Documents
The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.
Document | Max. Freq | Min. Freq | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61 | 74 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Polybius, Histories | 48 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Pausanias, Description of Greece | 44 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) | 36 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War | 24 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Lycurgus, Speeches | 18 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Diodorus Siculus, Library | 16 | 0 | Browse | Search |
C. Suetonius Tranquillus, The Lives of the Caesars (ed. Alexander Thomson) | 16 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Vitruvius Pollio, The Ten Books on Architecture (ed. Morris Hicky Morgan) | 16 | 0 | Browse | Search |
T. Maccius Plautus, Mercator, or The Merchant (ed. Henry Thomas Riley) | 12 | 0 | Browse | Search |
View all matching documents... |
Browsing named entities in Diodorus Siculus, Library. You can also browse the collection for Rhodes (Greece) or search for Rhodes (Greece) in all documents.
Your search returned 8 results in 6 document sections:
In Greece Dorieus the Rhodian, the admiral of the triremes
from Italy, after he had quelled the tumult in
Rhodes,Cp.
chap. 38.5; Thuc. 8.44. set sail for the Hellespont, being eager to join Mindarus; for the latter was
lying at Abydus and collecting from every quarter the
ships of the Peloponnesian alliance. And when Dorieus was
already in the neighbourhood of Sigeium in the Troad,
the Athenians who were at Sestus, learning that he was sailing along the coast, put out against
him with their ships, seventy-four in all. Dorieus held to his
course for a time in ignorance of what was happening; but when he observed the great strength
of the fleet he was alarmed, and seeing no other way to save his force he put in at Dardanus.
Here he disembarked his soldiers and took over the troops who
were guarding the city, and then he speedily got in a vast supply of missiles and stationed his
soldiers both on the fore-parts of the shi
It was not in the case
of Tellias only that such magnificence of wealth occurred, he says, but also of many other
inhabitants of Acragas. Antisthenes at any rate, who
was called Rhodus, when celebrating the marriage of
his daughter, gave a party to all the citizens in the courtyards where they all lived and more
than eight hundred chariots followed the bride in the procession; furthermore, not only the men
on horseback from the city itself but also many from neighbouring cities who had been invited
to the wedding joined to form the escort of the bride. But
most extraordinary of all, we are told, was the provision for the lighting: the altars in all
the temples and those in the courtyards throughout the city he had piled high with wood, and to
the shopkeepers he gave firewood and brush with orders that when a fire was kindled on the
acropolis they should all do the same; and when they did as
they were ordered, at the time when