AKHELÓOS

or Achelousäkhĕlôˈôs, river, 137 mi (221 km) long, rising in the Pindus Mts., NW Greece, and flowing generally south, traversing many mountain gorges, and emptying into the Ionian Sea opposite Keffallinía. It is a source of hydroelectric power. It formed a part of the boundary between ancient Aetolia and Acarnania and was formerly called Aspropotamos.

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The Western Greeks: The History of Sicily and South Italy from the Foundation of the Greek Colonies to 480 B.C
Book by T. J. Dunbabin; Clarendon Press, 1948
Subjects: Greece--Colonies--Italy
...mother, Europa on the Bull, Herakles and the river-god Akheloos, 3 and a Sphinx. 4 They are strongly Peloponnesian in style...cup NC , no. 1056, Graf 425, pl. 25 c. 580-570 . The Akheloos metope Payne dates by implication to the first quarter of the...
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Western Europe
Book by John Dornberg; Oryx Press, 1996
Subjects: Europe--History, Europe--History, Local
...started in 1993 with 40 percent financing by the EU, is the Akheloos project in Greece. It calls for construction of two huge dams...miles of tunnels to redirect nearly 150 miles of the upper Akheloos, the countrys longest river. It will substantially increase...
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Philostratus's Heroikos: Religion and Cultural Identity in the Third Century C.E
Book by Ellen Bradshaw Aitken, Jennifer K. Berenson Maclean; Brill, 2004
Subjects: Christianity And Literature--Rome, Civilization, Greco-Roman, In Literature, Dialogues, Greek--History And Criticism, Heroes In Literature, Philostratus--The Athenian--2nd/3rd Cent--Heroicus, Protesilaus (Greek Mythology), Religion And Literature--Rome, Religion In Literature, Trojan War--Literature And The War
...63, 97-98, 148, 152-53, 161, I64, I83, I9I, 2I5, 23z, 259 Ajax the Lesser (Locrian), 228, 234 Akesa, 226 Akheloos, 225 Akherousias, 23-24, 44, 262-63 Alcestis, 34, 173-74 Alexander (Parts), 41, 129, 255, 272, 281,283...
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Confucius to Cummings: An Anthology of Poetry
Book by Ezra Pound, Marcella Spann; New Directions, 1964
Subjects: Poetry--Collections
...gods fought for a girl, Battle and dust! Might of a River with horns crashing. Four bulls together Shall no man tether, Akheloos neither, lashing through Oneudai. Strophe : As bow is bent The Theban Cub, Bacchus own, spiked is his club, He is Gods...
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On Heroes
Book by Philostratus, Jennifer K. Berenson Maclean, Ellen Bradshaw Aitken; Brill, 2003
Subjects: Dialogues, Greek--Translations Into English, Heroes--Early Works To 1800, Trojan War--Early Works To 1800
...kingdom by his brother Agrios, avenged later by Diomedes, and buried in Oinoe. A number of fragments of Euripides tragedy about him are preserved. Oiniadai: City in Acarnania on a rocky outcrop in the plain of the mouth of the Akheloos.
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Aspropotamos
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ASPROPOTAMOS see Akheloos , river, Greece. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Achelous , River, Greece
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ACHELOUS , river, Greece see Akheloos , river, Greece. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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AkhelÓos
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
AKHELOOS or Achelous akhelo os, river, 137 mi (221 km) long, rising in the Pindus Mts., NW Greece, and flowing generally south...


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