THÁSOS

thāˈsŏs, island (1991 pop. 13,527), c.170 sq mi (440 sq km), NE Greece, in the Aegean Sea. Timber, olive oil, honey, wine, and lead-zinc ores are its chief products; boatbuilding, fishing, and tourism are the main industries. Oil was discovered in the Aegean off Thasos in the early 1970s, leading to a dispute with Turkey over continental shelf rights. In legend its earliest colonists were led by Thasus, son of Poseidon, for whom the island was named. It was famous in ancient times for its gold mines, which were exploited by the Phoenicians. The island was colonized c.708 b.c. by persons from Páros, among whom was the poet Archilochus. In the 5th cent. b.c. it was subdued by Persia and then fell to Athens. A revolt against Athens was put down by Cimon in 463 b.c. The Ottoman Turks held Thásos almost continuously from the mid-15th cent. a.d. until 1912, when it passed to Greece.

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books on: ThAsos  - 513 results

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Athens and Sparta: Constructing Greek Political and Social History from 478 BC
Book by Anton Powell; Routledge, 2001
Subjects: Athens (Greece)--Politics And Government, Athens (Greece)--Social Conditions, Greece--Politics And Government--To 146 B.C, Greece--Social Conditions--To 146 B.C, Sparta (Extinct City)--Politics And Government, Sparta (Extinct City)--Social Conditions
...and taking down its defensive wall. 143 Thasos also agreed to pay phoros and to make...Thucydides does not describe precisely. 144 Thasos was treated severely. If we wish to explain...explore the possibility of a link between Thasos and Persia which might have menaced the...
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The School of History: Athens in the Age of Socrates
Book by Mark Munn; University of California Press, 2000
Subjects: Athens (Greece)--Civilization--Political Aspects, Democracy--Greece--Athens--Historiography, Greece--History--Athenian Supremacy, 479-431 B.C
...407 as a consequence of the surrender of Thasos was characterized, as inscriptions attest...rent by stasis in the course of the war, Thasos showed the greatest hope of reaching a...eve of Lysanders purge. Historically, Thasos had a dominant influence over the gold...
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Greek Poetry and Life: Essays Presented to Gilbert Murray on His Seventieth Birthday, January 2, 1936
Book by Gilbert Murray; The Clarendon Press, 1936
Subjects: Greek Drama--History And Criticism, Greek Philology, Greek Poetry--History And Criticism, Murray, Gilbert--1866-1957
...Archilochus had played some part in the colonization of Thasos. If then, as seems very probable, Oenomaus account...the poet had reached manhood before the foundation of Thasos. Thasos is dated c . 708 B.C. by Xanthus, c . 720 B.C...
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Greek Architectural Terracottas: From the Prehistoric to the End of the Archaic Period
Book by Nancy A. Winter; Clarendon Press, 1993
Subjects: Architectural Terra-Cotta--Greece, Architecture, Ancient--Greece
...lateral simas have been documented on Thasos thus far. It has the tooth pattern and...a flat fascia above a narrow torus: Thasos Museum, inv. no. 78 1: Mon. Piot...103 1979 , Chr. 652, fig. 26. 150 Thasos Museum, inv. no. 1 A: Daux, Guide...
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Sympotica: A Symposium on the Symposion
Book by Oswyn Murray; Clarendon Press, 1990
Subjects: Symposium (Classical Greek Drinking Party)--Congresses
...support of inscriptions. The agora of Thasos features three circular structures, of...e.g. Plate 6 and inscriptions from Thasos attest to a number of thiasoi and ritual...Without explicit connections to meals the Thasos tholoi are only potential candidates for...
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The Throumbes of Thassos
Journal article by Christopher Bakken; Parnassus : Poetry in Review, Vol. 31, 2009
Subjects: Farming, Memory, Nostalgia, Olive oil, Olives, Thasos Greece
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Cyriacus of Ancona and the Revival of Two Forgotten Ancient Personifications in the Rector's Palace of Dubrovnik
Journal article by Stanko Kokole; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 49, 1996
Subjects: Classical antiquities--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Dubrovnik, Croatia--Monuments, statues, etc., Sculpture, Renaissance--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...Cyriacus paid a visit to the island of Thasos where he was warmly received by its feudal...only after his crucial discovery made on Thasos on 10 November 1444. Still, unless new...own preliminary reading of the statue on Thasos in which he recognized "an image of the...
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The Spread of Malaria to Southern Europe in Antiquity: New Approaches to Old Problems
Journal article by Robert Sallares, Abigail Bouwman, Cecilia Anderung; Medical History, Vol. 48, 2004
...responsible for disease) on the island of Thasos in northern Greece. The account of the first "constitution" at Thasos offers a one sentence definition of semitertian...constitution" states that many people on Thasos were affected by semitertian fevers...
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The Narrator as "he," "me," and "we": Grammatical Person in Ancient Histories and in the Acts of the Apostles
Journal article by William Sanger Campbell; Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. 129, 2010
Subjects: Proposals
...Olorus-he wrote the history of these events-who was near Thasos . . . urging him to come to their assistance. . . . 4.105...meantime, Brasidas, fearing the assistance of the ships from Thasos, and learning that Thucydides controlled the working of the...
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Timing, Slip Rate, Displacement and Cooling History of the Mykonos Detachment Footwall, Cyclades, Greece, and Implications for the Opening of the Aegean Sea Basin
Journal article by Stéphanie Brichau, Uwe Ring, Andrew Carter, Robert Bolhar, Patrick Monié, Daniel Stockli, Maurice Brunel; Journal of the Geological Society, Vol. 165, 2008
Subjects: Geology, History, Mykonos, Plate tectonics, Stratigraphy
...unknown displacements on the los top-to-the-south and Thasos detachments, match the >250 km of extension in the Aegean...not undergo significant extension. Extensional deformation on Thasos in the northern Aegean occurred from c. 21 to 8Ma (Wawrzenitz...
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Celebrity in the Ancient World: Robert Garland Considers the Meaning of Fame and Celebrity to the Greeks and Romans
Magazine article by Robert Garland; History Today, Vol. 55, March 2005
Subjects: Ancient Greek civilization--Social aspects, Ancient Roman civilization--Social aspects, Celebrities--History, Civilization, Greek--Social aspects, Conduct of life, Socrates
...in the Peloponnesian War because he was a Panhellenic victor, while the statue of another such victor, named Theagenes of Thasos, stood next to that of Alexander the Great at Olympia. A man of extraordinary stamina and fitness himself, Alexander was...
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Cyprus' May 21 Election: Low Voter Turnout, Rejection of Annan Plan Holds
Magazine article by Jon Gorvett; The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Vol. 25, August 2006
Subjects: Cyprus, Elections, International disputes, Racial violence, Voter behavior, Yashin, Neshe
...was all over, there was precious little evidence of any change at all. Indeed, the Democratic Party (DIKO) of President Thasos Papadopolous, who had led the anti-Annan campaign, increased its vote. The other main parties in the coalition government...


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newspaper articles on: ThAsos  - 2 results

 
 
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Archaeologist Traces Tale of Castle's Statues
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), March 18, 2005
Subjects: Clive, Robert
...from 100 to 200BC. Representations of cats in Roman art are rare. It is carved from marble quarried on the Greek island of Thasos which is distinctive for the large crystals embedded in it. The sculpture was bought in Rome by Lord Clive, Clive of India...
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Castle's Statues Have Something to Smile About
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), March 18, 2005
Subjects: Clive, Robert
...from 100 to 200BC. Representations of cats in Roman art are rare. It is carved from marble quarried on the Greek island of Thasos which is distinctive for the large crystals embedded in it. The sculpture was bought in Rome by Lord Clive, Clive of India...


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encyclopedia articles on: ThAsos  - 7 results

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ThÁsos
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
THASOS tha sos, island (1991 pop. 13,527...industries. Oil was discovered in the Aegean off Thasos in the early 1970s, leading to a dispute...Cimon in 463 b.c. The Ottoman Turks held Thasos almost continuously from the mid-15th...
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Greece
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Cyclades , the Northern Sporades , the Dodecanese (including Rhodes , Evvoia , Lesbos , Khios , Samos , Limnos , Samothrace , and Thasos , in the Aegean. Greece has few rivers, none of them navigable. The Greek people are only partly descended from the ancient...
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PÁros
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...settled by Ionians and became a maritime power and a center of Aegean trade. In the 7th cent. b.c. it established colonies in Thasos and on the Sea of Marmara. During the Persian Wars, Athens accused Paros of aiding the Persians and captured the island in...
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Stesimbrotus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
STESIMBROTUS stes imbro t s, fl. 5th cent. b.c., Greek biographer, b. Thasos. He wrote biographical studies of Pericles, Themistocles, and Thucydides, son of Melesias. In addition he wrote books on Homer...
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Aegean Sea
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...with islands, most of which belong to Greece; they include Evvoia , the Sporades , the Cyclades , Samos , Khios , Lesbos , Thasos , and the Dodecanese . The Aegean Seas greatest depths (more than 11,600 ft/3,540 m) are found E of Crete. The Dardanelles...
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