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ELIS , the See also: chief See also:city of the See also:ancient See also:Greek See also:district of Elis, was situated on the See also:river Peneus, just where it passes from the mountainous district of Acrorea into the See also:champaign below. According to native tradition, it was originally founded by Oxylus, the See also:leader of the Aetolians, whose statue stood in the See also:market-See also:place. In 471 B.C. it received a See also:great See also:extension by the See also:incorporation (synoecism) of various small hamlets, whose inhabitants took up their See also:abode in the city. Up to this date it only occupied the See also:ridge of the See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill now called Kalaskopi, to the See also:south of the Peneus, but afterwards it spread out in several suburbs, and even to the other See also:side of the stream. As all the athletes who intended to take See also:part in the Olympic See also:games were obliged to undergo a See also:month's training in the city, its gymnasiums were among its See also:principal institutions. They were three in number —the " Xystos," with its avenues of See also:plane-trees, its plethrion or See also:wrestling-place, its altars to Heracles, to See also:Eros and See also:Anteros, to See also:Demeter and Kore (Cora), and its See also:cenotaph of See also:Achilles; the " Tetragonon," appropriated to See also:boxing exercises; and the " Maltho," in the interior of which was a See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall or See also:council chamber called Lalichmion after its founder. The market-place was of the old-fashioned type, with porticoes at intervals and paths leading between them. It was called the See also:Hippodrome because it was commonly used for exercising horses. Among the other See also:objects of See also:interest were the See also:temple of See also:Artemis Philomirax; the Hellanodicaeon, or See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of the Hellanodicae; the Corcyrean Hall, a See also:building in the Dorian See also:style with two facades, built of spoils from Corcyra; a temple of See also:Apollo Acesius; a temple of See also:Silenus; an ancient structure supported on oaken pillars and reputed to be the See also:burial-place of Oxylus; the building where the sixteen See also:women of Elis were wont to weave a robe for the statue of See also:Hera at See also:Olympia; the temple of See also:Aphrodite, with a statue of the goddess by See also:Pheidias as Urania with a See also:tortoise beneath her See also:foot, and by See also:Scopas as Pandemos, See also:riding on a See also:goat; and the See also:shrine of See also:Dionysus, whose festival, the Thyia, was yearly celebrated in the neighbourhood. On the See also:acropolis was a temple of See also:Athena, with a See also:gold and See also:ivory statue by Pheidias. The See also:history of the See also:town is closely identified with that of the See also:country. In 399 B.C. it was occupied by See also:Agis, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Sparta. The acropolis was fortified in 312 by See also: Telesphorus, the See also:admiral of Antigonus, but it was shortly afterwards dismantled by See also:Philemon, another of his generals. A view of the site is given by See also:Stanhope. It is now called Palaeopolis. No traces of any buildings can be identified, the only remains visible dating from See also:Roman times.
See See also:Pausanias vi. 23-26; J. See also:Spencer Stanhope, Olympia and Elis (1824), See also:folio; W. M. See also:Leake, Morea (1830) ; E. See also:Curtius, See also:Peloponnesus (1851–1852); See also:Schiller, Stdmme and Staaten Griechenlands; C. See also:Bursian, Geographie von Griechenland (1868–1872); P. See also:Gardner, " The Coins of Elis," in Num. Chr. (1879). (E.
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