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HELICON , a See also:mountain range, of See also:Boeotia in See also:ancient See also:Greece, celebrated in classical literature as the favourite haunt of the See also:Muses, is situated between See also:Lake Copals and the Gulf of See also:Corinth. On the fertile eastern slopes stood a See also:temple and See also:grove sacred to the Muses, and adorned with beautiful statues, which, taken by See also:Constantine the See also:Great to beautify his new See also:city, were consumed there by a See also:fire in A.D. 404. Hard by were the famous fountains, Aganippe and See also:Hippocrene, the latter fabled to have gushed from the See also:earth at the tread of the winged See also:horse See also:Pegasus, whose favourite browsing See also:place was there. At the neighbouring Ascra dwelt the poet See also:Hesiod, a fact which probably enhanced the poetic fame of the region. See also:Pausanias, who describes Helicon in his ninth See also:hook, asserts that it was the most fertile mountain in Greece, and that neither poisonous plant nor See also:serpent was to be found on it, while many of its herbs possessed a miraculous healing virtue. The highest See also:summit, the See also:present Palaeovouni (old 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), rises to the height of about 5000 ft. See also:Modern travellers, aided by ancient remains and See also:inscriptions, and guided by the See also:local descriptions of Pausanias, have succeeded in identifying many of the ancient classical spots, and the See also:French excavators have discovered the temple of the Muses and a See also:theatre.
1 The See also:term Volkssdnger, commonly used in See also:German discussions of this question, is misleading; the See also:audience for heroic See also:poetry was not " the See also:people " in the modern sense, but the nobles.
See also See also:- CLARKE, ADAM (1762?—1832)
- CLARKE, CHARLES COWDEN (1787-1877)
- CLARKE, EDWARD DANIEL (1769–1822)
- CLARKE, JAMES FREEMAN (1810–1888)
- CLARKE, JOHN SLEEPER (1833–1899)
- CLARKE, MARCUS ANDREW HISLOP (1846–1881)
- CLARKE, MARY ANNE (c.1776–1852)
- CLARKE, SAMUEL (1675–1729)
- CLARKE, SIR ANDREW (1824-1902)
- CLARKE, SIR EDWARD GEORGE (1841– )
- CLARKE, THOMAS SHIELDS (1866- )
- CLARKE, WILLIAM BRANWHITE (1798-1878)
Clarke, Travels in Various Countries (vol. vii., 1818); See also:Dodwell, Classical and Topographical Tour through Greece (1818); W. M. See also:Leake, Travels in See also:Northern Greece (vol. ii., 1835) ; J. G. Frazer's edition of Pausanias, v. 150.
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