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    Priene (Ancient Greek: Πριήνη, romanized: Priēnē; Turkish: Prien) was an ancient Greek city of Ionia (and member of the Ionian League) located at the base...
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    is mine I carry with me") is a quote that Cicero ascribes to Bias of Priene. Bias of Priene, one of the Seven Sages of Greece, is said to make the statement...
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    homage to Saint Crispin, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Greek philosopher Bias of Priene. Bias Fortes completed his first studies in Barbacena and later moved to...
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  • with similar ruses. One of the earliest was the 6th century BCE Greek Bias of Priene who successfully resisted the Lydian king Alyattes by fattening up a...
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    Guido Dettoni della Grazia (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    he read the story of the Greek philosopher Bias of Priene in Cicero's Paradoxa Stoicorum. When Bias of Priene was asked why he was empty handed when fleeing...
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  • between Pharaoh Amasis II and the king of Ethiopia, in which the sage Bias of Priene helps the Pharaoh by solving the riddles, in Plutarch's first- or second-century...
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    that the location is a threat to them. In the 6th century BCE Greek Bias of Priene successfully resisted the Lydian king Alyattes by fattening up a pair...
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    Thales of Miletus (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    four which includes Thales, Solon of Athens, Pittacus of Mytilene, and Bias of Priene. Diogenes Laërtius tells us that the Seven Sages were created in the...
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    Domenico De Angelis (15 February 1735 – 10 March 1804) was an Italian painter of the Neoclassic period. Born Domenico Turreggia in Ponzano, he changed...
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    Ionic-style temple to Athena Polias was built at Priene in the fourth century BC. It was designed by Pytheos of Priene, the same architect who designed the Mausoleum...
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