• The Lesche of the Knidians (or Cnidians) was a lesche, i.e. a club or meeting place, at the sanctuary of Apollo in Delphi. Today, it has been mostly destroyed;...
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  • attached to the temples of Apollo, one of whose epithets was Apollo Leschenorios (Λεσχηνόριος). Of such leschae the chief was the Lesche of the Knidians, which...
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  • Lesche (1917–2002), Finnish speed skater Lesches, Seine-et-Marne, French commune Lesches-en-Diois, French village and commune Lesche of the Knidians,...
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    important of his paintings were his frescoes in the Lesche of the Knidians, a building erected at Delphi by the people of Cnidus. The subjects of these were...
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  • neglected through ignorance and lack of connoisseurship. Missing works with the highest estimated market values Portrait of a Young Man by Raphael Nativity...
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    of Polygnotus in the Lesche of the Knidians represented her holding two of her sons by the hand, accompanied by Antenor holding one of her daughters. It...
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    detailed is also the description of the Lesche of the Knidians and particularly, as mentioned above, of the painting of the "Capture of Troy" by Polygnotus...
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    Auge (category Women of Heracles)
    Polygnotus which decorated one of the interior walls of the 5th century BC Lesche of the Knidians, a building near the Cassotis spring at Delphi. However...
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    the Sanctuary of Apollo in Delphi by the Treasury of the Cnidians of the late Archaic period and by a late Classical period building, called "Lesche"...
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  • Lepreus Lepsia Lepsimandus Leptines of Syracuse Lerna Lernaean Hydra Lesbonax Lesbos Lesche Lesche of the Knidians Lesches Lethe Leto Leucadius Leuce Leucippe...
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