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    as Megas Hymettos and the southern peaks as Elasson (Ἐλάσσων "lesser, smaller") and Anydros Hymettos (Ἄνυδρος Ὑμηττός, "waterless Hymettos"). Today the...
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    or ritual significance. A deliberately incomplete abecedarium found at Hymettos in Attica may have been a votive offering. Near the beginning of the Christian...
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    because it was soaked in Attic honey from the thyme-covered slopes of Mount Hymettos. His contemporary, the comic poet Antiphanes, tells us the other main ingredients...
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    because it was soaked in Attic honey from the thyme-covered slopes of Mount Hymettos. His contemporary, the comic poet Antiphanes, tells us the other main ingredients...
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    because it was soaked in Attic honey from the thyme-covered slopes of Mount Hymettos. His contemporary, the comic poet Antiphanes, tells us the other main ingredients...
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  • during the winter solstice, sunrise occurs over the high brow of Mount Hymettos in the southeast. So from Meton's observatory the Sun appears to move along...
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    tunnel at Athens, which most likely had its sources on the slopes of Mount Hymettos and along the Ilissos river. It supplied, among other structures, the fountain...
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  • Parnassós, Parnassus); -ττ-, -tt- (e.g. Ἀττική, Attikḗ, Attica; Ὑμηττός, Hymēttós, Hymettus); region names e.g. Ἀχαΐα, Achaíā, Achaea; Λακωνία, Lakōníā,...
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    and the outer courses are larger, in a pinkish "kara" limestone from Mt Hymettos and are partially worked over with a claw chisel. The claw marks are of...
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  • Greece 1.32.2 Langdon, Merle K. (1976). "A Sanctuary of Zeus on Mount Hymettos". Hesperia Supplements. 16. American School of Classical Studies at Athens:...
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