Illustrations of school classics, arranged and described (1903)
Hill, George Francis, Sir, 1867-1948 · London, Macmillan · leaf 251
But this is for more than one reason animprobable explanation, and we may agree that the dedica-tion was made in commemoration of the cessation of theplague so vividly described by Thucydides (ii. 47-54). Theinscription is: The Athenians (dedicated this statue) toAthena, the Goddess of Health ;… … Shortly after the great defeat of the Athenians, theSyracusans founded a festival to commemorate theirvictory, known as the Assinaria, from the river Assinarus,where the great event took place. The games were firstcelebrated in the autumn of B.C. 412, and about the sametime the Syracusans began to…
Classical antiquities
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