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Why do Antigone's brothers fight? The right to the Theban throne is why Antigone's brothers fight. Eteocles and Polyneices are twins. So they both have rights to the throne that's vacated by their father and half-brother, Theban King Oedipus. The brothers are supposed to alternate years in a joint power sharing arrangement. Eteocles gets to occupy the throne first. But he refuses to give the throne up once his year his over.
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Titan (mythology) Like Cronus overthrowing his father Uranus, the Titans were overthrown by Cronus' children (Zeus, Hades, Poseidon, Hestia, Hera and Demeter), in the Titanomachy (or War of the Titans). The Greeks may have borrowed this mytheme from the Ancient Near East.
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Peroxy acid Peroxymonosulfuric acid (Caro's acid) is probably the most important inorganic peracid, at least in terms of the scale. It is used for the bleaching of pulp and for the detoxification of cyanide in the mining industry. It is produced by treating sulfuric acid with hydrogen peroxide.
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- As the Persians were coming down from the mountain Xerxes also sent his army for a frontal attack, in response the Greeks moved out into the wider part of the pass. During the ensuing battle the Greeks fought hard but Leonadis was killed by Persian archers causing a battle for the body which the Greeks won.
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Peisistratos Peisistratus was the brother-in-law of Cleisthenes ; however, Peisistratus was much older. Peisistratids is the common term for the three tyrants who ruled in Athens from 546 to 510 BC, namely Peisistratos and his two sons, Hipparchus and Hippias . Rise Peisistratos was a distant relativ Express yourself. Organize your knowledge. Expand your mind.
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Cynicism (contemporary) Cynicism (contemporary) Cynicism is an attitude or state of mind characterized by a general distrust of others' motives. A cynic may have a general lack of faith or hope in the human species or people motivated by ambition, desire, greed, gratification, materialism, goals, and opinions that a cynic perceives as vain, unobtainable, or ultimately meaningless and therefore deserving of ridicule or admonishment. A common misapplication of this attitude involves its attribution to individuals who emote well-thought-out expr
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- The battle was between the defending Greek city-states led by Athenian General Themistocles, King Leonidas I of Sparta and Demophilus of Thespiae and the attacking Persian army of Xerxes I of Persia.
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- The Inca civil war had been fought between two brothers, Atahuallpa and Huascar. Each brother thought he had the right to rule. The war ended when Atahuallpa killed his brother and became emperor. Atahuallpa was carried to Pizarro on a golden throne lined with parakeet feathers. Around his neck he wore a necklace of giant green emeralds. Gold ornaments decorated his hair.
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Vikingsfinale: Michael Hirst on what's next for Ragnar and his sons Ragnar Lothbrok led his Viking warriors into battle against his traitorous brother, Rollo, and despite promising that one brother would die in the ensuing showdown, both great warriors survived the day. But their positions have changed. Ragnar slumped home to Kattegat, defeated. Rollo returned to Paris, triumphant.
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Ashurbanipal Ashurbanipal had confirmed his half-brother Shamash-shum-ukin as local ruler of Babylonia, but with restricted powers. Assyrian garrisons and officials there continued to report to the Assyrian king, and he continued to appoint governors both in the Sealand (Persian Gulf) and in Ur.
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- The Battle of Thermopylae.  After King Darius died, his son, Xerxes, organized another attack on Greece.  His large army crossed the Hellespont to get from Asia into Europe and marched to Greece.  Athens used its navy to fight the Persians at sea, and Sparta attempted to stop the Persian army.
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1 Maccabees 1 Esther 101 Maccabees 2. 1 This history begins when Alexander the Great, son of Philip of Macedonia, marched from Macedonia and attacked Darius, king of Persia and Media. Alexander enlarged the Greek Empire by defeating Darius and seizing his throne. 2 He fought many battles, captured fortified cities, and put the kings of the region to death.
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- The Peloponnesian War (431 - 404 B.C). The War fought between the two leading city-states in ancient Greece, Athens and Sparta. The Peloponnesian War (431-404 B.C.) took place between the Athenian empire and Peloponnesian league lead by the Spartans. The Peloponnesian league was a coalition of the Thebes, Corinth and Sparta.
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ancient greece Battle of Marathon-Greek victory. Persian King Darius wanted to punish the Athenians for helping the Ionians during their rebellion. Greeks, led by Miltiades, used the natural geography against the Persians: 1)Battle took place between two mountains. 2)Persians couldn't use cavalry (couldn't get horses on marshy land).
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King Darius I the Great Darius and his son Xerxes are associated with the Greco-Persian or Persian Wars. The last king of the Achaemenid Dynasty was Darius III, who ruled from 336 - 330 B.C. Darius III was a descendant of Darius II (ruled 423-405 B.C.), who was a descendant of King Darius I.
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- Joffrey and Stannis are not the only Baratheons with a claim to the Iron Throne, however. The younger Baratheon brother, Renly of Storm's End, moved swiftly in the aftermath of Robert's death.
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Greco-Persian Wars The first campaign in 492 BC, led by Mardonius, re-subjugated Thrace and forced Macedon to become a client kingdom of Persia, after being allied or a vassal to Persia as early as the late 6th century BC. However, further progress was prevented when Mardonius's fleet was wrecked in a storm off the coast of Mount Athos.
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- The Thebans decided that his two sons, Eteocles (ἐτεοκλἣς) and Polyneices (πολυνείκης), would rule Thebes in alternate years, when Oedipus was in exile. Eteocles ruled in the first year at Thebes. However after his term ended, Eteocles refused to let his brother rule Thebes.
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- Two generations of war between two powerful cities: Argos and Thebes. The first war took shortly after the quest of Jason and the Argonauts and after the reign of Oedipus in Thebes. The second war was set just before the Trojan War began.
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Sirius Black Sirius was the last remaining heir of the House of Black, a once-notable pure-blood wizarding family. His parents, Orion and Walburga, were both Blacks by birth and second cousins. Sirius had a younger brother, Regulus, who died after turning against Lord Voldemort in 1979 by attempting to destroy his Horcruxes.
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History: A female athletic champion in ancient Olympics Prior to the Peloponnesian War, they’d been on a roll -- winning seven out of eght tethrippons. But during the war, Sparta had been barred from the Games by their enemies. When Kyniska’s father died in 427, her older brother Agis became king and kept hammering at the war. Finally a truce was negotiated.
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Ammon Their murder of Gedaliah (2 Ki 25:22-26; Jer 40:14) was a dastardly act. Tobiah the Ammonites united with Sanballat to oppose Neh (Neh 4), and their opposition to the Jews did not cease with the establishment of the latter in Judea. They joined the Syrians in their wars with the Maccabees and were defeated by Judas (1 Mac 5:6).
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Battle of Pharsalus The Battle of Pharsalus ended the wars of the First Triumvirate. The Roman Civil War, however, was not ended. Pompey's two sons, Gnaeus Pompeius and Sextus Pompey, and the Pompeian faction, led now by Metellus Scipio and Cato, survived and fought for their cause in the name of Pompey the Great.
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- While Leonidas was depicted as the main king of Sparta in the film, he was actually one of two Spartan kings in the historical accounts. Stelios, the young Spartan soldier who fights bravely alongside Leonidas during the three-day battle at Thermopylae is inspired by Leonidas' lieutenant Dieneces.he first two days of battle in the Thermopylae pass are described differently in the film than in the historical accounts. On the first day of battle, Xerxes ordered 5,000 archers fire arrows at the Greeks before he dispatched a force of 10,000 Medes and Cissians to attack the Greek lines.
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- This was the royal city and center of their power: Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the sons of Ammon and captured the royal city. 2 Samuel 12:26. David slept with Bathsheba while Joab was at Rabbah fighting the Ammonites: 2 Samuel 11:1-6. Rabbah was a walled city: Uriah was killed at Rabbah.
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CONTENTS Pass out cups half full with water to the students. 2. Tell the students that when we think of the water cycle, we often think of bodies of water. on the surface of the Earth, such as lakes, oceans, rivers, and streams. Water from these. surfaces enters the water cycle upon evaporation. Evaporation occurs when the water is. changed into a gas called water vapor.