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- An ancient city of east-central Greece. It was the capital of Megaris, a small Dorian state between the Saronic Gulf and the Gulf of Corinth. Megara flourished as a maritime center from the eighth to the fifth century BC.
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- proper noun A city west of
Athens in theAttica prefectureGreece
Etymologies
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Although some believe Thucydides here refers to the Megara Decree cf.
THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003
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Although some believe Thucydides here refers to the Megara Decree cf.
THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003
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“The Enterprise has been assigned to escort me to Megara, which is somewhere in the Perseus sector—what is it, uh, Info?”
DEBTOR'S PLANET W.R. THOMPSON 2000
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His headquarters were fixed on an isthmus uniting the peninsula of Carthage with the main-land, from which he attacked the suburb called Megara, and took it, and shut up the Carthaginians in the old town and ports.
Ancient States and Empires John Lord 1852
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Having ordered his troops to provide themselves with axes, levers, and scaling-ladders, he led them in the dead of the night, and without the least noise, to a district of the city, called Megara; when ordering them to give a sudden and general shout, he attacked it with great vigour.
The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) Charles Rollin 1701
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"Megara" by Max Bertolini (cover of F&SF, January)
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"Megara" by Max Bertolini (cover of F&SF, January)
January 2006 2006
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The poem is modelled partly on the Alexandrian Idyll, such an Idyll for instance as the second Idyll of Theocritus or the 'Megara' or 'Europa' of Moschus, and partly perhaps on the narratives in the 'Metamorphoses' of Ovid, to which the opening bears a typical resemblance.
The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson Alfred Tennyson Tennyson 1850
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While Heracles is in the underworld obtaining Cerberus for one of his labors, his father Amphitryon, wife Megara, and children are sentenced to death in Thebes, Greece by Lycus.
Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World Jonathan Aquino 2009
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Megara looks and acts a lot like lois lane and hercules and clark are both as meg and lois say farmboys.
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