Acraephnium (mod. Karditza), city in NE *Boeotia, located above a small bay of Lake *Copais; perhaps the Homeric Arne. Fortifications and cemeteries have been excavated, the latter revealing splendid examples of early painted pottery. It entered the Boeotian Confederacy in 447
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Acraephnium
John Buckler
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Acragas
Arthur Geoffrey Woodhead and R. J. A. Wilson
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Acrisius
Herbert Jennings Rose
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acrostic
Don P. Fowler and Peta G. Fowler
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acta
John Percy Vyvian Dacre Balsdon and Andrew Lintott
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Actaeon
Herbert Jennings Rose and Jenny March
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actio
Thomas Rüfner
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Actium
W. M. Murray
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Acts of the Apostles
Christopher Rowland
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Acts of the Pagan (or Heathen) Martyrs
Edith Mary Smallwood and M. T. Griffin
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Acusilaus
Acusilaus, of Argos, lived ‘before the *Persian Wars’ (Joseph. Ap. 1–13) and compiled *genealogies, translating and correcting *Hesiod, with ingenious conjectures but no literary merit.
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Ada
Simon Hornblower
Ada, *satrap (see
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adaeratio
Arnold Hugh Martin Jones and Michael Crawford
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Adamklissi
John Wilkes
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adeia
Arnold Wycombe Gomme and P. J. Rhodes
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Adiabene
Margaret Stephana Drower, Eric William Gray, and Susan Mary Sherwin-White
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adlection
John Percy Vyvian Dacre Balsdon and Barbara Levick
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Adonis
V. Pirenne-Delforge and André Motte
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adoption, Greek
Pietro Cobetto Ghiggia
The article examines the institution of adoption in classical Greece. Although it has been a widespread practice since the most archaic times, the most complete sources are related to Athens, thanks to the oratory of the 4th century