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The Theme of Samos (, thema Samou ) was a Byzantine military-civilian province, located in the eastern Aegean Sea , established in the late 9th century. As one of the Byzantine Empire's three dedicated naval themes (Greek: ), it served chiefly to provide ...

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They had been sold to the harem by an infamous merchant of Samos who trafficked in abducted Greek youths.

Although he controlled the Greek cities of Asia Minor and exercised a degree of suzerainty over a number of islands like Samos, the Great King was never much interested in the western world, particularly after his defeat on the Danube.

When the tyrant of Samos was put to death by the Persian satrap at Sardis, his physician Democedes was enslaved.

He had served Pisistratus at Athens, Polycrates in Samos, and the Great King himself at Susa.

I can remember when the court at Samos was even more dazzling than that of Pisistratus.

My first task, then, clear-cut in the fourth panel, had been to hie me from Samos to Mount Atlas, where sat the crony trio on their thrones, facing outward back to back and shoulder shoulder in a mean triangle.

In Erythraea I have spoken, and in Phrygia, in Samos and Libya and many other holy places in the lands of men.

He must have known the systems of Philolaus and of Hipparchus, and that of Aristarchus of Samos which was my choice in later years, but these speculations had ceased to interest him.

More than half the cargo of oil was intact, and we headed for Samos to trade the oil for anything that might turn a profit.

And the latter is really the malice that Epicurus aimed at Plato: he was peeved by the grandiose manner, the mise en scene at which Plato and his disciples were so expert - at which Epicurus was not an expert - he, that old schoolmaster from Samos who sat, hidden away, in his little garden at Athens and wrote three hundred books - who knows?

But she and Tanvir had presumably been required to go out so a mother-in-law could enjoy herself not the samos as one, as I discovered when I phoned.

King demanded that Smyrna, Ephesus, Priene, Miletus, Halicarnassus and the islands of Chios and Samos donate him all the ships he needed.

The way he tells it, Coleus of Samos was the first Greek to sail out of the Mediterranean into the Atlantic.

The way he tells it, Coleus of Samos was the first Greek to sail out of the Mediterranean into the Atlantic .

So, banking on Dictys to safekeep her, I'd set out for Samos on a tip from half-sister Athene, to learn about life from art: for represented in her temple murals there (and so reditto'd here in mine) were all three Gorgons -- snakehaired, swinetoothed, buzzardwinged, brassclawed -- whereof, as semiSis was pointing out, only the middle one, Medusa, was mortal, decapitable, and petrifacient.