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Britannica 11th

Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition

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Evagoras

Britannica 11th

EVAGORAS, son of Nicocles, king of Salamis in Cyprus 410374 B.C. He claimed descent from Teucer, half-brother of Ajax, son of Telamon, and his family had long been rulers of Salamis until supplanted by a Phoenician exile. When the usurper was in turn driven ou ...

Vol. 9, pp. 959-959 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 330.0

Evagrius

Britannica 11th

EVAGRIUS (c. 536-600), surnamed SCHOLASTICUS, Church historian, was born at Epiphania in Coele-Syria. His surname shows him to have been an advocate, and it is supposed that he practised at Antkxrh. He was the legal adviser of Gregory, patriarch of that city,

Vol. 9, pp. 959-959 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 33.75

Artaxerxes

Britannica 11th

... rgetic Persian general Pharnabazus succeeded in creating a fleet by the help of Evagoras, king of Salamis in Cyprus, and the Athenian commander Conon, and destroyed the Spartan fleet at Cnidus (August 394). This victory enabled the Greek allies of Persia (Theb ...

Vol. 2, pp. 661-663 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 12.0

Euyuk

Britannica 11th

... up by a bull. These are all scenes in the ritual of the indigenous naturalistic EVAGORAS— EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE religion which was spread, in slightly varying forms, all over Asia Minor, and consisted in the worship of the self-reproductive powers of nature, pe ...

Vol. 9, pp. 958-959 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 12.0