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11) Stymphalian birds. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Greek mythology, dangerous man-eating birds that infested the woods around Lake Stymphalus in Arcadia. As his fifth labor, Hercules frightened the birds into the...

12) Damophon. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...sculptor of Messene. He is remembered for colossal heads of Demeter and Artemis, found in Arcadia. He was a skilled worker in ivory and gold....

13) Pan, in Greek religion and mythology. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Greek religion and mythology, pastoral god of fertility. He was worshiped principally in Arcadia, and one legend states that he was the son of Hermes, another Arcadian...

14) Fox sisters. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...1841-92. In 1848, Margaret and Catherine claimed to hear mysterious rappings in their Arcadia, N.Y., home. Claiming the sounds to be communication from spirits, the...

15) Laconia, ancient region, Greece. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
..., ancient region, S Peloponnesus, Greece, bounded on the W by Messenia and on the N by Arcadia and Argolis. On the Eurotas (now Evrotas), the principal river, stood...

16) Sannazaro, Jacopo. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...On Frederick's death, he returned to Naples and a life of study and literary fame. His Arcadia, a pastoral idyll in prose and verse, was the first of a long line...

17) Orchomenus. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Mithradates VI. Excavations on the site have been extensive. There was another Orchomenus in Arcadia, NW of Mantinea....

18) Styx. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...and Tethys and mother of Nike. There is a river Styx in the N Peloponnesus (in ancient Arcadia)....

19) Sidney, Sir Philip. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...and example. His literary efforts circulated only in manuscript during his lifetime. Arcadia (1590), a series of verse idyls connected by prose narrative, was written...

20) Karlfeldt, Erik Axel. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Prize in Literature, which he had refused in his lifetime. Selected poems were translated as Arcadia Borealis (1938)....

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