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Title: www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/book... Year: 1894 (1890s) Authors: S. Smith, William, Sir, 1813-1893 Subjects: Publisher: Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Text Appearing Before Image: apvdv, -aucs), one of the Epi-goni, son of Alcmaeon and Callirrhoe, andbrother of Amphoterus. Their father was mur-dered by Phegeus when they were young, andCallirrhoe prayed to Zeus to make her sons growquickly, that they might avenge their fathersdeath. When they grew up, they slew Phegeus,and went to Epirus, where Acarnan foundedthe state called after him Acarnania (Thuc. ii.102 ; Apollod. iii. 3, 5; Ov. M. ix. 413). Acarnania ( AKapvavia: Aitapvav, -avos,Acarnan, anis, acc. ana, pi. anas, Liv. xxxvi.11,6; Epit. 53: adj.A<apva.viKos, Acarnanlcus),the most westerly province of Greece, wasbounded on the N. by the Ambracian gulf, onthe W. and SW. by the Ionian Sea, on the NE.by Amphilochia, which is sometimes includedin Acarnania, and on the E. by Aetolia. It con-tained about 1,571 square miles. Its chiefriver is the Achelous, hence called amnisAcarnan (Sil. It. iii. 42) and amnis Acarnanum (Ov. M. viii. 569): the river god is representedon the coins of Acarnania as a bull with the

Text Appearing After Image: Coin of Acarnania.Obv., head of river-god Achelous ; rev., Apollo. head of a man. [Achelous.] The name of Acar-nania does not occur in Homer. In the mostancient times the land was inhabited by theTaphii, Teleboae, and Leleges, and subsequentlyby the Curetes, who emigrated from Aetolia andsettled there (Strab. p. 465). At a later time acolony from Argos, said to have been led byAcarnan, the son of Alcmaeon, settled in thecountry. In the seventh century B.C. the Co-rinthians founded several towns on the coast.The Acarnanians first emerge from obscurityat the beginning of the Peloponnesian war,B.C. 431, when they sided with the Athenians(Thuc. iii. 105 seq.). They were then a rudepeople, living by piracy and robbery, and theyalways remained behind the rest of the Greeksin civilisation and refinement. They were goodslingers, and are praised for their fidelity andcourage. They espoused the side of Philip inhis war with the Romans (Liv. xxxiii. 16, 17).The different towns formed a League wi

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