Replying to another query, he said during these plantation initiatives, the KP forestry department was promoting Chilghoza (Pine nut) and Deodar in former FATA, also Deodar in Tirah Valley, Acacia in low lying areas, Acacia modesta (Phulai), Ziziphus and
olynthus (commercial value plants) in other parts of the province.
(39) This abandonment came on the heels of Philip's capture and enslavement of Chalcidice in 349 and
Olynthus in mid348 BCE, which became a turning point in Philip's war on Athens.
Using fourth-century BCE
Olynthus and first-century CE Pompeii as contrasting cases, Mayer draws attention to the commercialization of the urban landscape as single-purpose houses gave way to streets lined with shops (tabernae), often integrated within the domestic context.
One of the first uses of artillery, by Alexander the Great's father, Philip of Macedon, at the Greek city of
Olynthus in 349 BC, illustrates how old attitudes persisted amid new weapons.
Prof Spawforth said that Ephippus was no fan of the world-conqueror, whose father Philip had destroyed his home city of
Olynthus in 348 BC.
(9) A similar dynamic is at work in Demosthenes' presentation of himself as a leader of a theoria at 21.115, as sponsoring campaigns in Euboea and
Olynthus at 21.161, and passages about Meidias' incompetence in foreign affairs (21.132-5, 163-7, 173).
In the Villa of Good Fortune in the Greek town of
Olynthus an elaborate pebble floor pavement bears a frieze of sixteen maenads, Pan, and a satyr framing the central rectangular image of Dionysos in a panther chariot.
Household and City Organization at
Olynthus, New Haven.
The development of a similar interface (also at www.stoa.org) for Nicholas Cahill's independent study of the household assemblages of
Olynthus promises another opportunity for examining domestic activities from the ancient world.
Thus an asconoid juvenile sponge, an
olynthus, is formed.