The only other personal reference is to his victory in a poetical contest at the funeral games of Amphidamas at Chalcis in Euboea, where he won the prize, a tripod, which he dedicated to the Muses of Helicon ("Works and Days", 651-9).
Critics from Plutarch downwards have almost unanimously rejected the lines 654-662, on the ground that Hesiod's Amphidamas is the hero of the Lelantine Wars between Chalcis and Eretria, whose death may be placed circa 705 B.
After the contest at Chalcis, Hesiod went to Delphi and there was warned that the `issue of death should overtake him in the fair grove of Nemean Zeus.
And at Syracuse, the victory in their war with the Athenians being owing to the common people, they changed their free state into a democracy: and at
Chalcis, the people having taken off the tyrant Phocis, together with the nobles, immediately seized the government: and at Ambracia also the people, having expelled the tyrant Periander, with his party, placed the supreme power in themselves.
The fierce Abantes held Euboea with its cities, Chalcis, Eretria, Histiaea rich in vines, Cerinthus upon the sea, and the rock-perched town of Dium; with them were also the men of Carystus and Styra; Elephenor of the race of Mars was in command of these; he was son of Chalcodon, and chief over all the Abantes.
Thoas, son of Andraemon, commanded the Aetolians, who dwelt in Pleuron, Olenus, Pylene, Chalcis by the sea, and rocky Calydon, for the great king Oeneus had now no sons living, and was himself dead, as was also golden-haired Meleager, who had been set over the Aetolians to be their king.
An only child of farmers in the area of Nisibis, he deserts his parents, who pressed him to marry, and becomes a monk in the desert of
Chalcis.
Aristotle was previously thought to be buried in
Chalcis, where he died aged 62, but archaeologists now believe the people of Stagira moved his ashes.
of a digestive problem in
Chalcis about 50 miles north of Athens.
com)-- JoinedHands, a non-profit organization, is hosting a free concert on May 7th, 2016 at 8:00 PM (UTS+3) at the castle in Karampampa, in
Chalcis.
43) Il s'agit de Lycophron de
Chalcis en Eubee, poete du IVe siecle av.
He is not one to resist the resonance of a mid-15th century sallet or helmet from the Venetian fortress of
Chalcis on the Aegean island of Negroponte (present-day Euboea), for instance.
