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  • n  an ancient Greek city on the southwestern coast of Asia Minor in what is now Turkey; site of the mausoleum at Halicarnassus
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  • ;300: Rise of an Empire; And Its Ahistorical Depiction Of Xerxes The Great And Queen Artemisia
    The historian Herodotus of Halicarnassus wrote in Book 7, Chapter 187 that: ";Amongst all these immense numbers there was not a man who, for stature and noble bearing, was more worthy than Xerxes to wield so vast a power."; Yet, the Warner Bros.' movies 300, and its followup 300: Rise of an Empire"; which premiered last week, elected to characterize the Achaemenid king based on the eponymous ...
    March 16, 2014 - Payvand Iran News

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