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Abydos| Ancient city in Upper Egypt, cult centre of Osiris and burial place of the kings of the 1st and 2nd dynasties. There are remains from all periods. The well-preserved Great Temple of Seti I, dating from about 1300 BC, contains the ‘Table of Abydos’, a list of all the kings preceding Seti, which is of great historical importance. |
Abydos| Ancient town on the Asian shore of the Hellespont or Dardanelles in what is now Turkey. Facing it on the European side was Sestos. It was here that in 480 BC the Persian king Xerxes built his bridge of boats to enable his army to cross. Abydos is also the scene of the legend of Hero and Leander. |
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| And this will always happen in every oligarchy where the magistrates do not elect themselves, but are chosen out of men either of great fortune or certain ranks, by the soldiers or by the people; as was the custom at Abydos. They that dwelt about Percote and Practius, with Sestos, Abydos, and Arisbe--these were led by Asius, son of Hyrtacus, a brave commander--Asius, the son of Hyrtacus, whom his powerful dark bay steeds, of the breed that comes from the river Selleis, had brought from Arisbe. He followed up his first literary success by publishing during the next four years his brief and vigorous metrical romances, most of them Eastern in setting, 'The Giaour' (pronounced by Byron 'Jower'), 'The Bride of Abydos,' 'The Corsair,' 'Lara,' 'The Siege of Corinth,' and 'Parisina. |