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Tanagra definition

tănə-grə, tə-năgrə
(place) Ancient Greek town in Boeotia, known for the terra cotta figurines made there.
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A city in southeastern Viotia prefecture Greece.
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Used to denote a style of terracotta statuary from 5th-3rd centuries BCE.
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An ancient city of east-central Greece in eastern Boeotia. The Spartans defeated Athenian forces here (457 bc ).
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  • Thus in the Persian Wars, it deprived Athens of the wisdom of Xanthippus and Aristides, while at the battle of Tanagra and perhaps at the time of the Egyptian expedition the assistance of Cimon was lacking.

  • It also possesses the famous collection of prehistoric antiquities found by Schliemann at Tiryns and Mycenae, other " Mycenaean " objects discovered at Nauplia and in Attica, as well as the still earlier remains excavated by Tsountas in the Cyclades and by the British School at Phylakopi in Melos; terra-cottas from Tanagra and Asia immense building, however, which was restored in 1896 and the following years, was that constructed in Pentelic marble about A.D.

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