Septuagint: Greek translation of the Jewish Bible, made in the third century BCE for the Jews living in the Diaspora. The name means "translation by seventy men".
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Sidon (Hebrew: צִידוֹן, Ṣîdôn; Greek: Σιδών): port in Phoenicia, modern Ṣaydā.Bronze Age
Sidon-Dakerman, Middle Bronze jar
Situated on a promontory halfway between…
Smintheum: temple of Apollo in the southwestern Troad, modern Gülpinar.The shrine of Apollo Smintheus (Σμινθεύς, "destroyer of mice") is mentioned by Homer as the temple where Chryses was priest.note[Homer, Iliad 1.39.] The town next to the temple was sometimes called…
Carthage (Phoenician Kart hadašt, "new city"): important ancient city, close to modern Tunis.Texts on Carthage
The foundation legend (by Justin)
The story of Hanno
The battle of Himera
Carthage's Constitution (Aristotle)
The Carthaginian-Syracusan peace of 405 (Diodorus)
The Philaeni (Sallust)
Timoleon's defeat of the Carthaginians (Plutarch)
The First…
Sozomen was a Christian author, who lived in the first half of the fifth century and wrote an Ecclesiastical History. The following story (5.10) may be true, although the remarks about sacred prostitution are probably innuendo. The translator is unknown.