Megaris

[ meg-er-is ]

noun

1. a district in ancient Greece, between the Gulf of Corinth and Saronic Gulf.

Example Sentences

By an ingenious but inconclusive series of arguments he has endeavoured to show that the west pediment contains a personified representation of the whole 118 coast of Attica, from the borders of Megaris to Cape Sunium.

From Project Gutenberg

Hercules killed the great lion there; Mount Aigiplanktos was in Megaris; Strait Saronic: Saronicus Sinus was a bay of the Ægean Sea; Mount Arachnaios, in Argolis. p.

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By 33 to 24, the prelates chose soft-voiced Metropolitan Iakovos,* 68, of Attica and Megaris.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the north these ranges separated it from Bœotia; on the west it was bounded by Megaris and the Saronic Gulf; on the east by the �gean.

From Project Gutenberg

At the end of these five years Megara revolted from the Athenians, and in consequence an invasion of Attica by the Peloponnesians took place, which, though it did not produce any immediate result, was soon followed by the thirty years' truce, in which Athens ceded her conquests in Megaris and Peloponnesus,840 and on the mainland returned within her ancient boundaries; but she preserved the same power over her other confederates.

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