Crossword-Solution: MILETUS
We have 10 clues for the answer “MILETUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Great, ruined Asia Minor city | 1 answer |
| Home of philosophers Thales and Anaximander | 1 answer |
| CARIAN city (Asia Minor) | 2 answers |
| ANAXIMANDER | 3 answers |
| ANCIENT Asia Minor (coastal) city | 13 answers |
| ASIA Minor coastal city (hist.) | 13 answers |
| IONIAN city/town, ancient | 13 answers |
| IONIAN coastal city | 13 answers |
| WESTERN Asia Minor city/coastal city (hist.) | 13 answers |
| son of Apollo | 37 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RAETE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MILETUS (5)
The _Titanomachy_, ascribed both to Eumelus of Corinth and to Arctinus of Miletus, began with a kind of Theogony which told of the union of Heaven and Earth and of their offspring the Cyclopes and the Hundred-handed Giants.
Itymoneus he slew, and Hippasus' son Agelaus: from Miletus brought they war Against the Danaan men by Nastes led, The god-like, and Amphimachus mighty-souled.
Seven or eight are totally destroyed: Hypæpe, Tralles, Laodicea, Hium, Halicarnassus, Miletus, Ephesus, and we may add Sardes.
Lydia and Caria, Sardes and Miletus, were purified with the blood of the obstinate Quartodecimans; and the edict of the emperor, or rather of the patriarch, enumerates three-and-twenty degrees and denominations in the guilt and punishment of heresy.
Two thousand years ago, a number of Greek and Roman philosophers (notably Thales of Miletus and Pliny who was killed while trying to study the eruption of Vesuvius of the year 79 when Pompeii and Herculaneum were buried beneath the ashes) had noticed the strange antics of bits of straw and of feather which were held near a piece of amber which was being rubbed with a bit of wool.
Quotes with MILETUS (1)
For ages men had used sticks to club and spear each other — Anaximander of Miletus used the stick to measure time.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, WSJ.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1985–2002).