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A tragedy by Seneca based on the same story that Euripides used but written four hundred years later.
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A tragedy by the first century Roman poet, Ovid; only two lines of the play survive.
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The daughter of Idyia and Helios (the Sun).
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The Medes were inhabitants of Asia Minor and subjects of the Assyrian Empire until circa 709 BCE.
The Medes derived their name from the notorious sorceress, Medea, after she fled Greece and settled in Asia Minor; the Assyrians ruled most of western and central Asia for approximately five hundred years (1229-709 BCE) and were finally deposed by the Medes.
The Medes were the first group to revolt against the Assyrians and, after ruling for four generations, set the stage for the formation of the Persian Empire; the Medes were united by a man named Deiokes (Deioces) who was their first king.
The Medes were composed of six separate tribes: Arizanti, Budii, Busae, Magi, Paratakeni (Parataceni) and Strukhates (Struchates).
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The name that the Greeks used to refer to what we call The Persian War, i.e. the Persian invasion of Greece in 480 BCE.
After the Persians defeated the Medes and usurped their empire, they adopted the Mede style of dress and kept the Magi (a division of the Medes) as advisors and seers; for that reason, and perhaps as a subtle insult, the Greeks continued to refer to the Persians as Medes.
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A sea surrounded by Africa, Europe and Asia with an area of 1,445,000 square miles (3,742,533 square kilometers); greatest known depth is 14,436 feet (4,400 meters).
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The son Oileus, king of Lorkis (Lorcis), and half brother of Lesser Aias.
Medon was killed during the siege of the city of Troy; he had been exiled from Lorkis because he had killed a relative of his step-mother, Eriopis.
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One of the daughters of Phorkys (Phorcys) who were known collectively as the Gorgons.
Medusa’s sisters were named Sthenno, Euryale; Medusa was the only Gorgon who was mortal but anyone who gazed upon her face was turned to stone.
Perhaps three generations before Herakles (Heracles), the hero Perseus was sent by the king of the island of Seriphos, Polydektes (Polydectes), to kill Medusa and cut off her head; Perseus first sought out the sisters of the Gorgons, the Graiai (Gray Sisters), who were gray from birth, shared one tooth and one eye between them (later descriptions of the Graiae include a third sister, Deino, as one of the Graiai); Perseus stole their tooth and eye and, using them as ransom, forced the Graiai to give him the location of the nymphs who had possession of the Cap of Hades (which would make him invisible), a pair of winged sandals (for flying) and a kibisis (a bag to hold Medusa’s head); he later obtained a sickle (or sword) from Hermes and set out to slay Medusa.
With the help of Athene (Athena) he was able to cut off Medusa’s head; after the attack on their sister, Sthenno and Euryale chased Perseus but his flying sandals saved him; as Perseus flew across the Libyan desert the drops of blood from Medusa’s head produced a generation of serpents; also created from the blood of Medusa was the flying horse Pegasos (Pegasus) and the swordsman, Khrysaor (Chrysaor).
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A prefix meaning Great.
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A commander in the Persian military during the reign of Darius I, circa 500 BCE.
Megabates came to prominence when Darius needed a worthy commander to lead an assault on the Greek island of Naxos; the Persian administrator of the city of Miletus, Aristagoras, had suggested that Naxos would be an easy target for Darius and plans were put into motion to send a 200 ships to Naxos.
The fleet gathered near the island of Khios (Chios); when Megabates was making his inspection of the fleet, he found one of the ships unguarded; Megabates had the ship’s captain bound with his head protruding through an oar-hole; Aristagoras appealed for mercy but Megabates insisted on the humiliating punishment; Aristagoras deliberately disobeyed Megabates and freed the errant captain; Megabates’ fury outweighed his desire for conquest and he plotted to disgrace Aristagoras at any cost.
Megabates secretly sent a messenger to Naxos and warned the unsuspecting islanders of the impending invasion; the people of Naxos made hasty preparations and were ready when the Persians arrived; a siege of four months ensued and the Persians realized that they could not afford to continue because their war-chest was empty and the easy victory which Aristagoras had promised was not to be had.
The Persians withdrew from Naxos; Aristagoras was blamed for the fiasco and Megabates had his revenge.
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One of the seven Persians who successfully mounted the revolt which deposed the usurper, Smerdis, from the throne of the Persian Empire.
When the second king of the Persian Empire, Kambyses (Cambyses) was occupied with the subjugation of Egypt, a Mede named Smerdis assumed the role of Kambyses’ dead brother, also named Smerdis, and claimed the throne for himself; Kambyses had secretly arranged the murder of his brother, Smerdis, and therefore knew that the Smerdis on the throne was not his brother but before Kambyses could return to confront the false-Smerdis and reclaim his throne, he accidentally wounded himself with his own sword and died.
The false-Smerdis was very clever at concealing his true identity and never left the palace or allowed high ranking Persians to see him; the false-Smerdis not only bore the same name as Kambyses’ brother but was also physically similar to him, with one exception: the Median Smerdis had no ears; Kambyses had inflicted a punishment on the Mede that required that his ears be lopped off.
One of the seven conspirators, Otanes, was the first to suspect that something was wrong and he devised a plan to determine the truth of the matter; Otanes’ daughter, Phaedyme, was the wife the true-Smerdis and was occasionally required to attend the false-Smerdis as part of his pretense to the throne; Otanes instructed her to secretly feel Smerdis’ head to see if he had any ears; Phaedyme bravely obeyed her father and recognized the false-Smerdis for what he was.
Otanes began to recruit other Persians in what would ultimately be a rebellion; with the help of Megabyzus, Aspathines, Gobryas, Intaphrenes, Darius and Hydarnes, Otanes plotted to murder the false-Smerdis and reclaim the throne of the empire for the Persians; the seven rebels fought their way into the false-king’s chamber and killed him; when the populace found out what had transpired, a wave of violence swept the city and only darkness saved the Medes from complete extermination.
The seven men then debated as to which type of government to establish; the former king, Kambyses, had been cruel and excessive in the extreme but Darius argued for another monarchy and finally won the others to his point of view; Darius was installed as the third king of the Persian Empire in 521 BCE; Megabyzus and the other rebels were granted special privileges in the new kingdom and were allowed to have an audience with the king at any time unless he was with one of his wives.
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One of the Erinys (Furies) who were born of the blood of Ouranos (the Heavens).
Her sisters are: Alekto (Alecto) and Tisiphone; also called: Eumenides (the Kindly Ones) and Semnai (the Holy).
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The wife of Thespius; she and Thespius were the parents of fifty daughters, all of whom bore sons to Herakles (Heracles).
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The illegitimate son of Menelaos (Menelaus) and Helen who, with his brother, Nikostratus (Nicostratus), expelled Helen from Sparta when Menelaos died; he was the half brother of Hermione.
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The daughter of Kreon (Creon), king of the city of Thebes and the wife of Herakles (Heracles).
After the young Herakles settled a quarrel for Kreon he was rewarded by being allowed to marry Megara; Hera, in her zeal to punish Zeus for having fathered Herakles, inflicted Herakles with a fit of madness and he murdered his children; the oldest artwork depicting this scene shows Megara escaping Herakles’ wrath but later versions insist that Megara was also murdered at the hands of the insane Herakles.
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The ancient Dorian city east of the Isthmus of Korinth (Corinth) on the coast of the Saronic Gulf.
The name, Megara, might be rendered as The Temples; originally known as Nisa, the city dates back to before the seventh century BCE and has a long history of colonization; after repeated disputes with Athens, the city lost its independence and, due to its crucial geographic location, the control of the city was in constant dispute.
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A colonial city on the island of Sicily founded by colonists from the Dorian city by the same name.
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A school of philosophy and metaphysics founded in the city of Megara by Eukleides (Eucleides).
The school was founded on the beliefs of Sokrates (Socrates), they essentially believed that the most important aspect of the “real world” was the moral character of the individual.
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A district of ancient Greece between the Gulf of Korinth (Corinth) and the Saronic Gulf.
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The public room in an ancient palace or sometimes meaning the palace itself.
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The Akarnanian (Acarnanian) seer who was with the brave but doomed Greek army at the battle of Thermopylae when the Persians invaded Greece in 480 BCE; he was made immortal by a short poem by Simonides of Keos (Ceos).
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The legendary seer who could understand the speech of animals.
His servants had killed some adult snakes and Melampous, out of pity, took the orphaned baby snakes into his care and, while he was sleeping, the tiny serpents licked his ears thus giving him the unusual power of understanding animal speech.
He was the son of Amythaon and the brother of Bias; when he wanted to marry the beautiful maiden, Pero, her father insisted that any suitor must show his cunning and bravery by stealing the cattle of the mighty Iphiklos (Iphiclos); Melampous was caught by Iphiklos but he was allowed to go free after he rendered his services as a seer to Iphiklos for one year and was finally allowed to marry Pero.
He is also noted as the healer who was called upon by the Argives to cure their women of a strange illness that made them lose their senses; he proposed that they should give him half the kingship in return for his services; at first they refused his seemingly arrogant offer but, when more and more women became afflicted with madness, they agreed to his terms; Melampous was not an easy man to please and he insisted that, in exchange for his services, he and his brother, Bias, both be made kings.
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The daughter of Ares (god of War) who was taken hostage by Herakles (Heracles) when he was trying to complete his Ninth Labor (Retrieve the Belt of the Amazon, Hippolyte); Herakles held Melanippe captive until Hippolyte gave him the Belt (or Girdle) as ransom.
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One of the four sons of Phrixus and Khalkiope (Chalciope).
He and his brothers were raised in Kolkhis (Colchis) but after their father died, he and his brothers left Kolkhis to avenge their father’s ill treatment by king Athamas of Orkhomenos (Orchomenos) and were stranded on the Island of Ares in the Euxine (Black Sea); they were rescued from the island by the Argonauts; he and his brothers joined the crew of the Argo and returned to Kolkhis.
His brothers were: Kytissoros (Cytissoros), Phrontis and Argus.
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The collective name for the sisters of Meleagros (Meleager) who were transformed into guinea hens by Artemis in order to relieve their grief over the death of their brother.
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The son of Oineus and Althaia; the husband of Kleopatra (Cleopatra).
There are several interesting stories that revolve around Meleagros:
When he was born, Meleagros was destined to die when the wood in the fireplace burned away; as a loving mother, Althaia, had taken the wood from the fireplace and preserved it so that her son might have a long life; when Meleagros killed her brother(s), she took the wood she had hidden at Meleagros’ birth and burned it; Meleagros died.
His name may also be rendered as Meleagrus.
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One of the original three Muses; the Muse of Meditation.
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The nymphs born from the blood of Ouranos (the Heavens) at the time of his mutilation at the hands of his son, Kronos (Cronos); they are collectively called the Nymphs of the Ash Trees.
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The consort of Poseidon (lord of the Sea) and the mother of king Amykos (Amycos).
Melie is a daughter of Okeanos (Ocean) but her name means Ash-Tree and therefore she is considered a nymph; she dwells on the peninsula of Bithynia; she also had children by Apollon and several other Immortals.
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A tribe in Thrake (Thrace) whose name literally means Millet-Eaters.
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One of the priestesses at Delphi whose name literally means Bee; she is the sister of Amathea and, as a child, was nourished by Zeus with honey.
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The wife of the tyrant of the city of Korinth (Corinth), Periander; she was the daughter of Prokles (Procles) from the island of Kerkyra (Corcyra); she was murdered by her husband Periander circa 600 BCE.
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Priestesses of Artemis; the Bee-Keepers.
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One of the fifty daughters of Nereus and Doris collectively known as the Nereids, i.e. the daughters of the Nereus.
In Argonautika she is cited as the consort of Herakles (Heracles) and the mother of Hyllos.
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A name for Persephone which implies Honey-Like.
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One of the Thirty Tyrants elected to rule the city of Athens after the end of the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BCE).
Having lost the war to the Spartans, the citizens of Athens elected thirty men to lead the new post-war government; these men became known as the Thirty Tyrants; the short lived government they comprised was an oligarchy.
The tyrants immediately began to prosecute Athenians who had been Spartan informers and collaborators during the long, hard war; the punishment of the guilty seemed appropriate to the common citizens and aristocrats alike but it soon became clear that the executions and banishments were going beyond the bounds of necessity or prudence; open hostilities soon developed between members of the Thirty and their authority and rule came to an end after one year.
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An Okeanid, i.e. one of the three thousand daughters of Okeanos (Ocean) and Tethys.
Zeus gave the Okeanids, Apollon and the Rivers the special obligation of having the young in their keeping.
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An island of the Kyklades (Cyclades) Group in the southwestern Aegean Sea.
The island was initially settled by the Phoenicians prior to the arrival of the Dorians who arrived in the twelfth century BCE; in 416 BCE the Athenians brutally captured the island and replaced the slain and enslaved populace with Athenian colonists.
The island is 4,499 square miles (11,652 square kilometers) in area; the statue of Venus Di Milo was found there.
The name of the island might have been derived from the Phoenicians navigator, Melos; the island is also called Milo and Milos.
Approximate east longitude 24.15 and north latitude 36.41.
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One of the nine Muses; the Songstress; sometimes called the Muse of Tragedy.
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The son of Eos (Dawn) and Tithonos; he fought on the side of the Trojans during the siege of Troy and was killed by Akhilleus (Achilles).
His name means Steadfast; he is described as an Ethiopian by Homer in The Iliad and is mentioned by the sixth century CE Greek writer, Proklos (Proclus) where he is described in the poem, Aethiopis, which was once part of the Epic Cycle, i.e. poems about the fall of Troy; a colossal bronze statue of Memnon was erected at the city of Thebes as a testament to his popularity.
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The wife of the bull-man, Epaphos (Epaphos); mother of the nymph, Libya; the grand-daughter of the heifer maiden, Io, and Zeus; the first Egyptian capital was named after her.
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An Egyptian city located near the Nile river in Lower Egypt; named after the grand-daughter of the heifer maiden, Io, and Zeus.
Memphis was the original capital of the united Upper and Lower Egypt; founded circa 3100 BCE.
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A Greek comic poet circa 342-292 BCE; fragments of ten plays survive but only four are, more or less, complete.
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The Moon; the physical Moon as opposed to the goddess of the Moon, Semele.
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The modern name for the river Skamandros (Scamander) in northwest Asia Minor flowing across the Trojan plain into the Dardanelles; 60 miles (155 kilometers) in length.
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The Egyptian god that the Greeks equated with Pan.
Herodotus (Histories, book 2, chapter 46) explained that the Egyptians did not sacrifice goats because of their worship of Mendes, i.e. Pan, the goat-god; Mendes was one of the original eight gods worshiped by the Egyptians and was introduced into the Greek religion by the Egyptians.
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The king of Sparta at the time of the Trojan War.
When his wife, Helen, fled to Troy with Alexandros (Paris), Menelaos appealed to his brother, Agamemnon, to assemble an army to attack Troy and retrieve his wife and her dowry; he and Agamemnon were the sons of Atreus; his name means Withstanding-Men.
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An Okeanid, i.e. one of the three thousand daughters of Okeanos (Ocean) and Tethys; her name might mean Abider.
Zeus gave the Okeanids, Apollon and the Rivers the special obligation of having the young in their keeping.
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A daughter of Orion who, with her sister Metiokhe (Metioche), offered herself as a sacrifice to end a plague in Boeotia.
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One of the fifty daughters of Nereus and Doris collectively known as the Nereids, i.e. the daughters of the Nereus.
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A son of the Titan, Iapetos and the Okeanid, Klymene (Clymene); the brother of Prometheus, Epimetheus and Atlas.
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The son of Aktor and Aegina; one of the Argonauts; the father of the Greek hero, Patroklos (Patroclus).
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A captain of the Taphians; Athene (Athena) assumed his form when she urged Telemakhos (Telemachus) to leave Ithaka (Ithaca) and search for his father, Odysseus.
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The leader of the Kikones (Cicones) during the siege of Troy.
When the Greeks and the Trojans were fighting over the dead body of the Greek hero, Patroklos (Patroclus), Apollon assumed the guise of Mentes and urged Hektor (Hector) to give up his attempts to capture Akhilleus’ (Achilles’) chariot horses and fight for the body of Patroklos and the armor he was wearing.
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The loyal advisor and companion of Odysseus.
Mentor undertook the care and education of Odysseus’ son, Telemakhos (Telemachus), while Odysseus was at the Trojan War; Athene (Athena) often took on the form of Mentor when she appeared to Telemakhos.
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The queen of Korinth (Corinth) at the time when Oedipus was brought to the kingdom as an orphan.
Merope and her husband, king Polybos, raised Oedipus as their son.
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One of the seven daughters of Atlas known as the Pleiades.
The hunter, Orion, relentlessly pursued the girls until they were changed into pigeons by Zeus and eventually put into the night sky as a constellation.
Merope’s sisters are: Alkyone, Asterope, Elektra (Electra), Kelaeno (Celaeno), Maia, and Taygete.
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The wife of Kresphontes (Cresphontes) who, with her son Aepytus, killed Polyphontes and recovered the throne of Messenia.
Both Polyphontes and Kresphontes were the sons of Herakles (Heracles); Polyphontes murdered Kresphontes to become the king of Messenia and married Merope to prove his domination; Aepytus was saved from Polyphontes’ murderous plots when Merope helped him flee the country; when Aepytus returned to Messenia, he and Merope took their revenge by killing Polyphontes and thus reclaiming the throne.
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The daughter of Oenopion of the island of Khios (Chios); when the hunter, Orion, became drunk and offended Merope, Oenopion blinded Orion; after Orion had been healed of his blindness, he returned to Khios to seek revenge but Oenopion hid and avoided his due punishment.
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A seer and the king of Perkote (Percote) who foretold, but could not prevent, the death of his sons during the siege of Troy; the father of Kleite (Cleite).
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The king of the island of Kos (Cos); husband of the nymph, Ethemea, and father of Eumelus.
When Ethemea was slain by the goddess Artemis for irreverence, Merops became so distraught that he tried to kill himself but was transformed into an eagle by Hera and placed among the stars.
In the play, Helen by Euripides, Helen compares herself to Merops and declares that he is lucky because he has found an end to his suffering but her misery seems eternal.
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A king of the Ethiopians (Aithiopians) and husband of Klymene (Clymene); Helios (the Sun) seduced Klymene and became the father of the reckless son, Phaethon.
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The land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers; the name literally means “between the waters,” i.e. meso = between and potamia = waters.
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An ancient city on the island of Sicily now known as Messina; located on the northeastern tip of the island on the Strait of Messina.
Approximate east longitude 15.35 and north latitude 38.15.
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An ancient city in the southwestern section of the Peloponnesian Peninsula.
Messene was located slightly north and west of Sparta; Messene was the capital of ancient Messenia.
Approximate east longitude 21.57 and north latitude 37.11.
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A division of ancient Greece on the southwestern Peloponnesian Peninsula.
Messenia was bounded on the east by the district of Lakonia (Laconia) and on the north by Arkadia (Arcadia); the principal city was Messene.
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The second month of the year in Attika (Attica) approximately comparable to the last half of August and the first half of September.
Meta = among and geition = neighbor, thus Metageitnion was the month of mixing with ones neighbors.
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The wife of Keleos (Celeos) and the mother of Demophoon.
After Persephone was kidnapped by Hades (lord of the Underworld), her mother, Demeter wandered the countryside disguised as an old woman and finally ended up in the city of Eleusis.
Metaneira hired Demeter as the governess for her young son but when Metaneira caught Demeter immortalizing her son, Demophoon, by placing him in the fireplace, Demeter revealed her divinity and established her shrine at Eleusis.
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An epitaph for Zeus meaning All-Wise.
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A daughter of Orion who, with her sister Menippe, offered herself as a sacrifice to end a plague in Boeotia.
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The illegitimate son of Miltiades the Younger.
Metiokhus’ father, Miltiades, had been the tyrant of the Khersonese (Chersonese) but (circa 493 BCE) he was forced to flee when the Phoenicians were preparing an invasion.
Miltiades loaded his possessions on to five warships and sailed for Athens; Metiokhus was captain of one of the ships and was captured by the Phoenicians and taken prisoner.
The Phoenicians gave Metiokhus to the Persian king, Darius, to gain favor but Darius did Metiokhus no harm; instead, he gave the young man a house, possessions and a Persian wife; he lived the rest of his life in Persia.
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An Okeanid, i.e. one of the three thousand daughters of Okeanos (Ocean) and Tethys.
Metis was the wisest of all the mortals and Immortals; her name means Wisdom; with Zeus, she was the mother of Athene (Athena) and supplied the armor in which Athene was born.
Zeus gave the Okeanids, Apollon and the Rivers the special obligation of having the young in their keeping.
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The square spaces between the triglyphs of a Doric frieze, either plain or adorned with carved work; from the Greek word Metope, i.e. meta = between and ope = opening.
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A measure or rule; that by which anything is measured, liquid, solid, linear, etc.
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The temple of Kybele (Cybele) at Athens which was built circa 430 BCE in an attempt to appease the Mother of Gods and free Athens from the plague which was decimating the population; named from the root word for Mother (metra).
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The infamous king of Phrygia in Asia Minor.
Midas was the son of Gordius (creator of the Gordian Knot), the father of Gordias and the grandfather of Adrastus.
While Midas was entertaining the companion of Dionysus, Silenus, he was granted a wish; Midas foolishly wished that everything he touched would be turned to gold; when Midas found that his food was also turned to gold, he renounced the wish and by washing his hands in the river Paktolus (Pactolus) he lost the golden touch; the river Paktolus has had golden sand ever since.
Midas also served as the judge of a musical contest in which Apollon was a contestant; Midas did not give Apollon the first prize and was punished by having his ears changed into those of an ass; Midas concealed the disgraceful ears from everyone except his barber who was sworn to secrecy; the barber, of course, could not keep such a secret so he dug a hole in the ground and whispered the secret into the hole; the reeds that grew from that hole speak the secret of Midas’ ears whenever the wind blows.
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Greek comedy from the fourth century BCE specifically from Attika (Attica).
The few extant fragments are characterized chiefly by a realistic depiction of everyday life.
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Pertaining to the school of philosophers from Miletus in the late seventh to the early fifth century BCE which was primarily concerned with the nature of matter and change.
Notable participants were: Thales, Anaximander and Anaximenes.
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A Greek port city which was founded by the Ionians in Karia (Caria) on the coast of the Aegean Sea in Asia Minor near the Maeander River.
After the early seventh century BCE Miletus was instrumental in the colonization of the Hellespont and the area around the Euxine (Black Sea); Miletus was ideally situated to trade with the Greek mainland and the Greek colonies of Asia Minor.
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The son of Apollon and the nymph, Aria; the founder of the city of Miletus.
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M to Medea 2 Medea 3 to Miletus 2 Milmas to Mytilene
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