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Aegean Sea |
an arm of the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Turkey. |
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Mediterranean Sea |
a sea surrounded by Africa, Europe, and Asia. |
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Ionian Sea |
an arm of the Mediterranean between S Italy, E Sicily, and Greece. |
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Adraitic Sea |
an arm of the Mediterranean between Italy and the Balkan Peninsula. |
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Delphi |
an ancient city in central Greece, in Phocis: site of an oracle of Apollo |
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Ithaca |
one of the Ionian Islands, off the W coast of Greece: legendary home of Ulysses. 4156; 37 sq. mi. (96 sq. km). |
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Pelopennesus |
a peninsula forming the S part of Greece: seat of the early Mycenaean civilization and the powerful city-states of Argos, Sparta, |
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Thermopylae |
a pass in E Greece, between the cliffs of Mt. Oeta and the Gulf of Lamia: Persian defeat of the Spartans 480 b.c. |
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Hellespont |
ancient name of the Dardanelles. |
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Parthenon |
the temple of Athena Parthenos on the Acropolis at Athens, completed c438 b.c. by Ictinus and Callicrates and decorated by Phidias: regarded as the finest Doric temple. |
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Acropolis |
the citadel or high fortified area of an ancient Greek city. |
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Corinthian |
pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Corinth, in the 7th and early 6th centuries b.c., characterized chiefly by human, animal, and ornamental motifs, painted boldly in a black figure style on a terra-cotta ground, often arranged in tiers around the vase. |
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architecture |
the character or style of building: the architecture of Paris; Romanesque architecture. |
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Dionysus |
God of wine |
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Aristotle |
384–322 b.c., Greek philosopher: pupil of Plato; tutor of Alexander the Great. |
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Macedonia |
kingdom in the Balkan Peninsula, in S Europe: now a region in N Greece, SW Bulgaria, and the Republic of Macedonia. |
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Thucydides |
c460–c400 b.c., Greek historian. |
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Pericles |
c495–429 b.c., Athenian statesman. |
