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Greece Flashcards

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kalos kagathos

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a beautiful and good man; a gentleman in war

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Taenarum

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close to the southern point of Laconia; green, red and black marble and purple dye from snails

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Laconia

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southern part of the Peloponnese; Sparta is the capital

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Hellespont

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ancient name for the Dardanelles; strait in NW Turkey; grain came through here from the Black Sea

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Chios

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large Greek island off the coast of Turkey

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gene

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clan containing kinfolk; Cleisthenes did away with them in 508

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Tantalus

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father of Niobe, son of Zeus; he killed his child, turned him into a stew and ate him; his punishment was being held in chin-deep water with fruit trees just out of his reach

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Leto

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mother of Artemis and Apollo

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Phaedra

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one of Heracles’ wives

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Polemarch

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the senior military commander and chief judicial authority in cases involving foreigners

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