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  1. 2. a traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events.
  2. 4. ancient Greek epic poet,
  3. 5. Black Sea, The Black Sea, also known as the Euxine Sea, is one of the major water bodies and a famous inland sea of the world. This marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, located between Eastern Europe and Western Asia, has become legendary for a long period of time
  4. 6. Ionian Sea, n an arm of the Mediterranean Sea between western Greece and southern Italy. Example of: the sea. a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land
  5. 8. a member of a Hellenic people speaking the Doric ialect of Greek, thought to have entered Greece from the north c. 1100 BC. They settled in Peloponnesus and later colonized Sicily and southern Italy.
  6. 9. The English name Greece and the similar adaptations in other languages derive from the Latin name
  7. 10. the largest Greek island in the Mediterranean; site of the Minoan civilization that reached its peak in 1600 BC. synonyms: Kriti.
  8. 12. an inhabitant of Minoan Crete or member of the Minoan people.
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  1. 1. Aegean Sea, Definitions of Aegean Sea. noun. an arm of the Mediterranean between Greece and Turkey; a main trade route for the ancient civilizations of Crete and Greece and Rome and Persia
  2. 2. an inhabitant of Mycenae or member of the Mycenaean people.
  3. 3. a 10-year war between the Greeks and Trojans brought on by the abduction of Helen by Paris and ended with the destruction of Troy
  4. 7. (Greek: Γραικία), literally meaning 'the land of the Greeks', which was used by Ancient Romans to denote the area of modern-day Greece.
  5. 11. Homer's narrow poems