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- 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.
- 4. ancient Greek epic poet,
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 9. The English name Greece and the similar adaptations in other languages derive from the Latin name
- 10. the largest Greek island in the Mediterranean; site of the Minoan civilization that reached its peak in 1600 BC. synonyms: Kriti.
- 12. an inhabitant of Minoan Crete or member of the Minoan people.
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- 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. an inhabitant of Mycenae or member of the Mycenaean people.
- 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
- 7. (Greek: Γραικία), literally meaning 'the land of the Greeks', which was used by Ancient Romans to denote the area of modern-day Greece.
- 11. Homer's narrow poems
