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| bard | (formerly) a person who composed and recited epic or heroic poems |
| lyre | a small harp like musical instrument |
| epic | pertaining to a long poetic composition |
| Homer | 19th-century B. C. epic poet |
| Iliad | a Greek epic poem describing the siege of Troy, ascribed to Homer.
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| Menelaus | a legendary king of Sparta, the brother of Agamemnon |
| Helen | the beautiful daughter of Zeus and Leda and wife of Menelaus, whose abduction by Paris was the cause of the Trojan War |
| Sparta | an ancient city in S Greece: the capital of Laconia and the chief city of the Peloponnesus |
| Agamemnon | a legendary king of Mycenae, the son of Atreus and brother of Menelaus, who led the Greeks in the Trojan War |
| soothsayer | a person who foretells events |
| Achilles | the greatest Greek warrior in the Trojan War and hero of the lliad, killed when Paris wounded him in the heel |
| Hector | son of Priam and greatest Trojan hero in the Trojan War, in the course of which he was killed by Achilles |
| Patroclus | a friend of Achilles who was slain by Hector at Troy |
| Priam | a legendary king of Troy, the father of Paris, Cassandra, and Hector.
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| Troy | an ancient ruined city in NW Asia Minor: |
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Odyssey
Odyssey
Odyssey | an epic poem attributed to Homer, describing Odysseus's adventures in his ten-year attempt to retum home
to Ithaca after the Trojan War |
| Ithaca | one of the lonian Islands, off the W
coast of Greece: legendary home of Ulysses. |
| Circe | an enchantress of Greek myth who turned
Odysseus ' companions into swine.
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| Cyclops | any of a group of giants of Greek myth,
having a single round eye |
| Penelope | the wife of Odysseus, who remained
faithful to him during his long absence
at Troy.
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