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| Iliad | epic poem about heroes in the Trojan War |
| Odyssey | epic poem about the 10 years of wandering of Odysseus after the Trojan War |
| Homer | Greek poet who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey |
| Trojan War | a 10-year war fought by a Greek king against the city-state of Troy to get back his wife, Helen, who was stolen by Paris, Prince of Troy |
| Trojan Horse | large, hollow wooden horse in which Greek soldiers hid in order to gain entrance into Troy |
| Aegean Sea | sea east of Greece |
| Mediterranean Sea | large sea south of Greece |
| Peloponnesus | peninsula that makes up the southern part of Greece |
| Greece | a peninsula country in SE Europe |
| Crete | island south of the Greek mainland where the first major civilization began |
| King Minos | leader of the Minoan people on Crete |
| Minoan | first Greek civilization that lived on the island of Crete |
