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Hero , hero •arrow, barrow, farrow, harrow, Jarrow, marrow, narrow, sparrow, taro, tarot, Varro, yarrow •gabbro • Avogadro • Afro • aggro •macro • cilantro… Hero Of Alexandria , (fl. Alexandria, maybe first century CE),
mathematics, optics, pneumatics, mechanics. For the original article on Hero see DSB, vol. 6.
The main poin… Ajax , Ajax
SOPHOCLES 444 B.C.
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Ajax is the earliest of Sophocles’s surviving plays. It is thought that the play’s first performance took place about… Hector , Hector
Nationality/Culture
Greek/Roman
Pronunciation
HEK-tur
Alternate Names
Appears In
Homer's Iliad, Hyginus's Fabulae, other tales of the Trojan W… Heroism , Heroism
Achilles Greek hero without whom Troy could not have been taken. [Gk. Lit.: Iliad ]
Aeneas Trojan hero; legendary founder of Roman race. [Rom… Heracles , Nationality/Culture
Pronunciation
HAIR-uh-kleez
Alternate Names
Hercules (Roman)
Appears In
Hesiod's Theogony, Apol-lodorus's Bibliotheca
Lineage
Cha…
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