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leonoun(chess) A fairy chess piece which moves analogously to the xiangqi cannon and queen, moving either orthogonally or diagonally and must hop over a piece of either side to capture.
nicomedianoun(historical) Former name of Izmit: a city in Turkey; the ancient capital of Bithynia.
helenusnoun(Greek mythology) the son of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy, the twin brother of the prophetess Cassandra.
xerxesnoun(historical) Xerxes I, a Persian king of the Achaemenid dynasty who reigned 485-465 BC.
alcibiadesnounA transliteration of the Ancient Greek male given name Ἀλκιβιάδης (Alkibiádēs), notably borne by Alcibiades (450–404 B.C.), a prominent Athenian statesman, orator, and general.
halicarnassusnounAn ancient Greek city on the southwest coast of Caria, Anatolia, in modern-day Turkey.
diomedesnoun(Greek mythology) a hero in Greek mythology, mostly known for his participation in the Trojan War
ramjetnoun(aeronautics) A jet engine in which forward motion forces air into an inlet, compressing it (as opposed to having a pump type device compressing the air for combustion with fuel), and where combustion is subsonic.
tetrarchnounA governor or ruler of a quarter of a country, especially of a fourth part of a province in or client state of Ancient Rome.
trojan warnoun(Greek mythology) A mythological war and siege as described in Homer's Iliad.
leonidasnounKing Leonidas I of Sparta; he was killed at the Battle of Thermopylae, 480BC.
cepheusnoun(astronomy) A circumpolar constellation of the northern sky, located between Draco and Cassiopeia and representing the king Cepheus from Greek myth. It contains the star Alderamin.
dionysiusnounA transliteration of the Ancient Greek male given name Διονύσιος (Dionúsios).
phrygianoun(historical) A geographic region and ancient kingdom in the west central part of Asia Minor, in what is now modern-day Turkey.
seleucusnounA male given name from Ancient Greek, particularly Seleucus I Nicator, founder of the Seleucid Empire.
pyrrhusnounAncient Greek given name, particularly worn by the king of Epirus (319-272 BC) who defeated Romans in several battles, but sustained heavy losses, from which the term Pyrrhic victory was coined.
odysseusnoun(Greek mythology) The son of Laertes and Anticlea and father of Telemachus. A Greek leader during the Trojan War, he was responsible for the Trojan horse. He was also king of Ithaca, hero of the Iliad and protagonist of the Odyssey.
huitzilopochtlinounAn important god of the Mexica.
orestesnoun(Greek mythology) The son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, who killed his mother, avenging his father's death, and was then pursued by the Furies.
argivenoun(Ancient Greece, poetic) In the Homeric Iliad and Odyssey, and in later classical epics, an alternate name for an Achaean, or Greek in general.

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