The Prophecy of Fates

Glossary For The Previous Chapters

Agamemnon
- a King of Mycenae in Greek mythology, and the brother of Menelaus. Leader of the Greek army in the Trojan War of Homer's Illiad.

Arges
- one of the three Hesiodic Cyclopes in Greek mythology. He was elsewhere called Acmonides or Pyracmon. His name means 'bright' and represents the brightness from lightning.

Brontes
- one of the three Hesiodic Cyclopes in Greek mythology whose name means 'thunder.'

Calydonian Boar
- a monster in Greek mythology that existed during the Olympian Age sent by goddess Artemis to destroy the region of Calydon.

Chimera
- a bizarre fire-breathing creature with the body and head of a lion, a goat's head rising from its back, the udders of a goat, and a serpent for a tail which ravaged the countryside of Lycia in Anatolia.

Clytemnestra
- was the wife of Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, and the sister of Helen of Troy.

Endymion
- a beautiful youth who spent much of his life in perpetual sleep and was loved by Selene, the goddess of the moon, who visited him every night in a cave on Mount Latmus in Caria; she bore him 50 daughters.

Giants
- were a tribe of a hundred giants born of the earth-goddess Gaia who waged war on the gods and were destroyed in the ensuing battle.

Hecatonshires
- also called as the 'Centimanes' or the 'Hundred-handed Ones.' Three monstrous giants, of enormous size and strength, with fifty heads and one hundred arms.

Iphigenia
- a daughter of King Agamemnon and Queen Clytemnestra, and thus a princess of Mycenae.

Island of Seriphus
- is where Danaë and her infant son Perseus washed ashore after her father Acrisius, in response to an oracle that his own grandson would kill him, set them adrift at sea in a wooden chest.

Lamia
- was a child-eating monster and, in later tradition, was regarded as a type of night-haunting spirit.

Manticore
- was a man-eating, Persian monster with the body of a lion, the face of a man, and a spike-tipped, arrow-shooting tail. The name Manticore was derived from the Persian word for 'man-eater.'

Odontotyrannos
- is a three horned beast said to have attacked Alexander the Great and his men at their camp in India that had a black, horse-like head, with three horns protruding from its forehead, and exceeded the size of an elephant.

Perseus
- is the legendary founder of Mycenae and of the Perseid dynasty. He was, alongside Cadmus and Bellerophon, the greatest Greek hero and slayer of monsters before the days of Heracles. He beheaded the Gorgon Medusa for Polydectes and saved Andromeda from the sea monster Cetus.

Spartoi
- are a mythical people who sprang up from the dragon's teeth sown by Cadmus and were believed to be the ancestors of the Theban nobility.

Steropes
- one of the three Hesiodic Cyclopes in Greek mythology. He was the son of Uranus and Gaia and the brother of two other Cyclopes; Brontes and Arges. 'Sterope' means 'lightning.'

The Age of Heroes
- The Greek Heroic Age, in mythology, is the period between the coming of the Greeks to Thessaly and the Greek return from Troy. The period spans roughly six generations; the heroes denoted by the term are superhuman, though not divine, and are celebrated in the literature of Homer.

The Golden Age
- denotes a period of primordial peace, harmony, stability, and prosperity. In classical Greek mythology, the Golden Age was presided over by the leading Titan Cronus.

The Great Library of Alexandria
- was one of the largest and most significant libraries of the ancient world found in Alexandria, Egypt. The Library was part of a larger research institution called the Mouseion, which was dedicated to the Muses, the nine goddesses of the arts.

The Lost City of Atlantis
- is a fictional island mentioned in an allegory on the hubris of nations in Plato's works Timaeus and Critias, wherein it represents the antagonist naval power that besieges 'Ancient Athens', the pseudo-historic embodiment of Plato's ideal state in The Republic.

Themiskyra
- was the capital city of the Amazons. Also spelled Themiscyra, was an ancient Greek town on the Themiscyra plain located near the mouth of the modern Terme River, which is now part of modern day Turkey

Trajan Forum
- was the last of the Imperial fora to be constructed in ancient Rome. The architect Apollodorus of Damascus oversaw its construction.

Typhon
- youngest son of Gaea and Tartarus. He was described as a grisly monster with a hundred dragons' heads who was conquered and cast into the underworld by Zeus.

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