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Heroön, the Glossary

A heroön or heroon (plural heroa) (pl.), also latinized as heroum, is a shrine dedicated to an ancient Greek or Roman hero and used for the commemoration or cult worship of the hero.^[1]

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Afghanistan

Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia.

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Agrigento

Agrigento (Girgenti or Giurgenti; translit; Agrigentum or Acragas; ’GRGNT; Kirkant, or جرجنت Jirjant) is a city on the southern coast of Sicily, Italy and capital of the province of Agrigento.

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Ai-Khanoum

Ai-Khanoum (meaning Lady Moon; Oyxonim) is the archaeological site of a Hellenistic city in Takhar Province, Afghanistan.

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Alexander the Great

Alexander III of Macedon (Alexandros; 20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), most commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon.

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Ancient Greece (Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity, that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and other territories.

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Ancient Rome

In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.

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Archaic Greece

Archaic Greece was the period in Greek history lasting from to the second Persian invasion of Greece in 480 BC, following the Greek Dark Ages and succeeded by the Classical period.

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Asia (Roman province)

Asia (Ἀσία) was a Roman province covering most of western Anatolia, which was created following the Roman Republic's annexation of the Attalid Kingdom in 133 BC.

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Athens

Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece.

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Augustus

Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus (born Gaius Octavius; 23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14), also known as Octavian (Octavianus), was the founder of the Roman Empire.

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Beehive tomb

A beehive tomb, also known as a tholos tomb (plural tholoi; from Greek θολωτός τάφος, θολωτοί τάφοι, "domed tombs"), is a burial structure characterized by its false dome created by corbelling, the superposition of successively smaller rings of mudbricks or, more often, stones. Heroön and beehive tomb are burial monuments and structures.

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Bronze Age

The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BC.

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Bronze Age sword

Bronze Age swords appeared from around the 17th century BC, in the Black Sea and Aegean regions, as a further development of the dagger.

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Cenotaph

A cenotaph is an empty tomb or a monument erected in honour of a person or group of people whose remains are elsewhere.

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Chamber tomb

A chamber tomb is a tomb for burial used in many different cultures. Heroön and chamber tomb are burial monuments and structures.

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Cimon

Cimon or Kimon (Kimōn Miltiadou Lakiadēs; – 450BC) was an Athenian strategos (general and admiral) and politician.

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Cult (religious practice)

Cult is the care (Latin: cultus) owed to deities and temples, shrines, or churches.

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Doric order

The Doric order is one of the three orders of ancient Greek and later Roman architecture; the other two canonical orders were the Ionic and the Corinthian.

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Ephesus

Ephesus (Éphesos; Efes; may ultimately derive from Apaša) was a city in Ancient Greece on the coast of Ionia, southwest of present-day Selçuk in İzmir Province, Turkey.

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Euboea

Euboea (Εὔβοια Eúboia), also known by its modern spelling Evia, is the second-largest Greek island in area and population, after Crete, and the sixth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Grave goods

Grave goods, in archaeology and anthropology, are items buried along with a body.

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Greece

Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe.

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Greek colonisation

Greek colonisation refers to the expansion of Archaic Greeks, particularly during the 8th–6th centuries BC, across the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea.

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Greek hero cult

Hero cults were one of the most distinctive features of ancient Greek religion.

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Griffin Warrior Tomb

The Griffin Warrior Tomb is a Bronze Age shaft tomb dating to around 1450 BC, near the ancient city of Pylos in Greece.

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Herodotus

Herodotus (Ἡρόδοτος||; BC) was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus, part of the Persian Empire (now Bodrum, Turkey) and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy.

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Heroon at Nemea

The Heroon at Nemea is a part of the larger Panhellenic sanctuary of Zeus in the North-West Argolid. Heroön and Heroon at Nemea are ancient Greek buildings and structures.

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Histories (Herodotus)

The Histories (Ἱστορίαι, Historíai; also known as The History) of Herodotus is considered the founding work of history in Western literature.

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Ionic order

The Ionic order is one of the three canonic orders of classical architecture, the other two being the Doric and the Corinthian.

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Latinisation of names

Latinisation (or Latinization) of names, also known as onomastic Latinisation, is the practice of rendering a non-Latin name in a modern Latin style.

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Lefkandi

Lefkandi is a coastal village on the island of Euboea, Greece.

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Library of Alexandria

The Great Library of Alexandria in Alexandria, Egypt, was one of the largest and most significant libraries of the ancient world.

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Library of Celsus

The Library of Celsus (Βιβλιοθήκη τουΚέλσου) is an ancient Roman building in Ephesus, Anatolia, today located near the modern town of Selçuk, in the İzmir Province of western Turkey.

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Macedonia (Greece)

Macedonia (Makedonía) is a geographic and former administrative region of Greece, in the southern Balkans.

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Metope

In classical architecture, a metope (μετόπη) is a rectangular architectural element that fills the space between two triglyphs in a Doric frieze, which is a decorative band of alternating triglyphs and metopes above the architrave of a building of the Doric order.

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Minoan civilization

The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age culture which was centered on the island of Crete.

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Mycenae

Mycenae (𐀘𐀏𐀙𐀂; Μυκῆναι or Μυκήνη, Mykē̂nai or Mykḗnē) is an archaeological site near Mykines in Argolis, north-eastern Peloponnese, Greece.

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Mycenaean Greece

Mycenaean Greece (or the Mycenaean civilization) was the last phase of the Bronze Age in ancient Greece, spanning the period from approximately 1750 to 1050 BC.

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Naples

Naples (Napoli; Napule) is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's administrative limits as of 2022.

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Nemea

Nemea (Νεμέα; Νεμέη) is an ancient site in the northeastern part of the Peloponnese, in Greece.

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Olympia, Greece

Olympia (Ολυμπία; Ὀλυμπία), officially Archaia Olympia (Αρχαία Ολυμπία), is a small town in Elis on the Peloponnese peninsula in Greece, famous for the nearby archaeological site of the same name.

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Opheltes

In Greek mythology, Opheltes (Ancient Greek: Ὀφέλτης), also called Archemorus (Αρχέμορος, Beginning of Doom), was a son of Lycurgus of Nemea.

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Orestes

In Greek mythology, Orestes or Orestis (Ὀρέστης) was the son of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, and the brother of Electra.

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Paestum

Paestum was a major ancient Greek city on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea, in Magna Graecia.

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Panhellenic sanctuary

A Panhellenic sanctuary was a holy sanctuary, shrine or holy place of worship in Ancient Greece, that was open to all Greeks regardless of the city-state it belonged to.

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Phalaris

Phalaris (Φάλαρις) was the tyrant of Akragas (now Agrigento) in Sicily in Magna Graecia, from approximately 570 to 554 BC.

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Philip II of Macedon

Philip II of Macedon (Φίλιππος; 382 BC – October 336 BC) was the king (basileus) of the ancient kingdom of Macedonia from 359 BC until his death in 336 BC.

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Plural

The plural (sometimes abbreviated as pl., pl, or), in many languages, is one of the values of the grammatical category of number.

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Polis

Polis (πόλις), plural poleis (πόλεις), means ‘city’ in ancient Greek.

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Portico

A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls.

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Promagistrate

In ancient Rome, a promagistrate (pro magistratu) was a person who was granted the power via prorogation to act in place of an ordinary magistrate in the field.

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Prostyle

Prostyle and Prostylos (πρόστυλος), literally meaning “with columns in front”, is an architectural term designating temples (especially Greek and Roman) featuring a row of columns on the front.

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Pylos

Pylos (Πύλος), historically also known as Navarino, is a town and a former municipality in Messenia, Peloponnese, Greece.

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Pythia

Pythia (Πυθία) was the name of the high priestess of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi.

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Roman consul

A consul was the highest elected public official of the Roman Republic (to 27 BC).

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Roman governor

A Roman governor was an official either elected or appointed to be the chief administrator of Roman law throughout one or more of the many provinces constituting the Roman Empire.

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Roman Senate

The Roman Senate (Senātus Rōmānus) was the highest and constituting assembly of ancient Rome and its aristocracy.

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Sagalassos

Sagalassos (Σαγαλασσός), also known as Selgessos (Σελγησσός) and Sagallesos (Σαγαλλησός), is an archaeological site in southwestern Turkey, about 100 km north of Antalya (ancient Attaleia) and 30 km from Burdur and Isparta.

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Seal (emblem)

A seal is a device for making an impression in wax, clay, paper, or some other medium, including an embossment on paper, and is also the impression thus made.

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Shaft tomb

A shaft tomb or shaft grave is a type of deep rectangular burial structure, similar in shape to the much shallower cist grave, containing a floor of pebbles, walls of rubble masonry, and a roof constructed of wooden planks. Heroön and shaft tomb are burial monuments and structures.

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Sicily

Sicily (Sicilia,; Sicilia,, officially Regione Siciliana) is an island in the central Mediterranean Sea, south of the Italian Peninsula in continental Europe and is one of the 20 regions of Italy.

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Sparta

Sparta was a prominent city-state in Laconia in ancient Greece.

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Tegea

Tegea (Τεγέα) was a settlement in ancient Arcadia, and it is also a former municipality in Arcadia, Peloponnese, Greece.

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Theseus

Theseus (Θησεύς) was a divine hero and the founder of Athens from Greek mythology.

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Tiberius Julius Celsus Polemaeanus

Tiberius Julius Celsus Polemaeanus (translit), commonly known as Celsus (– before), was an Ancient Greek military commander and politician of the Roman Empire who became a senator, and served as suffect consul as the colleague of Lucius Stertinius Avitus.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroön

Also known as Greek Heroa, Heroa, Heroum.

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Ancient Greek buildings and structures

Greek hero cult

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