Agamemnon : king of Mycenae and Argos, brother of

Menelaus and commander of the Greeks at the siège of Troy.

24. Némée : Nemea was the name of a deep valley of Argolis. It possessed a sacred grove with a magnificent temple of Zeus, and was celebrated for its games (Xemean Games), one of the great national festivals of the Greeks. In this valley Hercules killed the Nemean lion.

27. l'Acro-Corinthe : the citadel of Corinth stood on a mountain 11,386 feet high, and was one of the strongest natural fortifications in the world. Aphrodite's temple at Corinth was the oldest and the holiest in Greece.

46. 7. le golfe de Lépante : the Ottoman fleet was defeated and

destroyed there in 1571 by Don John of Austria.

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46. 10. l'Hélicon : Helicou, nov.- called Palaeo-Voimo, a mountain in Boeotia, cousecrated to tlie Muses.

le Parnasse : a mountain, now called Liakoiira, in Phocis, 3000 feet high, consecrated to Apollo and the Muses. On its Southern slope lay Delphi, the seat of the famous oracle. Its highest peak v/as the scène of the orgies of the "worship of Dionysus (Bacchus).

11. la mer Saronique : the part of the Aegean 8ea round the point of Argolis at Cape Sunium, enclosing the islands of Salamis and Aegina.

14. au cap Colonne : Cape Colonna {Siaimm Promontoriuni) forms the southmost point of Attica, and is crowned by the ruins of a temple of Minerva. Thirteen of the columns of the temple are still standing, -SYhence the modem name of the cape.

24. la Sicyonie : Sicyon, near the Giilf of Corinth, "was famous for its schools of sculpture and jîainting.

33. Mégare : Megara on the isthmus of Corinth, chief town of Megaris.