※Apollo is one of the most important and complex of Olympian and Roman mylothology.
He is the god of knowledge,healing,sport and the leader of the nine Muses.
※Zeus ia the "Father of God and men" He is the god of sky and thunder in Greek mythology. His symbols are thunderbolt,eagle,bull and oak.
※Delphi is both an archaeological site and a mordern town in Greece.
In myths,the site of Delphi was believed to be determined by Zeus when he sought to find the centre of his "Grandmother Earth"
※The Pythia,commonly known as the Oracle of Delphi,was the name of any priestess throughout the history of Temple of Apollo at Delphi.
※Chryseis was a Trojan woman,the daughter of Chryses.In the first book of the Iliad,Agamemnon enslaves her,whom he admits is finer than his own wife,as a war prize and refuses to allow her father,a priest to Apollo,to ransom her.
※Dionysus is the god of the grape harvest,winemaking and wine,of ritual madess,fertility,theatre and religious ecstasy in Greek mythology.
※oracle was a person or agency consiedered to provide wise counsel or prophetic predictions or precognition of the future,inspired by the gods.The most important oracles of Greek antiquity were Pythia,priestess to Apollo at Delphi.
※The dithyramb was an ancient Greek hymn sung and danced in honor of Dionysus,the god of wine and fertility.
The term was also used as an epithet of the god.
penta-:5
the Pentagon:the Pentagon,the building in Washington DC from which the army, navy etc of the US are controlled, or the military officers who work in this building.
pentathlon:a sports event involving five different sports
pentangular:of or ralating to or shaped like a pentagon.
hexa-(hex-):6
hexagon:a shape with six sides e.g.My sister draws a hexagon and a circle on her paper.
hexose:a monosaccharide that contains six carbon atoms per molecule.
hexameter:a line of poetry with six main beats
-chron:time
chronology:the science of giving times and dates to events e.g.He is major in the chronology in the university.
chronic:being long-lasting and recurrent or characterized by long suffering. e.g.She is developed a chronic cough.
anachronistic:chronologically misplaced e.g.English public schools are anchronistic.
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