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  2. Achilleion (Corfu) - Wikipedia

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    The palace was designed by Italian architect Raffaele Caritto and built on an area of 200,000 m 2. Elisabeth's husband, Emperor Franz Josef of Austria , had owned some nearby land as well. [ 1 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] The German sculptor Ernst Herter was commissioned to create works inspired from Greek mythology .

  3. Gastouri - Wikipedia

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    Gastouri is a Greek village and community located about 10 kilometres south of the city of Corfu. Gastouri was established as a settlement on 28 January 1866 by publication of the decision in the Greek government gazette. [2] In 1995, administratively, it belonged to the municipality of Achilleio. [2]

  4. Athens, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    IL 29 leads south 14 miles (23 km) to Springfield, the state capital, and north 18 miles (29 km) to Mason City, while IL 123 leads east 8 miles (13 km) to Williamsville and northwest to Petersburg. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city of Athens has an area of 1.68 square miles (4.4 km 2), all land. [2]

  5. Achilles' heel - Wikipedia

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    In the myths surrounding the war, Achilles was said to have died from a wound to his heel, [5] [6] ankle, [7] or torso, [5] which was the result of an arrow—possibly poisoned—shot by Paris. [8] The Iliad may purposefully suppress the myth to emphasise Achilles' human mortality and the stark chasm between gods and heroes.

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  7. Historicity of the Iliad - Wikipedia

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    The Achilles of the Linear B tablet is a shepherd, not a king or warrior, but the very fact that the name is an authentic Bronze Age name is significant. These names in the Homeric poems presumably remember, if not necessarily specific people, at least an older time when people's names were not the same as they were when the Homeric epics were ...

  8. Phthia - Wikipedia

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    It was founded by Aeacus, grandfather of Achilles, and was the home of Achilles' father Peleus, mother Thetis (a sea nymph), and son Neoptolemus (who reigned as king after the Trojan War). Phthia is referenced in Plato's Crito , where Socrates , in jail and awaiting his execution, relates a dream he has had (43d–44b): [ 2 ] "I thought that a ...

  9. List of streets in Athens - Wikipedia

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    This article is a list of every street in municipality (corresponding within Center of Athens) ... Liosia area (Ilion, Petroupoli, Kamatero and Ano Liosia)