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Ch. 3 Vocab

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Xenia   gift exchange and guest-friendship among aristocrats  
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"Always to be the best and to be eminent beyond others"   Self explanatory  
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arete   especial skill or excellence  
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time   honor  
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hubris   excessive pride or self-confidence  
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agon   contest  
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Patroklos   friend of Achilles who died at Troy (Illiad)  
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Achilles   hero of the Illiad  
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hoi polloi   "the many" referring to the common not aristocrat  
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Agememnon   "best of spearmen"  
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lump of pig iron   Achronism - inconsistency in the timeline - lump of iron in the bronze age?  
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kerdos   seeker of profit  
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kleos   glory (seeker of glory)  
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suitors   people watching  
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contest of the bow   contest to shoot arrow through sockets of axe-heads; for Penelopa and the kingdom  
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