Word: troy
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Years later, on the way to Troy, the archer accidentally scratched his foot with one of the poisoned arrows and was cast into exile by his companions, who found the smell of the wound un bearable. When the Greeks learned that only Hercules' arrow could win the war. they persuaded Philoctetes to rejoin the battle, and he promptly slew Trojan Enemy Paris. See SCIENCE, Philoctetes Was Here...
Some 3,100 years ago, the Aegean island of Chryse (pronounced Cry-see) soared rocketlike into brief prominence in the Mediterranean world. According to Homer's Iliad, what made the mighty Achilles sulk in his tent before Troy was the aftermath of a quarrel over the daughter of Chryses, high priest of the tiny island's temple of Apollo. Another famed Greek warrior, the archer Philoctetes, never got beyond Chryse; stopping off there on his way to Troy, Philoctetes was fatally bitten by a viper loosed on him, according to legend, by a local nymph whose advances...
...intrigued by the legend of Chryse, a skindiving Italian nobleman, the Marquis Piero Nicola Gargallo, set out to find the vanished island. A serious amateur archaeologist, Gargallo, 32, centered his search in the area favored by traditional archaeological opinion-near the Dardanelles, on the ancient Greek invasion route to Troy. For tips on the island's precise location, he reread the pertinent passages in Homer and other ancients. Then, studying a detailed British navy map, he came upon a sunken land mass known as Kharos Bank, a 10-sq.-mi. area near the island of Lemnos, mentioned by Homer...
...Globe Theatre. And the parents of Diana Echlin should be gratified that although her Helen is beautiful she is not going to destroy the United Nations with personal wantonness. Most of the actors in this depraved drama look like upright citizens who are not going to betray Troy, Greece or the United States...
...seconds. Anchorman Jeff Farrell, 23, kept out of the 100-meters freestyle by a July appendicitis attack, boiled through the water to bring home world records in the 400-meter medley relay (4:05.4) and 800-meter freestyle relay (8:10.2). Bobbing like a porpoise, Indiana's Mike Troy, 19. windmilled through the grueling 200-meter butterfly in 2:12.8 to break his world record by .4 sec. In two major races, Australia's Murray Rose won the 400-meters and Teammate John Konrads swam off with the 1,500-meters. But when all the events were done...