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Examples:upsilon (Greek letter Υυ)—Achilles (or Akhilleus or Achilleus), son of Thetis and Peleus, Greek hero central the Iliad—Aristophanes (c. 448-380 BC), Greek comic playwright—victory garland (in Greek and western culture)—Euripides (c. 480-406 BC), Greek tragedian, author of Medea, Trojan Women etc—oligodendrocytes (Greek: cells with few branches), a type of cell in central nervous system—Corfu (Greek: Kerkira), island in the Ionian sea—Diophantus of Alexandria (3rd century AD), Greek mathematician—Chronos, Greek God and cannibalistic child abuser, father of Zeus—Cassandra, daughter of king Priam in Greek mythology—Aeolus, Greek God of winds—Aristotle (384-322 BC), Greek philosopher—Aeschylus (c. 524 BC -c. 455 BC), Greek tragedian, author of The Persians, Seven against Thebes etc—nun or sister (of the Roman Catholic or Greek Orthodox churches)—Hippocrates (c. 460 BC - c. 370 BC), Greek physician, father of Western medicine—Nereids (Greek sea nymphs, fifty daughters of Nereus and Doris)—faun, half-goat half-human creature of Greek mythology—Aesop (trad. 620-560 BC), Greek slave and story-teller, reported author of Aesop's fables—Hermes, in Greek mythology, messenger of the Gods—Kefalonia, Greek Island in the Ionian sea—Sophocles (496-406 BC), Greek tragedian, author of Oedipus the King—Socrates (469-399 BC), Greek philosopher—formerly called Oxus by Greek and Western writers, and Gihon by medieval Islamic writers—Empedocles (490-430 BC), Greek Sicilian pre-Socratic philosopher—Eratosthenes of Cyrene (c. 276-c. 195 BC), ancient Greek mathematician and inventor—in Greek mythology, a monster with 100 eyes, transformed inpeacock's tail—Bia, daughter of Pallas and Styx in Greek mythology, personification of violence—Rhea, wife of Chronos and mother of Zeus in Greek mythology—Hestia, goddess of the hearth in Greek mythology, daughter of Chronos and Rhea—Arcadia (Greek prefecture on the Peloponnese)— |