Chapter 8 of The Wooden Horse of the Fall of Troy is here in full — 201 sentences across 41 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 8 of The Wooden Horse of the Fall of Troy is here in full — 201 sentences across 41 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Nisus and Scylla. Echo and Narcissus. Clytie. Hero and Leander Minos, king of Crete, made war upon Megara. Nisus was king of Megara, and Scylla was his daughter.
Chapter 8 of The Wooden Horse of the Fall of Troy is here in full — 201 sentences across 41 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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the largest Greek island in the Mediterranean; site of the Minoan civilization that reached its peak in 1600 BC
From this reading “Hero and Leander Minos, king of Crete, made war upon Megara.”
a female human offspring
From this reading “Nisus was king of Megara, and Scylla was his daughter.”
to say again or imitate
From this reading “Echo and Narcissus.”
a man distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength
From this reading “Hero and Leander Minos, king of Crete, made war upon Megara.”
(Greek mythology) a youth beloved of Hero who drowned in a storm in the Hellespont on one of his nightly visits to see her
From this reading “Hero and Leander Minos, king of Crete, made war upon Megara.”
bulbous plant having erect linear leaves and showy yellow or white flowers either solitary or in clusters
From this reading “Echo and Narcissus.”
(Greek mythology) a sea nymph transformed into a sea monster who lived on one side of a narrow strait; drowned and devoured sailors who tried to escape Charybdis (a whirlpool) on the other side of the strait
From this reading “Nisus and Scylla.”
the waging of armed conflict against an enemy
From this reading “Hero and Leander Minos, king of Crete, made war upon Megara.”
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used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Nisus and Scylla.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Clytie.
the largest Greek island in the Mediterranean; site of the Minoan civilization that reached its peak in 1600 BC
From this reading Hero and Leander Minos, king of Crete, made war upon Megara.
a female human offspring
From this reading Nisus was king of Megara, and Scylla was his daughter.
to say again or imitate
From this reading Echo and Narcissus.
a man distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength
From this reading Hero and Leander Minos, king of Crete, made war upon Megara.
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading Nisus was king of Megara, and Scylla was his daughter.
a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom
From this reading Hero and Leander Minos, king of Crete, made war upon Megara.
(Greek mythology) a youth beloved of Hero who drowned in a storm in the Hellespont on one of his nightly visits to see her
From this reading Hero and Leander Minos, king of Crete, made war upon Megara.
produced by a manufacturing process
From this reading Hero and Leander Minos, king of Crete, made war upon Megara.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Hero and Leander Minos, king of Crete, made war upon Megara.
son of Zeus and Europa; king of ancient Crete; ordered Daedalus to build the labyrinth; after death Minos became a judge in the underworld
From this reading Hero and Leander Minos, king of Crete, made war upon Megara.
bulbous plant having erect linear leaves and showy yellow or white flowers either solitary or in clusters
From this reading Echo and Narcissus.
an effortful attempt to attain a goal
From this reading Nisus and Scylla.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading Hero and Leander Minos, king of Crete, made war upon Megara.
(Greek mythology) a sea nymph transformed into a sea monster who lived on one side of a narrow strait; drowned and devoured sailors who tried to escape Charybdis (a whirlpool) on the other side of the strait
From this reading Nisus and Scylla.
a formal word for “on”
From this reading Hero and Leander Minos, king of Crete, made war upon Megara.
the waging of armed conflict against an enemy
From this reading Hero and Leander Minos, king of Crete, made war upon Megara.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Nisus was king of Megara, and Scylla was his daughter.
Chapter 8 of The Wooden Horse of the Fall of Troy by Classical Greek & Roman Sagas (Hesiod, Ovid & Homer) holds 201 sentences, grouped into 41 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the source edition, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
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