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  • For anything and everything as a jumping point for further research (generally, real-world terms)

Agonothetai

Game organizers or administrators of the Panhelenic Festival

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Charis/Kharis

The word 'charis' or 'kharis' comes from the Greek 'Χαρισ' and meaning "grace, kindness"

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Esperanto

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Hellanodikai

From Olympica Historika:

In the twelve centuries or so which spanned the Hellenic Olympiads, the judges, commonly called Hellanodikai [judges of the Hellenes], were renowned for their impartiality and strict-ness in judgement.

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Labyrinth

From Wikipedia:
In Greek mythology, the Labyrinth (Gk. λαβύρινθος labyrinthos) was an elaborate structure constructed for King Minos of Crete at Knossos and designed by the legendary artificer Daedalus to hold the Minotaur, a creature that was half man and half bull and which was eventually killed by the Athenian hero Theseus. Daedalus had made the Labyrinth so cunningly that he himself could barely escape it after he built it. Theseus was aided by Ariadne, who provided him with a fateful thread, literally the "clew," or "clue," to wind his way back again.

The term labyrinth is often used interchangeably with maze, but modern scholars of the subject use a stricter definition. For them, a maze is a tour puzzle in the form of a complex branching passage with choices of path and direction; while a single-path ("unicursal") labyrinth has only a single Eulerian path to the center. A labyrinth has an unambiguous through-route to the center and back and is not designed to be difficult to navigate.

Olympics, History of

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Omphalos

From Wikipedia:
An omphalos is an ancient religious stone artifact, or baetylus. In Greek, the word omphalos means "navel" (compare the name of Queen Omphale). According to the ancient Greeks, Zeus sent out two eagles to fly across the world to meet at its center, the "navel" of the world. Omphalos stones used to denote this point were erected in several areas surrounding the Mediterranean Sea; the most famous of those was at the oracle in Delphi.

In this game, when one omphalos (landmark) is located and logged, a secondary location is given in distance (stadia), direction (degrees and zodiacal sign). This trail leads eventually to Artifacts.

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Stadion

The oldest running event. The distance was called one Stade (192 m), which was the length of the Stadium, the location of the event.

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Zodiac

From Wikipedia:

Zodiac denotes an annual cycle of twelve stations along the ecliptic, the apparent path of the sun across the heavens through the constellations that divide the ecliptic into twelve equal zones of celestial longitude. The zodiac is recognized as the first known celestial coordinate system. There are two independently-created zodiacs from which the modern Western world derived its understanding of zodiac systems. Babylonian astrology, inherited by astrology, developed the zodiac of twelve signs familiar in the West. The etymology of the term zodiac is that it comes from the Latin zōdiacus, from the Greek ζῳδιακός [κύκλος], meaning "circle of animals", derived from ζῴδιον, the diminutive of ζῷον "animal". However, the classical Greek zodiac also includes signs (also constellations) that are not represented by animals (e.g., Libra, Virgo and Gemini). Another suggested etymology is that the Greek term is cognate with the Sanskrit sodi, denoting "a path", i.e., the path through which the Sun travels

See: Wikipedia's Astrological Signs

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