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Megara logo #10101) Ancient city near Athens 2) Fictional slave 3) Greek city-state 4) Greek girl name 5) Location in Greek mythology
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Megara

Megara logo #21000 Megara (ə; Μέγαρα, pron) is a historic town and a municipality (pop. 36,924 in 2011) in West Attica, Greece. It lies in the northern section of the Isthmus of Corinth opposite the island of Salamis, which belonged to Megara in archaic times, before being taken by Athens. Megara was one of the four districts of Attica, embodied in the four m...
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Megara logo #21000[mythology] In Greek mythology, Megara (ə; Μεγάρα) was the oldest daughter of Creon, king of Thebes. In reward for Heracles` defending Thebes from the Minyans at Orchomenus in single-handed battle, Creon offered his daughter Megara to Heracles, and he brought her home to the house of Amphitryon. She bore him a son and a daughter, who...
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Megara logo #21003(from the article `Heracles`) Later, Heracles waged a victorious war against the kingdom of Orchomenus in Boeotia and married Megara, daughter of Creon, king of Thebes. But he ...
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Megara logo #21003ancient and modern settlement on the Saronic Gulf within Attica nomós (department) of Greece. Modern Megara sits on the southern slopes of two hills ... [5 related articles]
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Megara logo #23403wife of Heracles and, later, of Iolaus.
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Megara logo #20688Ancient Greek city-state between Attica and Corinth. Bounded on the north by the Corinthian Gulf and on the south by the Saronic Gulf, Megara had two good harbours, attained commercial prosperity,...
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