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Book III: Section II

Hellespont another name for the Dardanelles, a strait in northwest Turkey connecting the Sea of Marmara with the Aegean Sea. The ancient Phrygian city of Troy (site of the Trojan War) was located in Asia Minor near the Aegean end of the strait.

Asclepius in Greek mythology, the god of healing and medicine.

Pandarus a leader of the Lycians in the Trojan War; a Trojan hero in the Iliad.

Menelaus king of Sparta, Agamemnon's brother, and husband of Helen of Troy, whose abduction by the Trojan Paris (son of King Priam) was the legendary cause of the Trojan War.

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