| Festa of Flora |
Goddess of flowers and the season of spring in Roman mythology. Her festival in April or early May celebrated the renewal of the cycle of life. Her Greek equivalent was Chloris. |
| Fez cap |
A red felt hat of Turkish/Greek origin in the shape of a truncated cone. |
| Cephisus |
River Cephissus which flows through the Athenian plain. |
| Mount Hymettus |
Mountain near Athens 1026m high noted for its marble quarries and its thyme honey. |
| Palikas |
Greek family name – but cannot trace individual here |
| Altica |
Probably Attica – the area around Athens and peninsula jutting south into the Aegean Sea. |
| Kevisia |
Kifissia, now one of the northern suburbs of Athens. The arrival of the railway in 1885 made it a fashionable place for wealthy Athenians to bulid villas and summer houses. |
| Cukonara |
Cannot trace |
| Stamata |
Now an exclusive suburb in the mountainous area about 20 kilometers northeast of Athens |
| Marathon |
Marathon in northwest Attica was the site of a battle in 490BC in which the heavily outnumbered Athenians defeated the Persians. The modern marathon is long-distance race commemmorating the 26 miles run by a Greek soldier, Pheidippodes, to bring news of the victory to Athens |
| Plateans |
Plataea was an ancient Greek city northwest of Athens which joined with Athens in opposing the Persians |
| Tumulus |
A mound of earth or stones raised over a grave |
| Thebes |
City northwest of Athens, one of its rivals in ancient times and siding with the Persians during the invasion of Xerxes in 480BC |
| Affray |
Fight |
| Albanian dogs |
Possibly related to the modern Albanian Sharplanina Dog bred from Albanian cattle and sheep herding dogs and imported mastiffs and bulldogs. They are territorial and aggressive and make good watchdogs and fighters. |
| Asopuss |
River flowing east into the Aegean Sea. Asopos was a river god in central Greece. |
| Cave of Branna |
Perhaps at Vanas, a village 4km south of Marathon. |
| Diana |
Roman goddess of hunting, and later also the goddess of the moon. The Greek equivalent was Artemis. |
