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A Priestess Of Aphrodite Crossword Clue

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noun

• a person distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength

• Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century)

• the principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem

• (Greek mythology) priestess of Aphrodite who killed herself when her lover Leander drowned while trying to swim the Hellespont to see her

• someone who fights for a cause

• (classical mythology) a being of great strength and courage celebrated for bold exploits; often the offspring of a mortal and a god

• a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States

27%9Priestess in a bacchanalian cult
noun

• (classical mythology) a priestess or votary of Bacchus

27%6Priestess of Dionysus
noun

• an unnaturally frenzied or distraught woman

• (Greek mythology) a woman participant in the orgiastic rites of Dionysus

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