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Menander and many Late Antique dictionaries use this place’s vibrating bronze cauldrons as an idiom meaning “chatterbox.” The disguised Odysseus tells both Eumaeus and Penelope a tale in which Odysseus is seen traveling to this place by Pheidon, the king of the Thesprotians. The Iliad describes men with unwashed feet, (15[1])the Selloi, serving at this place. (-5[1])The Pelasgians decide to adopt names for their gods after visiting this place in Book 2 of Herodotus, which describes a pair of black (*) doves flying (-5[1])out of Egypt and landing in (10[1])Libya and this place. The Peleiades (10[1])represented the goddess Dione at this place, where she was seen as the consort of the naios aspect of its central god. (-5[1])Material taken from this place was used to fashion the speaking prow of the (10[1])Argo. (10[1]-5[1])For 10 points, (10[1])name this place (10[1])in Ephesus where an oak grove (10[1])sacred to Zeus became the site of the oldest Hellenic oracle. ■END■ (10[3]0[1])

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