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 "attribution": "Source: Acenes of Sparta: The Dragon Slayer, the Sparta dragon novel. Lexicon: https://acenes-of-sparta-the-dragon-slayer.netlify.app/lexicon/ . Read the novel free on Kindle Unlimited: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJ9V8YWV",
 "book": {
  "title": "Acenes of Sparta: The Dragon Slayer",
  "tagline": "The Sparta dragon novel",
  "author": "Manolis Tsongas",
  "hook": "A dragon is the reason the 300 died.",
  "kindle_unlimited": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJ9V8YWV",
  "illustrated_hardcover": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H26KTD9C",
  "website": "https://acenes-of-sparta-the-dragon-slayer.netlify.app/"
 },
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  {
   "id": "acropolis",
   "name": "Acropolis",
   "category": "places",
   "summary": "The high city of Athens. Herodotus describes the Persians taking it in 480, the few defenders who trusted the wooden wall of the oracle barricading themselves behind timber, and the citadel burned.",
   "attested_in_ancient_sources": true,
   "api": "https://acenes-of-sparta.pages.dev/api/v1/entries/acropolis.json"
  },
  {
   "id": "argos",
   "name": "Argos",
   "category": "places",
   "summary": "Odysseus' faithful dog mentioned in comparison to the Laconian hound that finds Acenes. In Homer's Odyssey, Argos waited twenty years for his master's return, recognized him despite his disguise, and died shortly after their reunion, a symbol of perfect loyalty and devotion.",
   "attested_in_ancient_sources": true,
   "api": "https://acenes-of-sparta.pages.dev/api/v1/entries/argos.json"
  },
  {
   "id": "asphodel-fields-of",
   "name": "Asphodel, Fields of",
   "category": "places",
   "summary": "The region of the Greek underworld where ordinary souls who were neither heroic nor evil spend eternity. A gray, featureless plain where shades wander without purpose or strong memory of their former lives.",
   "attested_in_ancient_sources": false,
   "api": "https://acenes-of-sparta.pages.dev/api/v1/entries/asphodel-fields-of.json"
  },
  {
   "id": "athens",
   "name": "Athens",
   "category": "places",
   "summary": "A powerful Greek city-state and traditional rival to Sparta. In this account, Alcibiades uses his Athenian background to orchestrate his plan for domination of Greece.",
   "attested_in_ancient_sources": false,
   "api": "https://acenes-of-sparta.pages.dev/api/v1/entries/athens.json"
  },
  {
   "id": "boeotia",
   "name": "Boeotia",
   "category": "places",
   "summary": "A region of central Greece containing several important city-states, including Thebes.",
   "attested_in_ancient_sources": false,
   "api": "https://acenes-of-sparta.pages.dev/api/v1/entries/boeotia.json"
  },
  {
   "id": "corinth",
   "name": "Corinth",
   "category": "places",
   "summary": "A wealthy Greek city-state located on the isthmus connecting the Peloponnese to mainland Greece.",
   "attested_in_ancient_sources": false,
   "api": "https://acenes-of-sparta.pages.dev/api/v1/entries/corinth.json"
  },
  {
   "id": "delphi",
   "name": "Delphi",
   "category": "places",
   "summary": "The sanctuary of Apollo on the slope of Parnassus, and the oracle every Greek state consulted before doing anything serious.",
   "attested_in_ancient_sources": true,
   "api": "https://acenes-of-sparta.pages.dev/api/v1/entries/delphi.json"
  },
  {
   "id": "elysium",
   "name": "Elysium",
   "category": "places",
   "summary": "The region of the Greek underworld reserved for heroes and those blessed by the gods. Unlike the gray Fields of Asphodel, Elysium appears as golden fields where virtuous souls retain their memories and engage in the same pursuits that defined their excellence in life.",
   "attested_in_ancient_sources": false,
   "api": "https://acenes-of-sparta.pages.dev/api/v1/entries/elysium.json"
  },
  {
   "id": "ephesus",
   "name": "Ephesus",
   "category": "places",
   "summary": "A major Greek city in Ionia (modern-day Turkey) known for its wealth and the Temple of Artemis, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Pirates in this account planned to sell Acenes as a slave in Ephesus, where Spartan-trained servants were highly valued.",
   "attested_in_ancient_sources": false,
   "api": "https://acenes-of-sparta.pages.dev/api/v1/entries/ephesus.json"
  },
  {
   "id": "eurotas",
   "name": "Eurotas",
   "category": "places",
   "summary": "The river of Sparta, running south through the valley between Taygetus and Parnon.",
   "attested_in_ancient_sources": true,
   "api": "https://acenes-of-sparta.pages.dev/api/v1/entries/eurotas.json"
  },
  {
   "id": "hades-palace",
   "name": "Hades' Palace",
   "category": "places",
   "summary": "The impossibly architected central structure of the underworld, described as having corridors that extend beyond possible dimensions, chambers that exist in multiple locations simultaneously, and stairways that lead to destinations determined by thought rather than physical arrangement. The palace contains both the Treasury of Judgment and a vault of powerful artifacts collected throughout cosmic history.",
   "attested_in_ancient_sources": false,
   "api": "https://acenes-of-sparta.pages.dev/api/v1/entries/hades-palace.json"
  },
  {
   "id": "herculaneum",
   "name": "Herculaneum",
   "category": "places",
   "summary": "The town on the bay of Naples buried by Vesuvius in AD 79, and the site of the Villa of the Papyri, the only library to survive from the ancient world as a library rather than as copies.",
   "attested_in_ancient_sources": true,
   "api": "https://acenes-of-sparta.pages.dev/api/v1/entries/herculaneum.json"
  },
  {
   "id": "labyrinth",
   "name": "Labyrinth",
   "category": "places",
   "summary": "The maze built by Daedalus for Minos to hold the Minotaur, and the model for every enclosure designed so that what is inside cannot get out and what goes in cannot get back.",
   "attested_in_ancient_sources": true,
   "api": "https://acenes-of-sparta.pages.dev/api/v1/entries/labyrinth.json"
  },
  {
   "id": "lacedaemon",
   "name": "Lacedaemon",
   "category": "places",
   "summary": "The formal name of the Spartan state, and the reason a Spartan shield carried a lambda rather than a sigma.",
   "attested_in_ancient_sources": true,
   "api": "https://acenes-of-sparta.pages.dev/api/v1/entries/lacedaemon.json"
  },
  {
   "id": "mount-olympus",
   "name": "Mount Olympus",
   "category": "places",
   "summary": "Home of the Greek gods, where Zeus and Poseidon debate Acenes' fate. Greeks believed this actual mountain in northern Greece housed the divine realm on its summit, hidden from mortal view by clouds.",
   "attested_in_ancient_sources": false,
   "api": "https://acenes-of-sparta.pages.dev/api/v1/entries/mount-olympus.json"
  },
  {
   "id": "mount-taygetus",
   "name": "Mount Taygetus",
   "category": "places",
   "summary": "A mountain range in the Peloponnese near Sparta, featured in this account during the earthquake that leads Acenes to discover Kalaxes.",
   "attested_in_ancient_sources": false,
   "api": "https://acenes-of-sparta.pages.dev/api/v1/entries/mount-taygetus.json"
  },
  {
   "id": "olympia",
   "name": "Olympia",
   "category": "places",
   "summary": "The sanctuary of Zeus in Elis, and the games held there every four years. Pausanias walks it building by building and lists the victors' statues.",
   "attested_in_ancient_sources": true,
   "api": "https://acenes-of-sparta.pages.dev/api/v1/entries/olympia.json"
  },
  {
   "id": "parthenon",
   "name": "Parthenon",
   "category": "places",
   "summary": "The temple of Athena Parthenos on the Acropolis of Athens, represented in Athena's tattoo on Acenes' leg. Though not directly visited in this account, this iconic structure symbolized Athena's importance to Greek civilization.",
   "attested_in_ancient_sources": false,
   "api": "https://acenes-of-sparta.pages.dev/api/v1/entries/parthenon.json"
  },
  {
   "id": "plataea",
   "name": "Plataea",
   "category": "places",
   "summary": "The land battle of 479 that ended the Persian invasion, fought in Boeotia the summer after Thermopylae and Salamis.",
   "attested_in_ancient_sources": true,
   "api": "https://acenes-of-sparta.pages.dev/api/v1/entries/plataea.json"
  },
  {
   "id": "salamis",
   "name": "Salamis",
   "category": "places",
   "summary": "The sea battle of 480, fought in the straits between Attica and the island of Salamis, weeks after Thermopylae.",
   "attested_in_ancient_sources": true,
   "api": "https://acenes-of-sparta.pages.dev/api/v1/entries/salamis.json"
  },
  {
   "id": "sparta",
   "name": "Sparta",
   "category": "places",
   "summary": "A militaristic Greek city-state known for its warrior culture and austere lifestyle. Boys were taken from their homes at age seven to begin military training, and the society valued discipline, strength, and sacrifice above all else.",
   "attested_in_ancient_sources": false,
   "api": "https://acenes-of-sparta.pages.dev/api/v1/entries/sparta.json"
  },
  {
   "id": "styx-river",
   "name": "Styx, River",
   "category": "places",
   "summary": "The principal river of the Greek underworld, forming the boundary between the world of the living and the realm of the dead. Souls must cross this river, ferried by Charon, to reach the afterlife.",
   "attested_in_ancient_sources": false,
   "api": "https://acenes-of-sparta.pages.dev/api/v1/entries/styx-river.json"
  },
  {
   "id": "susa",
   "name": "Susa",
   "category": "places",
   "summary": "An ancient city of the Persian Empire where King Xerxes held court.",
   "attested_in_ancient_sources": false,
   "api": "https://acenes-of-sparta.pages.dev/api/v1/entries/susa.json"
  },
  {
   "id": "tartarus",
   "name": "Tartarus",
   "category": "places",
   "summary": "The deepest, most terrible region of the Greek underworld where the wicked are punished and the most dangerous beings are imprisoned. It's described as a landscape of extremes - rivers of fire cut through plains of razor-sharp stone, mountains of ice tower over lakes of boiling blood, with the very air shimmering with unnatural energies.",
   "attested_in_ancient_sources": false,
   "api": "https://acenes-of-sparta.pages.dev/api/v1/entries/tartarus.json"
  },
  {
   "id": "thebes",
   "name": "Thebes",
   "category": "places",
   "summary": "A powerful Greek city-state in the region of Boeotia.",
   "attested_in_ancient_sources": false,
   "api": "https://acenes-of-sparta.pages.dev/api/v1/entries/thebes.json"
  },
  {
   "id": "thermopylae",
   "name": "Thermopylae",
   "category": "places",
   "summary": "The narrow coastal pass where Leonidas and his 300 Spartans made their famous last stand against the Persian army. In this account, it is revealed that Leonidas sacrificed his divine protection to imprison Kalaxes, knowing it would doom him and his men at Thermopylae.",
   "attested_in_ancient_sources": false,
   "api": "https://acenes-of-sparta.pages.dev/api/v1/entries/thermopylae.json"
  },
  {
   "id": "troy",
   "name": "Troy",
   "category": "places",
   "summary": "The city of the Iliad, and the war every later Greek measured himself against.",
   "attested_in_ancient_sources": true,
   "api": "https://acenes-of-sparta.pages.dev/api/v1/entries/troy.json"
  }
 ]
}