Crossword-Solution: EPEIROS 7 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

From that day until his death, forty years later, the record of his life is one perpetual heroic struggle to preserve the hard-won liberty of Epeiros, a struggle without intermission or relief, without rest for the victor or pity for the vanquished.

Twice again during his lifetime was Epeiros invaded by the Ottomans; and Scanderbeg, driven from his lair, was hunted like a deer from hill to hill, now lying in covert, now fiercely resisting, but unconquered always.

All the way, as was the Greek fashion, they hugged the shore along Ætolia, Akarnania, Epeiros, keeping within the islands for safety, arriving at Corcyra, that western outlook-isle of Greece, the fourth day.

Epeiros now became a republic; of the details of its constitution we know nothing, but its form can hardly fail to have been federal.

Finally, we have the most important type of zoolatric ritual in Greece, the worship of certain sacred snakes: various records attest this in the cult of Trophonios at Lebadeia and in the temple of Athena Polias at Athens; in the cult of Zeus-Meilichios in the Piraeus, in the sacred grove of Apollo in Epeiros, probably in the shrines of Asklepios at Epidauros and Kos, and elsewhere.