It actually means Before Common Era or Before Christian Era =)
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There are five major ancient periods of the Persian Empire A/ The Medean Empire from 756 to 559 BCE and rulers Deices, Phraortes, Madius, Cyaxares and Astyages. B/ The Achaemenid Empire from 550 to 330 BCE first ruler Cyrus who defeated Astyages and established the Achaemenid House that interfered with the political developments in the Helladic region and were defeated by Alexander the Great. The most famous leaders of the Achaemenid were Cyrus II the Great, Darius I who invated Greece [battle of Marathon], Xerxes I who invated Greece [battle of Thermopylae and Salamis] and Darius III who lost the Empire to Alexander III the Great. C/ The Hellenistic Persia from 330 to 250 BCE under the rule of the Seleucid Dynasty D/ The Parthians and the Arsacid dynasty from 250 to 226 BCE. E/ The Sassanid Empire from 226 BCE to 651 AD/ CE and the Sassanian Dynasty. After that year Persia was conquered by the Muslims and it will be part of the Ottoman Empire and later part of the Mongolian Empire.
Εφιάλτης (E-fee-a-ltees) This word in modern greek mean nightmare! Interesting, isn' t it?
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you pronounce Erichthonius like [e-rich-thon-e-us] hope that helped :3