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In honor of, you mean? Well, loads of things - people mostly. Like Heracles (Greek form of the Roman Hercules), the gods, heroes and stories. All great heroes in ancient Greece wanted to be told in stories and have plays written about their lives, so, there were a lot of stories and plays.

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