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Greek siren sports behind most of Greek temple (10)

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I believe the answer is:

parthenope

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'greek siren' is the definition.
'Parthenope' can be an answer for 'siren' (thesaurus). I am unsure of the 'greek' bit.

'sports behind most of greek temple' is the wordplay.
'sports' becomes 'pe' (Physical Education).
'behind' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'most of' means to remove the last letter.
'greek temple' becomes 'parthenon'.
'parthenon' with its final letter taken off is 'partheno'.
'pe' put after 'partheno' is 'PARTHENOPE'.

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