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Did you know

...that Crete, although now Greek, had its own civilization well before Ancient Greece in the Minoan culture?

...that Philip II of Macedon was killed at the hands of one of his own bodyguards in Aegae, Pausanias of Orestis, and then the assassin was killed by some of the other bodyguards?

...that Tsakonian Greek, a dialect of Greek that is found on the Peloponnese, is actually descended from the Dorians?



... that the Parthenon replaced an older temple of Athena, called the Pre-Parthenon or Older Parthenon, that was destroyed in the Persian invasion of 480 BC.

...that the ancient Greeks admired ancient Egyptian medicine.

...that together with his teacher, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the philosophical foundations of Western culture.



...that the historical origins of the Ancient Olympic Games are unknown, but several legends and myths survive.

...that the Ancient Greeks had many words to describe slaves

...that the Colossus of Rhodes was a huge statue of the Greek god Helios, erected on the Greek island of Rhodes



  • ... that by the time of his death, Alexander the Great had conquered most of the world known to the ancient Greeks?
  • ...that although of Greek origin, the Corinthian order was seldom used in Greek architecture?
  • ...that Greek mythology has changed over time to accommodate the evolution of their own culture?



  • ... that the Greeks did not have a term for "religion"?
  • ...that to the ancient Greeks, Paideia (παιδεία) was "the process of educating man into his true form, the real and genuine human nature ?
  • ...that Troy was a legendary city ?



  • ... that the Greeks did not have a term for "religion" ?