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Who were the Hellenes?
GREECE is a country that people go to on cruises in spring, summer and autumn. Like other people who go
Theseus and the Minotaur
The Greeks, then, had their story of the creation of the world, of a great flood and a heroic ancestor;
The Palace of Minos
So much for the legend. What of the facts? At Cnossos, near Herakleion, in Crete are the ruins of an
Helen of Troy
Helen “of Troy“ was in fact Helen of Sparta where she was the wife of King Menelaus. She only spent
The Wooden Horse
In the tenth year of the war the Greek hero Achilles slew Hector, the Trojan, in single combat. (Paris, the
Was there a Trojan War?
Parts of the story of the Trojan War are told in two poems the Iliad (Ilium = Troy) and the
The Migration
The “Dark Age” of Greece (c. 1100 – 800) was a time of migration and settlement. Whole peoples were in
City-States and Colonies
The two hundred years after 800 B.C. saw a great expansion of the Greeks by colonisation. Colonisation is a more
The Delphic Oracle
The Delphic oracle, the priestess of Apollo, was supposed to have the gift of prophecy. The Delphic Oracle was consulted
The Olympic Games
At Olympia every four years Olympic games were held in which any Greek was entitled to take part. It is