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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
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