Emperor Manuel Palaeologus, in his speech "Admonition to the people of urged the to fight to death, for this is what their historical tradition decrees: "because we are Romaioi (= Byzantines, Greeks) & our country is the one of Philip & Alexander"

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The Great Flood may not be a myth. The flood appears in ancient Sumerian, in the Hindu Matsya Purana, in the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh, in the Bible & with ancient Greeks w/ Zeus' flooding of the world in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Scientists have found evidence in the Black Sea.

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The oldest known depiction of the Trojan Horse can be found on the so-called Mykonos vase, c. 670 BC. The neck of the pithos shows the descent of the Greeks from the wooden horse. His hooves rest upon little wheels, and in the body and neck of the horse are seven windows visible.

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opens in just under an hour and we have all the fun you could ever want (to give or receive!) for See you at at 12pm!

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According to Eratosthenes, Chron. FGH 241 F 1d, the Greeks captured and burned Troy in 1184BC

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IS TROPICAL | THE GREEKS : 世界中で賛否を巻き起こしたミュージック・ビデオ「THE GREEKS」! https://t.co/jBz4O78oeM

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Ancient greeks accepted no number smaller than zero. To them, x + 7 = 3 had no solution

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The Greeks would sacrifice one hundred bulls to Zeus during each Olympics

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An about to go into a Herculean pickle jar...those crazy Greeks...

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aristos achaion and best of the greeks

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Greeks and Trojans fighting over the body of Patroclus, 1836

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The ancient Greeks believed that black butterflies were the souls of past lives

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For Greeks who have a beef with Eurozone creditors.

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"Okhlos" by
->action game about an angry mob of ancient greeks
http://t.co/YHrOJ5pn8k

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