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Battle of Thermopylae

The Battle of Thermopylae took place during the Greece-Persia war in roughly the 5th century BC. Some 30 city-states of central and southern Greece met in Corinth to devise a common defense (others, including the oracle at Delphi, sided with the Persians). They agreed on a combined army and navy under Spartan command, with the Athenian leader Themi...

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TEMPLE OF ATHENA NIKE

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Internet Resources: Ancient Greece

Many Links, General Resources Cretan and Aegean Palace Civilizations Mycenae and Pre-Homeric Greece Greek History Greek Archaeology Greek Art Greek Architecture Greek Philosophy Greek Religion Greek Literature Greek Drama Greek Music Greek Science and Mathematics Greek Language Bibliographies On-line Courses with Resources Newsgr...

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Greece and Rome - Art and Archaeology

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The Dorians

Legends which survived among the Dorians and which have come down to us through Pindar, Herodotus and other ancient writers, say that the earliest ancestors of the Dorians were Makednoi (that is, Macedonians), who migrated to Doris from Pindos, more precisely from the Lakmos region....

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