Portal:Greece
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The History of Greece traditionally encompasses the study of the Greek people, the areas they ruled, and the territory of now composing the modern state of Greece.
The scope of Greek habitation and rule has varied significantly through the ages, and as a consequence the history of Greece is similarly elastic in what it includes. Each era has its own related sphere of interest.
The first Greeks arrived in Europe some time before 1500 BC, and at its peak, Greek Civilization ruled everything from Greece to Egypt to the Hindu Kush mountains. Since then, large Greek minorities have remained in former Greek territories (e.g.,Turkey, Italy, and Libya, Levant, etc.), and Greek Emigrants have assimilated into differing societies across the globe (e.g., the United States, Australia, etc.). However, today most Greeks live in the modern states of Greece (independent since 1821) and Cyprus (independent since 1960). More about the History of Greece...
- ...that the Rio-Antirio bridge between the Peloponnese and mainland Greece is the world's longest cable-stayed suspended deck?
- ...that the Mediterranean diet practiced in Greece and other Mediterranean countries and including copious amounts of olive oil, while relatively high in fat, is thought to lead to much lower rates of cardiovascular disease than other diets?
Greece has produced countless world-famous poets, from ancient times down to the present. In addition to historians and non-fiction writers like Herodotus and Xenophon, and novelists like Nikos Kazantzakis.
- Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans. Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades, and many a hero did it yield a prey to dogs and vultures, for so were the counsels of Zeus fulfilled from the day on which the son of Atreus, king of men, and great Achilles, first fell out with one another.
- 323 - Battle of Adrianople Constantine the Great defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium
- 48 BC - Battle of Dyrrhachium, Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia.
- 1974 - In Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek-sponsored nationalists launch a coup d'état, deposing President Makarios and installing Nikos Sampson as Cypriot president.
- 1974 - Invasion of Cyprus In the first of a two stage invasion, Turkish forces land in Kyrenia after Greek Cypriots' attempt at enosis.
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Actors/Film Directors
Musicians
Painters
Philosophers
- Ancient
- Anaximander
- Aristotle
- Democritus
- Empedocles
- Heraclitus
- Plato
- Protagoras, Sophist and first major Humanist
- Pythagoras, (582 BC-496 BC), euclidean geometry
- Socrates, (470 BC-399 BC), Ancient philosopher
- Thales
- New
Sculptors
- Ancient
- New
Writers
- Ancient
- New
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- Constantine P. Cavafy
- Odysseas Elytis
- Nikos Kazantzakis, (1883-1957), writer
Statesmen
- Ancient
- New
Greece has a proud tradition of sculpture going back to ancient times and continuing to the present, in addition to other forms of visual art like the fresco and mosaic. Since Byzantine times, Greek painters have been known for their religious icons.
More on Art in Ancient Greece & Sculpture of Ancient Greece...
- Φασσούλι το φασσούλι, γεμίζει το σακκούλι...
- The sack is filled one bean at a time...
- -Greek proverb
- Όχι!
- No!
- -reply of Greek Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas to a Italian ultimatum demanding Greece's surrender in World War II
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