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For over 2,500 years, the olive tree of the Acropolis has remained a worthy symbol of Athens, an undying and ancient ...

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How did ancient Greek hero Theseus unite all of Attica under the rule of Athens, and what was it like before he did?

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This question lends special interest to Josiah Ober’s search for the preconditions of the first known efflorescence, in ancient Greece. Indeed ... city-state (polis), and especially in democratic ...

Just a short 10-mile bus ride south of the bustling Greek capital lies the stunning Athens Rivera ... the most historic and largest Marina in Greece - where sewage mixes with stormwater and ...

While there are many more acropoleis (the plural of "acropolis") in Greece, it's this one in central Athens that garners the most attention. In fact, it's routinely referred to simply as "The ...

A woman poses for a photo in front Caryatid statues that prop up the porch of the 5th century B.C. Erechtheion temple, as at the background is seen smoke from a fire , during a hot, windy day at ...

From Billy Joel’s inability to resist a good Beethoven melody to Lady Gaga’s sampling of rhapsodic violin solos, here are the greatest examples of classical samples in pop. In 19 cases of chicken and ...

But Athens is no historical theme park ... a day at the beach with an early-evening visit to Sounio. Greece's most beautiful classical site, Delphi, was the home of the fabled Oracle which ...