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Greek Reporter8d
The Story of the Ancient Greek Metropolis of Syracuse
The ancient Greek city-state of Syracuse on the eastern coast of Sicily started as a colony and became a Greek metropolis.
TheCollector on MSN4d
4 Minor Greek Cities That Changed the World
It was conquered by and resisted empires and contributed to the development and spread of the Greek alphabet.   When Greece ...
CBS News1y
Ancient building and treasures from sunken city discovered underwater in Greece
The Battle of Salamis happened during the earlier half of the Greco-Persian Wars, a string of conflicts between ancient Greek city states and ... city," the Greek culture ministry said in a ...
The Washington Post9y
Classical Greece was incredibly politically innovative. Why did it rise — and then fall?
As Greece emerged from the post-collapse era, and villages coalesced into city-states, some communities resisted the rise of elite coalitions, seeking to retain a culture of equal standing among ...
The Washington Post12mon
The elite ancient Greek fighting force made up entirely of gay couples
The ancient Greek city-state of Thebes had been under Spartan ... queer studies pioneer and author of “Homosexuality and Civilization,” the fate of the Sacred Band “was in the end the ...
SFGate4y
Ancient City, Long Thought Lost at Sea, Found Buried in Greece / Old civilization may be a `time capsule' of classical Greece
On a winter night in 373 B.C., the one-two punch of an earthquake followed by a surging tidal wave destroyed the grand old Greek city of Helike, near the Gulf of Corinth. The city was ...