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This an alphabetical list of ancient Greeks. These include ancient people of Greek culture who were also born and have Greek origins and ethnic Greeks from Greece and ...
Leonidas (d.480 BCE), Spartan king, killed defending Greece from the Persians Bust of Leonidas I, famed king of Sparta who led his troops at the Battle of Thermopylae against a Persian invasion of the Greek city states, perhaps most famous for having told the Persian King Xerxes his "Molon labe", or "Come and take them", when ordered to ...
Ancient Greece (Ancient Greek: Ἑλλάς, romanized: Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity (c. 600 AD), that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and other territories.
His most famous temple is in Delphi, where he established his oracular shrine. His signs and symbols include the laurel wreath, bow and arrow, and lyre. His sacred animals include roe deer, swans, and pythons. Some late Roman and Greek poetry and mythography identifies him as a sun-god, equivalent to Roman Sol and Greek Helios. [2]
Mani was famous for being a Christian stronghold and a trustworthy ally for the Holy League during their wars with the Ottoman Empire. By the late 1700s the Maniots controlled large swathes of land in the southern Peloponnese, and the area became a refuge for many Greeks who were fleeing from Albanian raiders in the aftermath of the Orlov Revolt.
Abydenus; Aesopus (historian) Agatharchides; Agathocles (writers) Alexander Polyhistor; Anticlides; Antipater; Antisthenes of Rhodes; Aratus of Sicyon; Artapanus of Alexandria
Aaron Taylor-Johnson is the world’s most handsome man, according to a study based on ancient Greek beauty standards. The British actor’s eye, eyebrow, nose, lips, chin, jaw, and facial shape ...
Pentathlon: The first documented pentathlon occurred in 708 BC in Ancient Greece at the Ancient Olympic Games, and was also held at the other Panhellenic Games. Peplos: A peplos is a body-length garment established as typical attire for women in ancient Greece by 500 BC.