News and stories from Greece

17 stories set in Greece, including Olympia, Greece, Rhodes harbour, Athens, Greece, Athens Acropolis, Athens, Epidaurus, Greece, Delphi, Greece, Marmaria, Delphi.

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Statue of Zeus at Olympia: a world wonder of c. 435 BCE (World Wonder · Olympia, Greece) — c. 435 BCE, Olympia, Greece. Phidias seated Zeus in gold and ivory so large that if the god stood he would unroof the temple — a chryselepha
Colossus of Rhodes: a world wonder of c. 280 BCE (World Wonder · Rhodes harbour) — c. 280 BCE, Rhodes harbour. Chares of Lindos cast Helios roughly 33 metres high to thank the sun god after Demetrius failed to take the isla
The Parthenon: a world wonder of c. 447 BCE (World Wonder · Athens, Greece) — c. 447 BCE, Athens, Greece. Ictinus and Callicrates, with Phidias overseeing sculpture, built Athena’s Doric masterpiece with optical refine
The Erechtheion: a world wonder of c. 421 BCE (World Wonder · Athens Acropolis) — c. 421 BCE, Athens Acropolis. An asymmetrical temple for Athena Polias, Poseidon, and ancestral kings, with a porch of Caryatids instead of
Propylaea of the Acropolis: a world wonder of c. 437 BCE (World Wonder · Athens) — c. 437 BCE, Athens. Mnesicles designed a gateway that is itself a temple-complex: Doric outside, Ionic inside, controlling how you first see
Theatre of Epidaurus: a world wonder of c. 340 BCE (World Wonder · Epidaurus, Greece) — c. 340 BCE, Epidaurus, Greece. Polykleitos the Younger cut a 14,000-seat bowl whose acoustics still carry a coin-drop from orchestra to last
Sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi: a world wonder of c. 530 BCE (World Wonder · Delphi, Greece) — c. 530 BCE, Delphi, Greece. The omphalos of the Greek world: a temple, theatre, and stadium hung on a cliff where the Pythia spoke in riddle
Tholos of Delphi: a world wonder of c. 380 BCE (World Wonder · Marmaria, Delphi) — c. 380 BCE, Marmaria, Delphi. A round temple of twenty Doric columns outside, ten Corinthian inside — a jewel-box whose cult is still debate
Palace of Knossos: a world wonder of c. 1700 BCE (World Wonder · Crete) — c. 1700 BCE, Crete. The Minoan labyrinth of courts, light-wells, and storage magazines that fed the Minotaur story — a palace without fortif
Lion Gate of Mycenae: a world wonder of c. 1250 BCE (World Wonder · Mycenae, Greece) — c. 1250 BCE, Mycenae, Greece. A relieving triangle holds two confronted lions above a megalithic lintel — the coat of arms of a Late Bronze
Treasury of Atreus: a world wonder of c. 1250 BCE (World Wonder · Mycenae) — c. 1250 BCE, Mycenae. A tholos tomb with a 14.5-metre corbelled dome, the largest spanning space in the world for over a thousand years.
Temple of Poseidon at Sounion: a world wonder of c. 444 BCE (World Wonder · Cape Sounion, Greece) — c. 444 BCE, Cape Sounion, Greece. A marble Doric temple on the last cliff of Attica, where sailors looked up and knew they were almost home.
Temple of Aphaia on Aegina: a world wonder of c. 500 BCE (World Wonder · Aegina, Greece) — c. 500 BCE, Aegina, Greece. A late Archaic temple whose pediment sculptures sit between stiff smiles and the Parthenon’s motion — a missing
Temple of Hera at Olympia: a world wonder of c. 600 BCE (World Wonder · Olympia, Greece) — c. 600 BCE, Olympia, Greece. One of the oldest surviving Doric temples, originally wood, then stone, still the stage for the modern Olympic
Terrace of the Lions, Delos: a world wonder of c. 600 BCE (World Wonder · Delos, Greece) — c. 600 BCE, Delos, Greece. Naxian marble lions once lined the Sacred Lake, a row of guardians for Apollo’s birth-island.
Monasteries of Mount Athos: a world wonder of c. 963 CE (World Wonder · Greece) — c. 963 CE, Greece. A monastic republic on a peninsula — frescoed monasteries clinging to cliffs for a millennium.
Greece — Volubus coach-hire desk (Travel desk · Athens) — Athens and Thessaloniki airport groups, island-port shuttles, and the summer coaches that move wedding and tour parties together.

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