Visit Ancient Greece while playing games? Yes, gamers can become scholars by playing these games with realistic backdrops. Recommended by a Greek in the Greek Reporter. Spartan Wars: Blood And Fire — A real-time mobile game with very high reviews. NyxQuest: Kindred Spirits — You too can be a god or goddess. 0 A.D. —Continue reading “Best Ancient Greece Games”
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New Light on Ancient Athens
Take two minutes for a new perspective of well known sites. Everything else about visiting ancient Athens
Neither Ancient Nor Modern
Old photos of ancient Athens taken before 1900–and a painting from 1787.
Humor for ancient Greeks
An ancient Greek professor goes to a tailor to get his trousers mended. The tailor asks: “Euripides?” The professor replies: “Yes. Eumenides?” This is worthy of a Christmas cracker joke as long as you are up on ancient Greece. Euripides (480 – 406BC), pronounced like “You-rip-a-these”, was a great Athenian playwright and The Eumenides, “You-mend-a-these”,Continue reading “Humor for ancient Greeks”
Fun Activities to Do In Sydney
Sydney is Australia’s largest and most popular city. This city has a lot of tourist attractions to offer to both locals and tourists. From the Sydney Opera House to Sydney Harbour Bridge to the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney, there are so many attractions you can explore in this beautiful city. If you are planning aContinue reading “Fun Activities to Do In Sydney”
Gates of Athens
Persia vs Athens: Including the Persian point of view . . . On the plains of Marathon an army of slaves gathers . . . Under Darius the Great, King of Kings, the mighty Persian army – swollen by 10,000 Immortal warriors – have come to subjugate the Greeks. In their path, vastly outnumbered, standsContinue reading “Gates of Athens”
Assassin’s Creed
I have seen some great ancient Greek images in screen shots of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. Some of which made an effort to be authentic, some didn’t. Here are a few I have found to whet your appetite. If you have some that are better, please contact me and I will put them up here. AContinue reading “Assassin’s Creed”
Athens Highlights
Quick photo guide to ancient Athens
Mycenae Citadel 2019
In 2019 we returned to the Peloponnese to visit a few ancient Greek sites that we had missed before. Below is a photo journal created by Karin with a little editing by Michael. It is an evocative, personalised account of what we saw at this ancient monument. Our main page for Mycenae is HERE TheContinue reading “Mycenae Citadel 2019”
ToposText: Ancient meets App
With this app you can walk, ride or drive through the Greek countryside and not only identify the ruins along the road but also read what the ancients themselves had to say about them. ToposText maps more than 5,000 places connected with the ancient Greek world: ancient cities and shrines, medieval castles and towers, modernContinue reading “ToposText: Ancient meets App”