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. Hegemony Gold: Wars Of Ancient Greece Rale-time video game with battle strategy of Phillip IIContinue 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. Or wrap your imagination around these unusual views from February 2021 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”
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”