Tag: Ancient Greek city

Thebes: The legendary port that time has not touched

While Thebes may not be a top tourist destination in Greece, it’s renowned for its rich history, earning it a spot among Europe’s oldest cities. Legend has it that Cadmus, a figure of Greek mythology, founded this city in Viotia. However, Homer’s epics credit its creation to the brothers Zethos and Amphion. As the story goes, Amphion’s lyre-playing enchanted the stones, causing them to form the famed walls of the seven-gated city on their own. Thebes and its port have a storied past that continues to this day. Thebes and ...

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The unknown ancient Greek city with the king who should not have been seen by the sun

Stories, mysteries, legends, and traditions... These accompany the various locations and cities of Greece. Places that have been more or less explored and ruins that suggest and reveal great events from antiquity. This is also the case with the ancient Greek city with the king who should not have been seen by the sun. An area unknown to many but impressing you with what it can do to you "narrate" through what is left there. The reason for Oiniades, an ancient city in Aitoloakarnania. It is the second ancient Greek ...

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