"It's overwhelmingly accepted that the Greeks were the superior fighting force in equipment and training, if not in numbers, and far better prepared for the battle than the Persians who faced them."
"His mission was to liberate all Greeks from Macedonian domination."
"It is through this rich tapestry of innovations that Greek religion found its unique expression, intertwining the spiritual, human, mythical, and historical."
"These Knights Errant came from all throughout Central and Western Europe and America, and were collectively known as Philhellenes: romantic lovers of Greek culture."
"The victory at Dervenakia was a triumph for the Hellenic cause, but it cast a long shadow, as thinly veiled rivalries began to boil to the surface."
"The day belonged to the Greeks, but the triumph at Missolonghi was a victory that would bear bitter fruit, for as Ottoman incursions into the Peloponnese had stopped for the time being, the Hellenes no longer had a common enemy to unite them."
"It was not quite the freedom that Greece had hoped for, but it was freedom nonetheless."
"The key to the Greek victory in these straits was their ability to maintain a close ordered formation."
"New excavations reveal advanced civilization on a remote Greek island, potentially rewriting history."
"It's the oldest known submerged ancient Greek settlement and one of the oldest sites in the world."
"The Achaemenid dynasty is most famous for attempting to invade Greece."
"You cannot stand, as a tourist, in the Epidaurus theater without understanding that the entire theatrical tradition of the world started there."
"The Battle of Marathon was a watershed moment in the history of the ancient world."
"The final defeat of the Persians ushered in a new golden age for Greece."
"The anti-kythera mechanism: an ancient Greek hand-powered model of the solar system."
"A true testament to heroism and the legendary Greek icon Achilles."
"The dying age of independent Greek city-states finally gave way to an era of monarchical rule."
"After Amphipolis, the two symbols of hawkish politics in Greece and Sparta were dead."
"The Parthenon is proof of the superb building techniques of the ancient Greeks."
"The rise of Athens to a leading position among Greek cities was due to democracy."
"From the decipherment of their written language, we know now as Linear B, we can tell that they did indeed speak a version of Greek."
"They were reputed to have a great love for Greek women and an even greater love for Greek wine."
"The Greek people have existed for Millennia yet there has never been a truly Greek State ever come into existence."
"Meteora, Greece: monasteries atop natural rock formations."
"The Greeks viewed this war as being about freedom."
"Nice, founded by Greeks from Marseille who fought against their neighbors in Liguria and won, naming the city after the goddess of victory."
"The Greeks weren't unified people yet, each city is its own independent nation."
"The Persians are the Uber adversary, the arch nemesis, right of the Greeks from the you know classical era and after a while you know you become a little curious about these people."
"The so-called Greek Miracle would not have been possible without the contributions of the Egyptians."
"The ancient Greeks had what I'm going to call a qualitative view of the physical universe."
"For all their attempts to impose their rule on each other, they only succeeded in losing their ability to rule themselves."
"It became a byword for Greek heroism in the face of insurmountable odds."
"Cultures can change for the better, and I think the Greek culture has changed for the better."
"This coin is from about 450 BC, nearly 2,500 years old."
"The Macedonian Renaissance witnessed a Revival of interest in classical Greek literature, philosophy, and science."
"Sparta was one of the most powerful, if not the most powerful state in all Greece."
"The Greek ideal of the body is seen in one of the period's most famous statues, the Discobolus."
"The body of the Statue of Zeus was covered in ivory, and his clothes in gold."
"The dream of Greek freedom burns as bright as ever."
"What Greek Agora do not have is that central focus of having a single temple on one end dominating the space in front of it."
"The Battle of Marathon looms so large in history today only because the Athenians wanted it to."
"The Peloponnesian wars, the quintessential event that defined and demonstrated the most extreme characteristics of the classical Greek world."
"Syracuse went on to become the most powerful and important Greek polis in the west."
"The Greeks sort of more or less completely forget about Mycenaean civilization and that at the end of the Dark Ages they're unaware of there having been a discontinuity in their past."
"Mycenaean Greece was the first civilization to emerge in Greece and is the direct ancestor of the later classical Greek civilization."
"The two best-known products of the Greek Archaic period are the two epics of Homer."
"He had done what no Greek before him had done and vanquished their primary enemy."
"There's a big mystery at the heart of ancient Greek warfare, and what you think you know may be wrong."
"Greek fire was a weapon that the ancient Greeks used to spray fire over long distances."
"...that requires you to look at both Thucydides and Xenophon with a touch of Diodorus."
"Afraid so," Annabeth said. "The Clazmonian Sow. It terrorized Greek towns back in the day."
"The age of the polis is over; no longer will men primarily identify with their home city."
"If there ever was a Trojan War, the Hittites would have almost certainly been involved as adversaries of the Greeks."