What city does all the roads in Greece lead to?

Answer 1

The expression all roads lead to Greece does not exist. The actual expression is all roads lead to Rome.

The expression “all roads lead to Rome” is a modern rewording of medieval expressions which are thought to have originated as a reference to the Militarium Aureum (Golden Milestone) and to Roman roads. The Golden Milestone was a monument erected by Augustus near the temple of Saturn in the forum, the heart of the city of Rome. All roads were considered to start from this monument and all distances in the Roman Empire were measured from this point. The oldest record one of these expressions comes from Alain de Lille, a French theologian and poet who in 1175 wrote ‘A thousand roads lead men forever to Rome.” The oldest from in English comes dates from 1391, from Geoffrey Chaucer’s Treatise on the Astrolabe (an essay on an instrument used by astronomers and navigators). He wrote: “Right as diverse pathes leden the folk the righte wey to Rome.”