Greece

Greece never ruled Rome. Although there were Greek cities in Sicily and there were Greek colonies in southern Italy called Magna Grecia, the Greeks were never dominant and Rome overcame and absorbed them.

146 BC was actually the year of the Romans conquest of mainland Greece. In 148 BC the Romans defeated the Kingdom of Macedon, the largest and dominant state in Greece, in the Fourth Macedonian War. In 146 BC they annexed Macedon and turned it into a province of the Roman Empire. In the same year the city-states of the Achaean League fought the Romans. They lost and the whole of mainland Greece was annexed into the Roman Empire.

As for the Greek city-states in mainland Italy, they were conquered by the Romans after the Pyrrhic War (280-275 BC). All but one of the Greek city-states in Sicily were conquered by Rome in the First Punic War (264-241 BC) which was fought in Sicily between the Carthaginians and the Romans. Syracuse, the last independent Greek city-state in Sicily, was conquered by the Romans in 212 BC.

There was a strong Greek presence in western Turkey dating from their settlement there nearly three thousand years before. These people had come under Turkish rule in the 15th Century CE.

After World War I when Turkey was defeated in 1918, Greece tried reclaim the these cities and war between Greece and Turkey continued on until 1923, when Greece gave up and evacuated the people of Greek origin who wanted to leave back to Greece.

Interestingly, two and a half thousand years earlier, when the Persian invasion of Greece was defeated, Sparta wanted to evacuate these Greeks in Asia Minor to stop the ongoing trouble they caused with Persia. Athens had another plan - to free the cities and turn them into an empire of it's own. So the Greeks stayed until 1923 before the Spartan plan was implemented 2500 years late.

Murica did it instead with the Marshall Plan.

It all depends entirely on how efficient your engine is, how fast you drive, when you drive, the route you take, the weight of the car and of course the type of car used.

Greece - we assume is Athens.

We are also taking a ferry from Italy to Greece and not going via Slovenia, Croatia and Albania

However, taking a "normal" car, driving normally and getting on average 40 miles to the gallon.

The trip is about 1,700 miles so that would be 42.5 gallons

His parents left Greece when he was a baby.

I think it broke down in 341B.C.E.

Ancient Greek theaters were usually amphitheaters in the Classical sense, which means they had a semicircle of stadium seating. The Globe is also a form of amphitheater, but it has three rows of seating set on top of each other with standing room in front of the stage. Aside from that, Ancient Greek theaters are generally found in Greece and date from 2-3 thousand years ago, and the Globe is in London and (ignoring the rebuilding) is roughly 400 years old.

The Trojan war was a war. Two countries were fighting to learn more about it read the Oddesey by Homer

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Greece fought against Troy in the Trojan War. In the end, the Trojans were defeated. Although there is no evidence suggesting the existence of Troy, aside from the Iliad, Aeneid, and, The Odyssey, and other historical Greek Literatures. Despite claims of the existence of Troy from many researchers, there is not hard proof of the existence of Troy, which is why the majority believe the Trojan War was just another piece of Greek Mythology. There are many different beginnings to the Trojan War, all ending the same. Personally, I am most familiar with the one involving the Greek Gods. Even saying that, the storyline remains the same. Athena, Aphrodite, and Hera, the three goddesses had a quarrel on who is the fairest of the three. Zeus being king of all gods, sent them to Paris of Troy, to decide. Each goddess offered him something different in exchange. He took Aphrodite's offer: The love of the most beautiful mortal woman in the world, Helen of Sparta, who was also Aphrodite's mortal sister. Paris of Troy, had fallen in love with Helen, the wife of Menelaus, King of Sparta. Helen, in return was shot by cupids arrow and fallen in love with him too, as promised by Aphrodite. She was taken by Paris, and they both sailed to Troy. Upon discovering the abduction of his wife, Menelaus travelled to Troy, in order to retrieve Helen, but was unsuccessful, which resulted in War between the Trojans and Sparta. The War was lead by Menelaus's brother, Agamemnon and lasted between eight and ten years. Coming to the end of the war, the Greeks made a giant, hollow, wooden horse, sacred to the Trojans, as a gift for friendship. However, they did not know the horse was filled with Greek soldiers inside, lead by Odysseus. After the Trojans discovered the Greeks were gone, they "Joyfully dragged the horse inside the city". Cassandra and Laocoön warned the Trojans against keeping the horse, but nobody believed them. The Trojan horse was kept, and in the dead of night, the Greeks entered the city, killing the sleeping population. Helen was intended to be killed, but Menelaus was overcome by her beauty and threw down his sword, and took her to the ships. Cassandra was raped on Athena's altar, while she was clinging to her statue, by Ajax the Lesser, and was then awarded to Agamemnon, while Poseidon had sent two sea serpents to strangle and kill Laocoön and his two sons. Ajax the Lesser fell into the sea and drowned as a punishment from Athena and Poseidon for raping a women on a Virgin Goddesses temple. Cassandra and Agamemnon were killed by Agamemnon's wife, who was having an affair with his cousin. Agamemnon's son avenged his fathers murder with his sister and succeeded to his throne.

Santorini is not so big island...from north to south is about 35 kilometers and about one hour driving direct from Akrotiri village in south part of the island to the Village of Oia at northern side of Santorini.

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The sculptures were stolen and should therefore be returned.

YES. Meat is very popular in Greece and it is almost impossible to find vegetarian restaurants in Greece. Chicken and pork are the two most popular meets, but beef and lamb are also widely consumed. Greece is also known for its seafood, and just about every conceivable fish, crustacean, and mollusk is consumed.

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The primary bodies of water near Greece are the Aegean Sea to the east, between Greece and Turkey, and the Ionian Sea to the west, between Greece and Italy.

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Pagans as in people who believe in the gods and goddesses of Greek Paganism such as Zeus, Hades, and Poseidon? If yes, then there are people who keep their ancestors faith.

Many of Greece's rulers also controlled N. Africa. Allowing both to share culture and history with each other.

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Thales, Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato, & Aristotle, to name a few. Thales is probably not widely known but is considered the first philosopher.