Greece

There are 1361 items in Greece:

A Sicilian Curse Tablet

Curse texts or defixiones are handwritten texts, often on thin plaques of lead, in which someone asks a god or demon to do evil to another person. The oldest known, very simple tablets are from Sicily and Sardinia and date…

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Abydus (Çanakkale)

Abydus: city on the southeastern shore of the Hellespont, modern Çanakkale.Abydus, already mentioned by Homer in the Iliad, note[Homer, Iliad 2.836.] was an important Greek city on a promontory on the southeastern bank of the Hellespont. That it was easy to…

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