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Athens (
capital and largest city in Greece, dominates the Attica periphery: as one of the world's oldest cities, its recorded history spans at least 3,000 years.In ancient Greek, the name of Athens was αἱ Ἀθῆναι Greek pronunciation: [hai̯ atʰɛ̂ːnaj], related tο ἡ Ἀθηνᾶ [hɛː atʰɛːnâː] and its dialectal variant ἡ Ἀθήνη [hɛː atʰɛ̌ːnɛː], the Attic and Ionic names respectively of the goddess Athena
, the goddess of disciplined war and wisdom.
The city of Sparta lay at the southern end of the central Laconian plain, on the right bank of the
Gythium
—made it difficult to blockade.
Hellespont (
mythology of the Golden Fleece
.
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Macedon or Macedonia (
Greek history
.
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Thebes Classic Greek: Θηβαι, Thēbai,
Attica
, and on the southern edge of the Boeotian plain.
Thermopylae Xerxes, numbering in the hundreds of thousands, and the term since has been used to reference heroic resistance against a more powerful enemy
Pergamon or Pergamum (
.Corinth, or Korinth (
Peloponnesus to the mainland of Greece. To the west of the isthmus lies the Gulf of Corinth, to the east lies the Saronic Gulf. Corinth is about 48 miles (78 km) west of Athens
. The isthmus, which was in ancient times traversed by hauling ships over the rocky ridge on sledges, is now cut by a canal.