Helle, however, looked down and fell to her death in the sea below (the Hellespont). Phrixus survived, sacrificed the ram and took its golden fleece. The sudden disappearance of Pompeii and the ...

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Helle, however, looked down and fell to her death in the sea below (the Hellespont). Phrixus survived, sacrificed the ram and took its golden fleece. Given the quality and extent of the murals ...

Byron swam the Hellespont, and when Shelley was away from water he "languished so acutely that only by plunging his head into a washbasin could he revive his spirits." Their example added ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - A local woman is giving back to the hospital that cared for her after a heart attack. From room to room, Troas Cleveland is always on the go at St. Francis Hospital Memphis. “My ...

The Ministry of Culture is advancing the conservation, restoration, and protection of building materials and ceramic pithoi at the archaeological site of “Archontiki” on the island of Psara in the ...

Homer said the classical city of Troy overlooked the Hellespont, which today is known as the Dardanelles. In the 1870s, an archaeologist named Heinrich Schliemann found evidence of several ancient ...

The upper section of the plaque features an ancient Greek inscription from the 5th century BCE, originally dedicated to Athenian soldiers who died at the Hellespont – the site of modern-day Gallipoli.

He took it as his duty to continue his father’s mission to subjugate Greece. In 480 BC, the vast Persian army, led by King Xerxes, crossed the Hellespont and moved south to Greece. Themistocles, the ...

Paul visited Lystra and Derbe once again then went to Troas (Troy). While in Troas, Paul saw a vision of Macedonian who begged him to “come and help us”. He boarded a boat and sailed straight across ...

Harpalus is known in ancient history as the man who built the famous pontoon bridge used by Xerxes to cross the Hellespont in 480 BC. This information comes, primarily, from the ancient historian ...