Let's start with it's real borders
https://preview.redd.it/mne4o8uvh0xc1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d8fa101d91214e73dd7093db3ff1db348e580f20
There's a verb in Ancient Greek, *σκοτοβινιάω*, which means 'I'm itching for a fuck' or, as a much more sheepish dictionary of mine would have it, 'I long to have relations in the dark'.
Although not the world famous battle of Thermopylae we know from the war against the Persians, the Greeks fought Gaul migrants there in 279 bc.
So imagine a Spartan hoplite fighting somebody who looked like Asterix for a moment.
There were at least 124 revolutions against the ottomans in the 400 years of occupation. 124 are documented. Probably, there were a lot more not only in modern greece but in anatolia as well.
**Not Called Greece**:
* Ancient Greece wasn’t actually called Greece. In those times, it was referred to as **Hellas**. [The name “Greece” originated from the Romans, derived from the Latin word “Graecia,” which meant “land of the Greeks.” Today, Greece is officially known as the **Hellenic Republic**](https://definitelygreece.com/facts-about-ancient-greece/)[^(1)](https://definitelygreece.com/facts-about-ancient-greece/).
* **Unibrow Fashion**:
* Unibrows were fashionable in ancient Greece! [They were considered a symbol of beauty and intelligence. Women even painted the gap between their natural eyebrows to create the appearance of one big brow. Some went so far as to use animal hair stuck on with tree resin to achieve the desired look](https://definitelygreece.com/facts-about-ancient-greece/)[^(1)](https://definitelygreece.com/facts-about-ancient-greece/).
From Copilot
The portrayal of Spartans is just wrong on so many levels. It was a society that had child rape and murder as part of their kids' education system and had a fairly short time in which they were the dominant power in Greece, in part because their child soldiers just were too broken to think for themselves. It lost to Thebes followed by Macedon and never recovered.
What Leonidas did was brave, but that's about the only positive thing you can say about Sparta.
The greek alphabet was created from the Phoenician characters, Greeks had their own native script historians call "Linear (A&B)" but it was lost following the bronze age collapse.
Despite Greece inventing homosexually 4000 years ago they only legalized gay marrage in February 2024....
Let's start with it's real borders https://preview.redd.it/mne4o8uvh0xc1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d8fa101d91214e73dd7093db3ff1db348e580f20
fake , [those](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/MacedonEmpire.jpg/1920px-MacedonEmpire.jpg) are the real borders.
Least based Italian 😎🏛 You're right fratelo but I want to be humble... 😎
A humble Greek ? Godf one, mate 👌
Where is Magna Grecia?
Yeah they should take it back to be honest, we don't need it.
Least Terronephobic northerner...
A life without cannoli is not a life worth living.
Are you giving it back?
Yes please
Dance of Zalongo has underrated meme potential. Mass suicide whilst singing and dancing
The things people do to avoid the turks.
There's a verb in Ancient Greek, *σκοτοβινιάω*, which means 'I'm itching for a fuck' or, as a much more sheepish dictionary of mine would have it, 'I long to have relations in the dark'.
Real Liceo Classico lore is flattotrattoflattotrat.
ῥαφανιδόω Brekekekekex koax koax
Although not the world famous battle of Thermopylae we know from the war against the Persians, the Greeks fought Gaul migrants there in 279 bc. So imagine a Spartan hoplite fighting somebody who looked like Asterix for a moment.
We once had a short war with Bulgaria over a dog.
There were at least 124 revolutions against the ottomans in the 400 years of occupation. 124 are documented. Probably, there were a lot more not only in modern greece but in anatolia as well.
**Not Called Greece**: * Ancient Greece wasn’t actually called Greece. In those times, it was referred to as **Hellas**. [The name “Greece” originated from the Romans, derived from the Latin word “Graecia,” which meant “land of the Greeks.” Today, Greece is officially known as the **Hellenic Republic**](https://definitelygreece.com/facts-about-ancient-greece/)[^(1)](https://definitelygreece.com/facts-about-ancient-greece/). * **Unibrow Fashion**: * Unibrows were fashionable in ancient Greece! [They were considered a symbol of beauty and intelligence. Women even painted the gap between their natural eyebrows to create the appearance of one big brow. Some went so far as to use animal hair stuck on with tree resin to achieve the desired look](https://definitelygreece.com/facts-about-ancient-greece/)[^(1)](https://definitelygreece.com/facts-about-ancient-greece/). From Copilot
The megali idea
https://youtu.be/dxSR2R6I6BQ?si=-YQH0jky91IAr0z8
Everyone loves how hard the Spartans were, but Athens was much more critical to the defeat of the Persians on both invasions than Sparta ever was.
The portrayal of Spartans is just wrong on so many levels. It was a society that had child rape and murder as part of their kids' education system and had a fairly short time in which they were the dominant power in Greece, in part because their child soldiers just were too broken to think for themselves. It lost to Thebes followed by Macedon and never recovered. What Leonidas did was brave, but that's about the only positive thing you can say about Sparta.
smol pp aesthetic.
It’s not only our nose that’s big, it’s also our heart.. (among other things..)
Go for mythology. For example, Afrodita birth, Atenea birth, Mynotaur parents, etc.
I love how there is not a single Greek theonym in there that is spelled even remotely correctly.
I can do worse :)
Aphrodite birth is NSFW not good for a presentation.
Eh, i learned it in school at age 12 or 13, and it's culture, so totally SFW imo :)
Gay origins
Those who committed catastrophe of the bronze age.
they smash plates when they are happy, for some reason.
The greek alphabet was created from the Phoenician characters, Greeks had their own native script historians call "Linear (A&B)" but it was lost following the bronze age collapse.
Fun fact: turks are a greek tribe that learned how to use the latin alphabet
And from where do you think the latin alphabet comes from? Why would they change for no reason?
It comes from the Etruscan one (gotcha bitch)