Beyond it I noted a small green column, about twelve feet below the present ground level -- the Serpentine Column, three entwined serpents, which once stood at the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, Greece.

In Greece, zucchini is usually fried or boiled with other fruits ( often green chili peppers and eggplants ).

The heroes then travel to Greece to find the peaceful green countryside destroyed and in flames which is evidence of Prometheus's attacks.

The Verde Antique columns and pilasters in the Ante Room at Syon House are made out of marble not Scagliola as it is widely perceived ( a beautiful and rare, predominantly green marble that was quarried in Larissa of Greece since antiquity ).

Pelion is considered one of the most beautiful mountains in Greece and is a popular tourist attraction throughout the year: hiking trails and stone paths give access to springs, coves and numerous beaches, sandy or pebbly, set among lusciously green slopes.

Filothei () is a green, affluent northeastern suburb of Athens, Greece, consisting mainly of hillside villas, relatively close to the Olympic Stadium.

To the west, the mountains surrounding Pyrgos are full of some of the most beautiful green marble in all of Greece.

The name verdigris comes from the Middle English vertegrez, from the Old French verte grez, an alteration of vert-de-Grèce (" green of Greece ").

Since it was used as a pigment in paintings and other art objects ( as green color ), it was required by artists in Greece.

The flag of Zakynthos, Greece, or Flag of Zante, has a dark green background with an orange depiction of Zakynthos, the mytho-historical first resident of the island and its namesake, in the centre.

A meaningful element are the glass beads ( of blue, green and white colors ) that are found in this culture and which have been related with similar findings in Egypt ( Amarna ), Mycenaen Greece ( dated in the 14th century BC ), the British culture of Wessex ( dated c. 1400 BC ) and some sites in France.

In ancient Greece, the amaranth ( also called chrysanthemum and helichrysum ) was sacred to Ephesian Artemis.

One is Greece is not yet suffering from overpopulation.

The charge is variable, however, and goes as low as $.50 a day in Ireland and as high as $2.00 a day in Greece.

Anthropology in Greece and Portugal is greatly influenced by British anthropology.

It is more probable that this art was introduced later from Anatolia and regenerated an existing oracular cult that was local to Delphi and dormant in several areas of Greece.

The inspiration oracular cult was probably introduced into Greece from Anatolia, which is the origin of Sibyl, and where existed some of the oldest oracular shrines.

In classical Greece the emphasis is not given to the illusive imaginative reality represented by the ideal forms, but to the analogies and the interaction of the members in the whole, a method created by Polykleitos.

Kouros ( male youth ) is the modern term given to those representations of standing male youths which first appear in the archaic period in Greece.

* Angola is represented in Bulgaria through its embassy in Athens ( Greece ).

The Aegean Sea (;, Aigaio Pelagos ; or historically ) is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea located between the southern Balkan and Anatolian peninsulas, i. e., between the mainlands of Greece and Turkey.

Ammonius asks Plutarch what he, being a Boeotian, has to say for Cadmus, the Phoenician who reputedly settled in Thebes and introduced the alphabet to Greece, placing alpha first because it is the Phoenician name for ox — which, unlike Hesiod, the Phoenicians considered not the second or third, but the first of all necessities.

* 1820 – Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria, a secret organization to overthrow Ottoman rule over Greece.

Athens (;, Athína ; ; Katharevousa: Ἀθῆναι, Athinai ; Ancient Greek: Ἀθῆναι, Athēnai ) is the capital and largest city of Greece.

Today a cosmopolitan metropolis, modern Athens is central to economic, financial, industrial, political and cultural life in Greece.

It is a municipality in the Serres regional unit of Macedonia, Greece.

He was reckoned by some ancient authors as one of the Seven Sages of Greece, and it is said that he was initiated into the Eleusinian Mysteries of the Great Goddess, a privilege denied to those who did not speak fluent Greek.

* 1897 – The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire.

Although there are many other acropoleis in Greece, the significance of the Acropolis of Athens is such that it is commonly known as " The Acropolis " without qualification.

This " Persian debris " is the richest archaeological deposit excavated on the Acropolis and is well known throughout Greece.

An example of ancient aesthetics in Greece through poetry is Plato's quote: " For the authors of those great poems which we admire, do not attain to excellence through the rules of any art ; but they utter their beautiful melodies of verse in a state of inspiration, and, as it were, possessed by a spirit not their own.

Abae (, Abai ) is an ancient town in the northeastern corner of Phocis, in Greece.

In classical Greece he was the god of light and of music, but in popular religion he had a strong function to keep away evil.

Crete is one of the most popular holiday destinations in Greece.

Couscous is also very popular in France, where it is now considered a traditional dish, and has also become popular in Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Greece.

Gambling with two or three dice was a very popular form of amusement in Greece, especially with the upper classes, and an invariable accompaniment to symposia.

Established state-run and commercial TV networks broadcast nationally and compete actively against each other, and hundreds of thousands of viewers subscribe to satellite pay-TV services. Domestically-made variety programmes, comedies and game shows dominate the peak-time TV schedules and are highly popular and widely shown in Greece.

Recently, fast-food has also become more popular in Greece and Europe, with local chains such as Goody's springing up, but the McDonald's have mainly closed down.

* Amygdalotá or pastéli exist in many varieties throughout Greece and Cyprus, and are especially popular in the islands.

These are some of the more popular throughout Greece:

When war broke out between Russia and the Ottomans in 1877, Greek popular sentiment rallied to Russia's side, but Greece was too poor, and too concerned of British intervention, to officially enter the war.

Patterning itself after Benito Mussolini's Fascist Italy, Metaxas ' regime promoted various concepts such as the " Third Hellenic Civilization ", the Roman salute, a national youth organization, and introduced measures to gain popular support, such as the Greek Social Insurance Institute ( IKA ), still the biggest social security institution in Greece.

Another version of this story can be found in popular belief, mostly in Greece.

* 1935 – George II of Greece regains his throne through a popular plebiscite.

* In Greece, oregano flavored chips are very popular.

These cigarettes are popular in Australia, Greece, New Zealand, Zambia and South Africa.

The word " sophistry " developed strong negative connotations in ancient Greece that continue today, but in ancient Greece sophists were nevertheless popular and well-paid professionals, widely respected for their abilities but also widely criticized for their excesses.

They also claim that the belief that solar deities are primarily male is linked to the fact that a few better known mythologies ( such as those of late classical Greece and late Roman mythology ) rarely break from this rule, although closer examination of the earlier myths of those cultures reveal a very different distribution than the contemporary popular belief.

Over the years, Turkey has emerged as a popular tourist destination for many Europeans, competing with Greece, Italy and Spain.

In the early 1960s he was one of the founders of pop group The Forminx ( or The Formynx ), which became popular in Greece.

In addition to its historic roots, Thessaloniki is also a very popular tourist destination in Greece.

On the first Sunday of November 1941, high school students from all over Corfu took part in student protests against the occupying Italian army ; these student protests of the island were among the first acts of overt popular Resistance in occupied Greece and a rare phenomenon even by wartime European standards.

Both Plato's cave and Platonism have meaningful, not just superficial connections, because Plato's ideas were preceded and probably influenced by the hugely popular Pythagoreans of ancient Greece, who believed that the world was, quite literally, generated by numbers.

Water polo is now popular in many countries around the world, notably Europe ( particularly in Serbia, Russia, Croatia, Italy, Montenegro, Greece and Hungary ), the United States, Canada and Australia.