Famous Statues in Greece
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Kouros of Apollonas
The Kouros of Apollonas, also called the Colossus of Dionysus, is a 10.7 metre tall unfinished statue of light grey Naxian marble with a…
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Plato
Plato was an Athenian philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, founder of the Platonist school of thought and the Academy…
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Statue of Eleftherios Venizelos
Eleftherios Kyriakou Venizelos was a Cretan Greek statesman and prominent leader of the Greek national liberation movement.
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Greece crowning Lord Byron
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron,, simply known as Lord Byron, was an English poet and peer.
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Panagis Vallianos
Panayis Athanase Vagliano was a Greek merchant and shipowner, acclaimed as the 'father of modern Greek shipping'.
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Dance of Zalongo
Dance of Zalongo Greek: Χορός του Ζαλόγγου, Horos tou Zalongou) refers to the mass suicide of Souliote women and their children that is…
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Diagoras of Rhodes
Diagoras of Rhodes was an Ancient Greek boxer from the 5th century BC, who was celebrated for his own victories, as well as the victories…
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Socrates
Socrates was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as a founder of Western philosophy and the first moral philosopher of the…
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Odysseas Elytis
Odysseas Elytis was a Greek poet, essayist and translator, regarded as a major exponent of romantic modernism in Greece and the world.
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King Pyrrhus I
Pyrrhus was a Greek king and statesman of the Hellenistic period. He was king of the Molossians, of the royal Aeacid house, and later he…
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Theodoros Kolokotronis
Theodoros Kolokotronis was a Greek general and the pre-eminent leader of the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire.
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Georgios Karaiskakis
Georgios Karaiskakis, born Georgios Karaiskos, was a famous Greek military commander and a leader of the Greek War of Independence.
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Statue of Zeus at Olympia
The Statue of Zeus at Olympia was a giant seated figure, about 12.4 m tall, made by the Greek sculptor Phidias around 435 BC at the…
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Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz
Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz was a Greek-Polish athlete who fought as a saboteur in the Greek Resistance during World War II and was executed by…
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Anastasios Polyzoidis
Anastasios Polyzoidis was a Greek politician and judicial official.
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