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Greek Gods: Athens Acropolis
built 230 days ago
The Greeks built temples to be the gods and goddesses homes. The temples showed how wealthy and powerful the city was. Rich cities, like Athens, built temples of the best stone, and decorated them with paintings, statues and carvings.
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Greek people ... worshipped foreign gods, if for some reason they thought this might help them somehow. The Egyptian goddess Isis was especially popular in Athens in the Hellenistic period, for instance. And many Hellenistic Greeks worshipped Astarte, too.
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Herald Tribune - ATHENS, Greece: Greek authorities detained 27 illegal migrants including two men hidden in a hearse and arrested two suspected smugglers in separate incidents, officials said Monday. Twenty-five migrants, including a woman and a young girl
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