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''Think of [[Crystal Spires and Togas]], but'' ''[[Dissimile|without the crystal spires]] [[Ancient Rome|or the togas.]]''
Home of columned temples, chiton-wearing gods, slinkily dressed goddesses, amazons, and bearded philosophers. Also home to mythic thong-wearing heroes who ride winged horses and do great deeds (all without getting either chafed ''or'' sunburnt). The [[The Spartan Way|Spartans]] live here too, and they're known for their [[Training from Hell|brutal training methods]], stylish [[Bullet Time|slow-motion fighting techniques]] and for being manly enough to charge nearly naked into battle even when outnumbered 70 to 1. And they ''[[Blatant Lies|definitely]]'' [[Ho Yay|aren't gay]]. Frequently [[Ancient Grome|confused]] with [[Ancient Rome]] by directors who [[They Just Didn't Care|just don't care]].
In fact, this picture is a [[Anachronism Stew|blend]] of two distinct periods; mythical Greece, conventionally said to end with the [[Trojan War]] around 1000BC, and classical Greece, home to the first philosophers. The "classical Greece" period itself tends to [[Cultural Blending|blend cultures]] that evolved and combined over the course of many centuries. Until Athens pulled the city-states together for defense against Persia, Greece didn't have a monolithic culture; it was the sum of the cultures of many independent city-states, all angling to make their patron gods the most important, and all ultimately blended together in the giant food processor of history. If you were to visit the Balkan Peninsula in, say, Pythagoras' day, you'd find that religious practices and social mores varied heavily depending on what city you were in.
{{tropelist|Popular tropes that feature this time period are}}
* [[Achilles' Heel]]
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* [[Let's Fight Like Gentlemen]]: It was a common lament during the Peleponesian War that new weapons and tactics had made the manly phalanx fighting obsolete.
* [[Love Potion]] (Eros's arrows)
* [[Lucid Dream]]: The Greeks are aware of lucid dreaming. [[Aristotle]], wrote in "[http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/dreams.1b.txt On Dreams]"
*[[Our Dwarves Are Different]]: According to historian Victor Davis Hanson they were usually about five foot tall, and while they preferred a track star build as an image of male beauty usually had knotted muscles from pushing plows. They went into battle lugging tons of armor and, well, just look at [[Socrates]]. In other words they were [[Fridge Logic|Dwarves.]] On the other hand they did not live underground, they were great sailors, and were famous for philosophy and art. So maybe they were [[Fridge Brillance|both elves and Dwarves?]]▼
{{quote|...often when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.}}
▲* [[Our Dwarves Are Different]]: According to historian Victor Davis Hanson they were usually about five foot tall, and while they preferred a track star build as an image of male beauty usually had knotted muscles from pushing plows. They went into battle lugging tons of armor and, well, just look at [[Socrates]]. In other words they were [[Fridge Logic|Dwarves.]] On the other hand they did not live underground, they were great sailors, and were famous for philosophy and art. So maybe they were [[Fridge
* [[Physical God]]
* [[Salt the Earth]]: Zig-zagged. Invading armies would certainly go after the enemies agriculture if seldom using actual salt. However the project was much to difficult and what they were really doing was holding the land hostage to get their enemies to come out and fight, because land was held to equal liberty in sanctity.
* [[The Spartan Way]]
* [[Training from Hell]]
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* ''[[300|Three Hundred]]''
* ''[[Clash of the Titans]]'' and ''[[Jason and the Argonauts]]'' -- [[Harryhausen Movie]]s.
* ''[[Hercules (1997 film)
* ''[[Troy]]''
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* ''[[The Aeneid]]''
* ''[[The Metamorphoses]]''
* [[Terry Pratchett]] 's ''[[
* [[Gene Wolfe]]'s ''[[Soldier of the Mist]]'' and ''Soldier of Arete'' tell the story of a mercenary in Xerces' army who does something to offend the gods, and is cursed with forgetting everything that happens more than a day ago, but who can see the gods. [[Gene Wolfe|Wolfe]] "translates" place names (for example, [[The Spartan Way|Sparta]] is "Rope", and they fought the "Great King" at "Hot Springs"), lending a sense of immediacy, and distancing the book from the familiarity of the trope.
* ''The Firebrand'' by [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]].
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== [[Live
* ''[[Hercules: The Legendary Journeys]]''
* ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'': Though the series is ''also'' happening at the time of [[Ancient Rome]]. The writers never tried to respect chronology.
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* ''[[Kid Icarus]]''
* ''[[Empire Earth]]''
* ''[[Age of Empires (video game)
* The ''[[Civilization]]'' series when playing as Greece.
* The first two games in the ''[[Hegemony Series]]''.
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* ''[http://www.bigheadpress.com/otr Odysseus the Rebel]''
* ''[http://prometheuscomic.wordpress.com/ Prometheus!]''
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20180721220127/http://amazoness.co.uk/ Amazoness!]''
* ''[[Rumors of War]]'': Somewhere between the Late Bronze Age and the Classical Period, presumably in the Greek Dark Ages.
* In ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'', this is seemingly where the Holiday figures (Santa Claus, Tom Turkey, etc.) got their origins.
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[[Category:Liddell and Scott Greek-English Lexicon]]
[[Category:Hollywood History]]
▲[[Category:Ancient Greece]]
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