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''Think of [[Crystal Spires and Togas]], but'' ''[[Dissimile|without the crystal spires]] [[Ancient Rome|or the togas.]]''

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.

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* [[Achilles' Heel]]

* [[Achilles in His Tent]]

* [[Training From Hell]]

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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

== [[Film]] ==

* ''[[300|Three Hundred]]''

* ''[[Hercules (Disney film)|Hercules]]''

* ''[[Troy]]''

== [[Literature]] ==

* [[David Gemmell]]'s ''Lion of Macedon'' is a retelling of Alexander the Great (or, rather, his dad).

** ''[[The Iliad]]''

** ''[[Odyssey|The Odyssey]]''