Munchkinland In Greece  
Intresting Facts

DID YOU KNOW... There is an 8 hour time difference between Athens and Central Time. Porto Rafti means "Port of the Tailor" and is called that because of the small bay which it surrounds, on an island in the center is a statue of a tailor. There are no actual straight lines in the Parthenon. The architects so meticulously designed it so that the optical illusions that the eyes would see if it were straight are negated by the design of the building. Slight curves in the base and the architrave, and slight swelling of the unevenly placed columns that don't actually angle straight up, all add together to give you the illusion that everything is perfectly straight and even. The typical pronouciation of the Greek Alphabet as we know it, is totally wrong. Alpha is right, but Beta is actually pronounced "vita" and in Greek it indicates a "v" sound. Over 2/3rds of the Greek Alphabet is pronounced differently than how we know it. From any point in audience of the Theater of Epidaurous you can hear someone standing in the center of the orchestra (the bottom) drop a coin, or rustle paper, or speak in a normal voice. The ancient citadel of Mycenae was the home to King Agammemnon, one of the heros of Homer's Illiad. In the early 1900s Heinrich Schliemann (sp?) excavated a set of 5 shaft tombs just inside the gate of the city. The graves were filled with rich grave goods, like beaten gold masks and jewelry and weapons. They were thought to actually be graves belonging to Agammemnon and his family, but have been discovered to predate the period of the Trojan War by around 200 years. Most of the ancient Egyptian temples that remain standing today actually date from the period of Greek control over Egypt, the reign of the Ptolomies, established by Alexander the Great. The famous Cleopatra was the last of the Ptolomaic Pharaohs.