Here lies the actual battlefield of Thermopylae, where flowers still persist, over which the enormously big Persian army of one million seven thousand Persian men with all their military equipment had to pass For two days the Spartans held a line against them – only a few dozen yards long, […]

“Have you heard the words, gymnasium and gymnastics?” They both come from the same root, from the word gymnos, which means naked and for that reason gymnasium literally means the place of the naked men. Gymnastics is the activity of the naked men, athletic nudity. Ancient Greek classical statues, depicting […]

As we drove towards Thermopylae, we listened to Costos Tsevas, our tour guide.  Soon we understood the importance of 4 days delay. With an army of 1 million 700 thousand soldiers, escorted by an enormously big navy of 1 thousand and 400 ships (the world had never seen such an […]