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Greek Geography

Greek Geography. The influence of the “wine dark” seas on Greek history. Over and over in the “Odyssey”, Homer calls the waters around Greece “the wine dark sea”. The Mediterranean Sea touches three continents: Africa, Asia, and Europe.

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Greek Geography

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  1. Greek Geography The influence of the “wine dark” seas on Greek history

  2. Over and over in the “Odyssey”, Homer calls the waters around Greece “the wine dark sea”.

  3. The Mediterranean Sea touches three continents: Africa, Asia, and Europe

  4. Greece is made up of thousands of islands, hundreds of them inhabited

  5. Athens, the current capital is on the Attic peninsula

  6. Today, Sparta is a small village on the Peloponnesus peninsula

  7. Ha ha!

  8. Gigantic ferry boats carry you all over the Aegean and Ionian seas

  9. A harbor on the island of Crete, where the largest early Greek civilization started.

  10. Statue of a boy found in a Greek shipwreck

  11. Today’s Greek flag

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