The games in Ancient Greece also commissioned the Epinicians, poems to commemorate the athletic events.
Situated on the western fringe of Greece's Dodecanese islands, Karpathos itself feels rather remote.
Gesturing to a bag laden with boxes, he explains he has travelled all the way from Greece.
His mission was to secure a series of important commercial agreements between China and Greece.
If Spain gets an easier ride than Ireland, Portugal and Greece, what happens then?
But why, I asked, did Greece have more income equality than they previously had?
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If that's not going to happen, Dumas says Greece will suffer more from prolonging the agony.
Samaras himself has said that Greece is willing to sell off its uninhabited islands.
The obvious example is in Greece, where ten-year bond yields reached 7% late last month.
Logic might suggest Greece must go but this crisis has shown politics trumps maths and economics.
And Germany took a forced loan from the Bank of Greece to cover the occupation cost.
The troika said Greece had made "significant progress" with economic reforms required to receive the funds.
The near-disaster and festering economic situation in Greece made all Eurozone creditors very nervous.
This is a question Greece is facing as its people stare into the abyss.
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Uncertainty over Greece is helping force up the borrowing costs for Spain and Italy.
Born on the island of Nissyros, Greece, Catsimatidis, 59, settled in uptown Manhattan as an infant.
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Since 2009 Greece has blocked it from offering Macedonia a date for accession talks.
The sheer arrogance of that view that the markets think Greece is doing a splendid job.
Five of the 27 EU countries do not recognise Kosovo: Spain, Greece, Romania, Slovakia and Cyprus.
All that has happened during the past 12 months is that Greece's debt has grown.
There is negative growth in Greece and Portugal and Ireland is at best flat-lining.
Germany could decide to back the more radical option and to allow Greece to default.
He famously mocked the idea of American exceptionalism, deriding her as indistinct from Britain or Greece.
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S. countries of Greece and Spain, because Cyprus was actually in a bankruptcy situation.
The worries about Greece also popped up where it looked like it may actually default.
But European officials did not say when a final decision on Greece would be announced.
If Greece does not repay its creditors, a dangerous precedent will have been set.
These potential scenarios would be made immeasurably worse if Greece were to leave the euro.
The ECB may have just presented Italy, Spain, and (maybe) Greece with this window.
The IMF dispersed around 17 billion euros to save Greece from default, also in May.
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