Posted on 08/09/2006 10:32:22 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Metropolis -- dating back to 725 B.C. -- gets its name from the temple of mother goddess Meter Gallesia found in the area and thus means "the city of the mother goddess"... A number of rectangular stones, columns and epitaphs unearthed during the acropolis excavations indicate that Metropolis was the second settlement in Anatolia after Bodrum to house a temple of Ares -- the Olympian war god and son of Zeus in Greek mythology and Mars, the god of war in Roman mythology.
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It's all greek to me.
It's all greek to me.
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Greece makes better Gyros, so forget the toiks.
No way-----swish!
Heh... heh... ha ha hah.... that's just so... so....
Gotta keep after them...they keep stirring up trouble not to mention destroying the heritage of those who were there before they rampaged through.
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