Note: This page covers the region of what is today Modern Greece, the historical Greek empire expanded into all sorts of other regions but those regions should be credited instead when they appear (such as Türkiye or Egypt). A similarly confused distinction exists with the historical region of Macedon and the modern neighboring country to Greece, North Macedonia.

Chronology

Antiquity (Pre-480 BCE)

The most common stories about Greece set before in these more ancient days are myths like the Battle of Troy with its many legendary characters like Achilles, Odysseus, Agamemnon and Helen of Troy. If placed on a historical timeline (as it was believed to be historical for most of human history and still is debated), it took place in the twelfth or thirteenth centuries BCE.

From this war is measured the traditional generations of the Greek heroes of myth, who would have been seen then as historical ancestors including many well-known figures such as Heracles, Perseus, Jason, Theseus, Orpheus and Oedipus.

Classical Greece (480 BCE-323 BCE)

This period begins with the Battle of Thermopylae where Leonidas attempted to hold back the Persians led by Xerxes, most famously depicted in comics through Frank Miller's 300.

Many popular historical figures lived through this time including Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Herodotus, Hippocrates, Aristophanes. The period then culminates and begins a new period with the conquests of Alexander the Great mixing the influences of Greece throughout the regions he conquers.

Hellenistic Greece (323-30 BCE)

Following Alexander's death, various wars between his generals lead to a splitting of his empire. More historical figures of note in this time include Archimedes, Euclid and Epicurus.

Roman Greece (30 BCE-395 CE)

In the early portion of this era, Greece became a setting for the historical Paul of Tarsus to spread the emerging religion of Christianity.

Byzantine Greece (395 CE-1371 CE)

Currently, there are no known comic book touchpoints for this period.

Ottoman Greece (1371 CE-1822 CE)

Currently, there are no known comic book touchpoints for this period.

Modern Greece (1822 CE-Present)

Stavros, a family friend and protector of Elektra as a child, fought as a hero during World War II as part of the resistance against the Nazi invasion of the country.

Elektra's mother Christina Natchios was killed by a patriotic terrorist during the time of the Cyprus partition (a vague time period that began in the 50's-70's but was officially never resolved).

Sub-Locations

Real-World Locations

• Athens: Capital and largest city of modern Greece, it is also one of the most well-known cities of Ancient Greece.
• Crete: The largest island of Greece's many islands off the mainland. The Minotaur of myth and related figures were located in Crete.
• Euboea: Second-largest Greek island.
• Macedon: A historical kingdom related to the northern region of modern Greece, Philip and his son Alexander the Great came from here.
• Sparta: One of the most well-known historical cities of Greece, often contrased as the warlike counterpart to the philosophers and diplomats of Athens.
• Thessaly: Both the name of a historical and modern region of the Greek mainland. It is directly south of Macedon.
• Thermopylae: The battleground held by Greek and Spartan soldiers against the Persians in several battles. Nestled within the high cliffs along the banks of Greece, the Thermopylae (translated from ancient Greek to the "Hot Gates") is a narrow pass through the coastal mountains. In antiquity it was the only major land route between Lokris and Thessaly. The Persian army of Xerxes I landed nearby and needed to use the hot gates as passage to the rest of Greece, or incur a considerable detour. It was at this strategic pass that King Leonidas of Sparda and his 300 soldiers would perform the epic task of holding off the considerable forces of the Persian army for three days before being outflanked and killed.

Fictional Sub-Locations

• Mount Olympus: Although there is a real-world mountain called Mount Olympus, like many similar mythical locations that reference real-world ones, there is no actual connection unless Olympus is taken as an invisible spiritual place behind the physical one.