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• ...that the Phoenician alphabet was transmitted to ancient Greece in the 8th century BCE through Greek trading colonies such as Al Mina on the Syrian coast?
• ...that American statesman John Milledge named Athens, Georgia, the city surrounding the University of Georgia, after Athens, Greece, the city of Plato's Academy?
• ...that in Greek and Roman mythology, the Palladium was an ancient statue of Pallas Athene which kept the city of Troy safe, until it was stolen by Odysseus?