Portal:Ancient Greece/Did you know/4

• ... that by the time of his death, Alexander the Great had conquered most of the world known to the ancient Greeks?

• ...that the Acropolis of Athens was also known as Cecropia, after the legendary serpent-man, Kekrops or Cecrops, the first Athenian king?

• ...that the Temple of Zeus housed one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World — the monumental statue of Zeus by Phidias ?