#thiva

The Lion of Chaeronea in Boeotia, Greece. 

Chaeronea is a village located in Boeotia, Greece. It was the site of several historical battles. Best known is that of 338 BCE, between Philip II Of Macedon and a coalition of various South Greek states, mainly Thebes and Athens. Alexander the Great fought here his first battle.

During the battle, the elite unit of Theban soldiers known as the Sacred Band of Thebes was wiped out completely. The burial monument was erected to mark their communal grave. The excavations revealed the skeletons of 254 men and a part of their weaponry.

“Seismic activity in the Thiva area has not stopped in four months now and we need to update our planning on the basis of the needs that arose on Crete,” head of the Organization for Anti-Seismic Planning and Protection (OASP) Prof. Efthymios Lekkas told state-run news agency amna on Thursday.

Lekkas spoke after an extraordinary meeting of the Committee for Assessing Seismic Risk on the seismic activity in Thiva, in the prefecture of Viotia, Central Greece, on Wednesday.

train view, Thiva

Here’s the link: http://games.mthv.gr/mth-names/

Although the museum’s website is available in English too (and it’s cool btw) the game is only available in Greek, at least at the moment, so I’ll give you a step by step:

The link gets you to this page where you just have to click on [Είσοδος].

As an example, I chose a Greek name that has become very common around the world too. I chose Alexander. In modern Greek, it's ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ or Αλέξανδρος. So you go to letter Α and search for it.

So if you search ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ in its database, it gives you the following script options:

ΜΥΚΗΝΑΪΚΗ Γραμμική Β΄ - Mycenaean Greek Linear B (1600 - 1100 BC) :

ΑΡΧΑΪΚΗ - Archaic Ancient Greek (900 -  500 BC):

(Ultimate proof you shouldn’t be intimidated by the Greek alphabet when you already know the Latin one.)

ΚΛΑΣΙΚΗ - Classical Ancient Greek (500 - 300 BC):

Identical with modern capital version.

ΠΡΩΤΟΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΝΗ - Early Byzantine (Koine) Greek (300 BC - 350 AD) :

Βυζαντινή - Byzantine / Medieval Greek (350 - 1400 AD) :

A 6-year-old boy died on Tuesday night when a fire broke out in a refugee camp on the town on Thiva, some 60 km north of Athens.          .

The boy was reportedly leaving with his parents and 4 siblings in a container. Local media reported that the mother reportedly managed to bring another boy and three girls outside but not the boy. The father was not there at the time of the blaze. The family are asylum-seekers from Iran.

The fire broke out around 9 o’ clock under unknown circumstances. Footage taken at the time of the fire shows a lot of residents to have gathered outside the building on fire.

According to local media radiothiva, and the Fire Service, it was the camp residents who pulled the dead body of the boy from the spot.

The Fire Service said firefighters had to be accompanied by police to get into the camp after residents initially prevented them from entering.