Samothrace (also known as Samothraki; Greek: Σαμοθράκη, [samoˈθraci]) is a Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea. It is a municipality within the Evros...
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The Winged Victory of Samothrace, or the Niké of Samothrace, is a votive monument originally discovered on the island of Samothrace, north of the Aegean...
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The Samothrace Temple Complex, known as the Sanctuary of the Great Gods (Modern Greek: Ιερό των Μεγάλων Θεών Ieró ton Megálon Theón), is one of the principal...
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Cabeiri (redirect from Great Gods of Samothrace)
centered in the north Aegean Islands of Lemnos and possibly Samothrace—at the Samothrace temple complex—and at Thebes. In their distant origins the Cabeiri...
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Aristarchus of Samothrace (Greek: Ἀρίσταρχος ὁ Σαμόθραξ Aristarchos o Samothrax; c. 220 – c. 143 BC) was an ancient Greek grammarian, noted as the most...
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Cadmus (section Travel to Samothrace)
Unsuccessful in his search—or unwilling to go against Zeus—he came to Samothrace, the island sacred to the "Great Gods" or the Kabeiroi, whose mysteries...
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The Battle of Samothrace was an inconclusive battle which took place on 20 September 1698 near the island of Samothrace, during the Sixth Ottoman–Venetian...
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Polish language literature prize The Winged Victory of Samothrace, also known as the Niké of Samothrace, an ancient statue of the goddess Nike Nike of Callimachus...
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Serrheum or Serreion (Ancient Greek: Σέρρειον) was a town on the island of Samothrace mentioned by Stephanus of Byzantium. Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica....
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have taken place over two nights. Like in Samothrace, the future initiates would enter the sanctuary of Samothrace from the east where they would have entered...
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