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4 unusual facts about Samothrace


Alexander Conze

In the 1870s, he performed two archaeological explorations at Samothrace (1873 & 1875).

Phyllis Williams Lehmann

and recovered missing fingers of the hand of the famous Winged Victory of Samothrace at the Louvre.

Samothrace

It was discovered in pieces on the island in 1863 by the French archaeologist Charles Champoiseau, and is now—headless—in the Louvre in Paris.

Talbot Mundy

Beginning in the late 1920s Mundy wrote a number of stories about Tros of Samothrace, a Greek freedom fighter who aided Britons and Druids in their fight against Julius Caesar.


Greek destroyer Lonchi

The island was firmly in Greek control by the next day, after which the naval force conducted a series of amphibious assaults throughout the Aegean, capturing Thasos, Samothrace, Imbros, and Tenedos in the span of several days.

Provisional Government of National Defence

Individual officers from across northern Greece began to flock to Thessaloniki, and on 2/15 September, the "National Defence" received its first substantial reinforcement, as Colonel Nikolaos Christodoulou arrived in the city with the remnants of IV Corps that had refused to surrender and instead withdrawn via Kavala and Samothrace.

Salii

The Salii are also given an origin in connection with Dardanus and the Samothracian Penates, or the Salius who came to Italy with Evander and in the Aeneid competed in the funeral games of Anchises.

Tros of Samothrace

Mundy dedicated Tros of Samothrace to his friend Rose Wilder Lane, who had


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