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Everyone’s heard a thing or two about Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty; Neptune, the god of the sea; Thor, the god of lightning; and Ra, the god of the sun. But how well would you be able to ...

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In the Amfissa Valley, an ancient footpath winds through thousand-year-old olive groves to the ancient ruins of Delphi — and a haunting cave shrouded in legend and folklore. According to Greek ...