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12 Greek Mythic Marbles Architecture Veria Green Perseus Hephaestus Volakas Haemus Thasos Snowhite Draco Centaur Nessus In Greek, GREECE is called HELLAS. A word consisted of two ancient ones: "HEL" which is the root of an ancient Greek word meaning "shining" (Hel-ios = Sun), "LAS" which is the ancient Greek word for "stoneā€. The ancient Greeks named their country: HEL-LAS = Shining Stone. The History of Greek Marble begins many thousands of years ago...From ancient times Greek sculptors and architects achieved to create marble masterpieces that stand through the centuries. Nowadays Greece produces a variety of unique marble. Greek Marble is considered as top level architectural material and has been used by constructors throughout the world. In Greece Marble can be found throughout the country. High quality marble are being quarried from the Mainland and from the Islands. The area presentation introduces the types of the marble which are being quarried in each territory. Titanium black Mythological association of a region with the marbles extracted there.