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There are a lots of impressive maritime feats all over, but you do have to give this one to the Polynesians. They more or less topped colonization via sea until the European empires practically conquered the oceans.
If you want something the Greeks don't get recognized for in popular culture anymore, it's just how far their reach extended. Some people might be vaguely aware that the Greeks went east, but I don't think many know they made it as far east as India.
Though coincidentally, the Norse do give the Polynesians a run for their money on colonization distance, if not purely by sea. Seems like every few years, there's evidence of Norse contact deeper and deeper into Canada. That would have been as much by rivers, coasts, and land as open sea, but still noteworthy.
Christian Greeks were a very large minority in Anatolia before the Turks genocided them.
Christians ( Greeks, Assyrians, Armenians, etc ) went from 20% of the population is what is now Turkey, to less than 1% after the genocides.
Wasn't Afghanistan a Greek colony? Albeit a long disconnected one that forked off its own culture.
Greek colonists had gone east and founded towns in central Asia before the kingdoms proper had managed to get out that far, but most of the Greek influence came after Alexander conquered the region. Prior to that, the Persians held power, and they took it back a couple hundred years after his death.
Yeah I always wondered if the boy-fucking came from Greece or Persia.