Hmmm, I just started to play this and had the same thing happen to me. It wasn’t in Greece just after Atlas drops the globe and you have to run and grab the pole was it?

I fell down that pit and didn’t die, but I hadn’t got a save anywhere in Greece because the Checkpoints don’t actually save….. how bloody pointless and frustrating! So at least an hour of progress lost, and I’m not sure I can be bothered to repeat it again.