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If your main destination is Greece, you must apply for a visa from Greece. If you get that you can enter the Schengen area whatever way and wherever you like.
Likewise: If your main destination was Italy and you got a visa from Italy you could enter Schengen through Greece.
If you don't meet the Greek rules, then you shouldn't plan a trip with Greece being the main destination. Sorry, but that's how the rules are.
If you apply to Italy for a visa for a trip where Greece is clearly the main destination, they will probably refuse your visa saying you have to apply to Greece and not even look at the rest of the application.
The only legal choice I see is to hope that the Greek will see that you have three previous trips to Europe, obeying the rules, and say that's more important than seven days too little on your residence permit, and as a result grant your visa.
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What the second bullet point means is that yes, you can enter in a different port of entry. They might ask you how you plan to travel on to your official destination. You would have to lie. And that is a very bad idea, not just for moral reasons but because it goes into your file.