Whan was the golden age of Greece?
Greece's golden age was the 6th to early 4th Centuries B.C. This was the period of establishment for most of the famous Greek culture which spread across much of Europe in the Hellenistic Period. Historians have cited two major city states as the source of the Golden Age's progress, Athens and Sparta.
Athens was founded in about 1300 B.C. but its important contribution was its invention of democracy by Solon of Athens in 594 B.C. Through this democracy he opened up trade from weights and measures to a system called Evia (the common trade at the time). This brought in most of the craftsmen and artists responsible for such wonders as the Temple of Apollo in Delphi and the Academy in Athenas.
Sparta was founded later, in 800 B.C. by Lycurgus. He created not so much a democracy, but a shared city state. While the cities were full of slave/servants called Helots who did the every day menial labor, the upper class citizens were called Spartans (Spartiates). Much of the military strength of Greece was based here and the stories of King Leonidas, as made popular by Frank Miller and the movie "300," were historical citations for generations to come. The Spartan momentum aided the Greek states to unite against the Persians in the Persian Wars and their victory over their potential dominators coined the term Eleftheriawhich described the Greek people's value of freedom from outside rule (which we valued enough to revolt against England and its King almost 2300 years later).
During this Golden Age Greece built many of the wonders which we now study the ruins of and still stand in awe. Pericles, a general and statesmen of Athens, built the Parthenon on the Acropolis in 438 B.C. The Temple of Apollo was constructed 3 times in this period! Even the Olympics were started in the second full moon of the summer solstice of 776 B.C.
The Golden Age also fathered such philosophers as Socrates (470-399), Plato (428-347), and Aristotle (384-322). One of the first "colleges" was formed here by Plato, called the Hekademia (Academy). This time frame also bred numerous orators, dramatists, and tradesmen who influenced countless principles and practices which we utilize today.
What is the chief products of Greece?
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The World Competitiveness Yearbook (W.C.Y.) is the world's most renowned and comprehensive annual report on the competitiveness of nations, ranking and analyzing how a nation's environment creates and sustains the competitiveness of enterprises and has been published without interruption since 1989.
The Federation of Industries of Northern Greece has been since 2001 the national representative of Greece and is in charge of the compilation, gathering and updating of macroeconomic data for Greece. In the frame of realisation of the above project, the Federation of Industries of Northern Greece has created a scientific team in charge of all the above actions as well as their dissemination to the I.M.D.
How long is the flight from Dubai to Athens?
The flight time for flights between the above places is 6 hours 31 mins
This is an approximate travel time (calculated in ideal conditions. The travel speed is 500 mph and 30 mins for take off and landing). The actual time might change depending on the flight path chosen, weather conditions, etc
What factors affect the climate in Greece?
Greece has a Mediterranean climate. The climate of Greece is mild and rainy winters,relatively warm and dry summers, and extended periods of sunshine throughout most of the year.
The climate in greece is very hot and sometimes in mountainous areas it rains lots. It is temperate, meaning, cool in the winter and hot to very hot in the summer.
hot,dry.
not everywhere :)
in the village i live in, has all 4 seasons. mostly winter and summer though.
Greece has a primarily Mediterranean climate. This means that its summers are usually hot and dry, while the winters are wet and cool.
Why do some people call Greece the birth place of the western world?
Greece is not considered the birthplace of civilization by most historians. The birthplace of civilization would be Mesopotamia. Greece is, however, called the birthplace of Western civilization, since most of the Western nations (like the nations of Western Europe, the United States, Canada, etc.) got their ideas of philosophy, government, and art from Greek civilization.
Number of square miles in Greece?
Greece has about 131,940 square kilometers (50,942 square miles) of land area, with about 1300 square kilometers (510 square miles) of included water area.
However, Greece includes an archipelago, and its national territory covers a much larger area, including the Ionian Sea and practically all of the Aegean Sea, for a territorial area of over 130,000 square miles. About 227 of its 1400 islands are inhabited.
Greece has over 13,676 kilometers (8,498 miles) of coastline.
The city of Athens is named after which greek goddes?
Athens was named after the Greek Goddess Athena. In Greek mythology, she and Poseidon competed for the city. Zeus challenged them to create something that would be the most helpful to the people of the city. Poseidon created horse. Athena created the olive tree. Since the tree created both fruit and wood, she won.
Is Greece a developed country?
No, Albania is not a third world country, Albania is doing much better then all eastern European countries. If u go to Albania u wouldn't see any difference form Greece, Italy or any place in Europe. It's a beautiful country with lovely people.
Where does the name of the country Greece came from?
Usually the name for a particular god or goddess came from where they were the patron deity (i.e., Athena was the patron goddess of Athens), or a component of their responsibilities as a certain god (i.e., Hades means 'unseen' and he is the god of Tartarus, or the Underworld). But, those are just two ways the Greeks named their gods.
What is the easternmost city in Greece?
troy. Modern Greece most eastern point is the island of Strongylli of Megisti island area at 36.06.50' North 29.38.11' East google earth.
In the ancient Greece era the eastern most city was Alexandria the last [one of the 70 build under Alexander the Great supervision] in the vicinity of Kyrgyzstan
During World War II, Italy's invasion of Greece was primarily a blatant attempt to expand Italian territory and power at the expense of a supposedly weak neighbor. At the same time, Italy's dictator-leader, Benito Mussolini, sought to gain more prestige for his country in light of the recent successes of Germany.
What other countries does Greece border?
Ancient Greece was bordered by the kingdoms of Paeonia and Illyria and depending on what era, Thrace.
*** Macedonia and Epirus were the buffers of Greece in Europe...
Who Was Pan The Greek Gods Wife?
he was nevered married but had alot of very intement relation ships with girls
Italy and Greece's closest points lie between the city of Otranto in Italy and the city of Sidari on the Greek island of Corfu. The distance over-water between the countries (via the Strait of Otranto) is roughly 105 km or roughly 65 miles. However, the over-land distance between Italy and Greece (tracking through former Yugoslavia) is over 800 km or 500 miles.
What was some features of the culture of Mycenaean Greece?
Ancient Athens was a complex system, in many ways relatable, and in other ways remarkably alien.
We must remember the context of ancient Athens; they lived literally millenia before the concept of equal human rights; when everywhere else in the world was ruled by tyrants, religious godheads, and petty warlords. The idea that even a small group of individuals could decide policy was alien to any sort of thinking; the cultural capital of the world at that time was Egypt, which for nearly 2000 years had been ruled by a single ruler, whose word was absolute and his authority divine. Egyptian people would spend their entire lives saving up for a lavish funeral, and spend their free time memorizing religious verses to serve them in the afterlife. All over the world, rulers envied the fanatical devotion of the Egyptian people to their ruler and their religion, a tradition which was virtually unchanged for nearly 2,500 hundred years, and peoples from all over the world came to marvel at the vast cities of mausoleums which the Egyptians constructed in honor of their dead
However influenced by Egypt the Greeks were, their way of thinking was completely different. The Greeks were Hero-worshippers; they considered the ultimate glory to be great accomplishments on Earth, and not veneration of an unseen deity. A Greek was more likely to venerate Achilles or Herakles instead of Zeus or Poseidon. In fact, popularly known stories of such Gods were more of an afterthought in Greek religion than canon, because a Greek was wholly unconcerned with the afterlife, and instead focused on what he as a man could accomplish. For example, in nearly 70 years, the Greeks perfected human anatomy in sculpture making; a feat which the Egyptians failed at despite nearly 3000 years of making art.
In this way; Greeks are very similar to us. Religion was merely an aspect of their lives; they spent most of it tending to their business, engaging in spiritual or intellectual fulfillment, attending or playing sports, or debating politics.
And boy, did the Athenians loved to debate politics. It was considered proper for a man to debate politics at every opportunity. As Athens was a direct democracy, ever citizen voted on legislation, thus civic participation was encouraged among the people. Strangers making small talk on the street were as likely to comment about the hot button political issue as you would be making small talk with someone about sports or the weather. Athenians even came up with a word for people who had no interest in politics, or people who only voted for pet projects; "Idiot".
If it wasn't politics, it was sports. Athenians, like all Greeks, had a nearly religious devotion to athletics, and would devote a portion of their time each week to exercising and engaging in athletic competitions. Winners of one of the games, such as the Olympics, were the recipients of great honor, and Athenians revered those who excelled in athletics.
Of course, I refer to the men only. Women had no rights in Athens. A woman was the property of her father until she was married, where she would then become her husband's property. Attending a religious ceremony or a funeral were the only reasons a woman was allowed to leave her house. This is sharply contrasted with Spartan women, who were not only allowed to live independently of the men, but even own property, play sports, divorce their husband, and participate in civil matters.
Slavery did exist in Athens, but as Michael Foucault pointed out; people talk about things they are conflicted about. And the issue of slavery was an ever present issue in our records of Athenian thought. Remember that stoicism started in Athens, and Stoicism preaches eternal brotherhood with all men. But the conflict comes from reality; Greece was surrounded on all sides by barbarians; whose raids could penetrate deep into Greece. It was very common in Greek literature for slaves to be freed through acts of virtuous behavior, thus Greeks would have at least held on to some notion that slavery was a sort of "civilizing" process for the barbarian. However, most Greeks were ultra-nationalistic and highly xenophobic, and the controversy regarding slavery mostly stemmed from the idea that it takes jobs away from honest, hard working Greeks. Most of the farming done in the countryside around the city was actually done by Athenian citizens, and slaves were either servants, handmaidens, or prostitutes, or if they were particularly unlucky, they served in mines or rock quarries. The slave trade was profitable, and sometimes Prisoners of War could be turned into slaves. However, city-states often kept Prisoners of war as diplomatic bargaining chips, as fathers would go to understandably great lengths and would pay vast sums of money to see their sons safely home, and as city-states often had a small number of citizens who were eligible to be soldiers, it was in the states interest to have their soldiers returned to them, lest their military become paralyzed for an entire generation.
Education was the cornerstone of any Athenian Citizen's early life, and Athens was an epicenter of learning that continued for nearly a thousand years after the end of the classical era. Whether it was Plato's Academy or Aristotle's Lyceum, a young Athenian man could expect to learn three disciplines; philosophy, literature, and rhetoric. Philosophy was things regarding the world; religion, mathematics, science, astronomy/astrology, and engineering. Literature was things regarding the past, as the Greeks had no written records of the earlier, Mycenaean era, which had collapsed nearly 600 years before the start of the classical era, thus a legend and a historical fact were virtually indistinguishable (Aristotle even went so far as to say that poetry and literature was superior to history since they depict man as he should and could be, rather than as he is). Rhetoric is things that deal with people, talking to them, getting them to see things your way, obviously it was the craft of merchants and politicians. As I mentioned, Athens was a direct democracy, thus skilled orators held a considerable amount of political clout, making rhetoric a critical area of study.
I've already typed a lot, so I won't go on. A good introduction to ancient Greek way of life is wikipedia. Another good place to continue would be to read some Greek plays, such as The Pot of Gold or the Brothers Menaechmus. I know that suggestion may make you squirm, but one thing that you will learn is how similar their way of thinking is to ours when you realize how similar their sense of humor was to ours. Even Shakespearean comedies can be difficult to comprehend, but Ancient Greek comedies are slapstick, funny, timeless, and simple, thus easy to get a good laugh out of.
What is the time difference between Melbourne Australia and Athens Greece?
There are three different answers depending on the time of year.
From 16:00 UTC on the day before the first Sunday of April until 16:00 UTC on the day before the first Sunday of October, Melbourne is seven hours ahead of Greece.
From 01:00 UTC on the last Sunday of October until 01:00 UTC on the last Sunday of March, Melbourne is nine hours ahead of Greece.
During the rest of the year, Melbourne is eight hours ahead of Greece.
2 PM EET (in Greece Oct-Mar) =
3 PM EEST (in Greece Mar-Oct) =
10 PM AEST (in Melbourne Apr-Oct) =
11 PM AEDT (in Melbourne Oct-Apr)
What is the national fruit of greece?
Greece does not have an official national fruit. It does have a national tree which is the olive tree, and since olives are considered to be fruit, an assumption could be made that the national fruit would also be the olive.
Do UK travel documents need a visa for Greece?
By "UK travel documents" I assume you mean "UK passport holders".
No, they don't need a visa.
Both the UK and Greece are members of the European Union.
Citizens of any EU member country can travel to any other EU country without a visa. They can stay as long as they like, and live and work there with the same rights as a citizen of that country.