Ancient Greece

katlyn and gabriella

Amon, Re, and later Amon-Re i think. I do know that there was also the 12 Gods of Mount Olympus.

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Amon Ra, Amon Re etc. were egyptian gods, not greek. Greeks believed in the 12 gods who lived on Mountain Olympus and many other minor deities.

The elements of a typical Greek tragic hero are bravery and a relatively high position in society. The anti-hero of a Greek tragedy would ice or greed.

Alexander the Great.

all males regardless of their social class

Pericles was 5th Century BCE and ruled nothing - he was First Citizen in democratic Athens. Alexander was 4th Century BCE, and defeated and took over the Persian Empire. His successors divided his empire up and started calling themselves kings. These are known as the Hellenistic Kingdoms. They lasted until progressively swallowed up by the Roman Empire in the 2nd and 1st Centuries BCE.

The Greek word that most closely means this is "mimic".

Cause ancient Greeks believed in the natural beauty. They believed that a man should be καλός/kalos=(handsome) and αγαθός/agathos=(kind). They were also saying ''A healthy mind exists in a healthy body''. So they had so many nude figures cause they weren't ashamed of their nudity, after all that's the human body, that's how nature made us all, it wasn't pornografy as some people say, it was only an exhibition of the natural human beauty.

Asclepius was the ancient Greek god of medicine.

They both were very sophisticated. Spartans became scholars at a young age compared to athenians became scholars at later ages. Spartans however were also taught to be fierce cunning warriors; and that death was best in battle. Athenians were more in numbers but they lacked Strategical Warfare. However both of them did worship Offspring of Zeus. Ares and Athena were brother and sister. The Rivalry of Athens and Sparta was a Sibling like rivalry at first. But in the end, Sparta forced Athens into surrender. Athens and Sparta did rule in other city states also.

Yes they did mainly because that was all that was available at the time. There is also evidence to suggest that placebo effect was being used.

Before scientific knowledge available to us today, people invented divine forces to explain the forces of nature and events. We have physical archaeological evidence of this going back up to 60,000 years ago.

The familiar Greek gods were brought into Greece by nomads in the second millennium BCE, who replaced or overlaid the previous inhabitants and their gods. Being nomads, they had sky gods; the previous agricultural inhabitants of course had earth gods. The new gods had to absorb the old gods (just as in Christianity it has absorbed previous practices eg Christmas being reset from January to December to absorb the hard-to-stamp-out Saturnalia, and popular Isis was absorbed into Mary). So in Greece the earth goddess Demeter was retained as a mystery cult; Apollo raped the priestess at Delphi (ie pinched her shrine but kept the priestess and snake), etc etc.

We have an obvious high-god progression Uranus-Chronos-Zeus with each predecessor deposed by succeeding waves of nomadic invaders and their own substituted. And there were all the other gods who looked after different parts of the environment and activity (eg Hermes, as well as being messenger of the gods, was patron of medicine and thieves).

The Greeks themselves were aware of this succession of gods - the 5th Century BCE tragedies refer to 'the old gods' and 'the young gods' (ie the current ones).

With no formidable external threat, Greece returned to its normal instability and disputes between city-states on matters of self-interest. Temporary alliances changed until 30 years later Thebes defeated Sparta. It took Persian intervention to restrain the internecine wars, imposing the King's Peace.

Meanwhile Macedonia was growing in power.

The principal contemporary historian was Thucydides, who wrote a very reliable account. His work ended in 411 BCE, and the remainder of the war was taken up, apparently seamlessly, by Xenophon. However comparison of this account with other sources shows that it is flawed and often unreliable. Later secondary historians include Diodorus Siculus, whose accounts are generally extremely unreliable.

Thucydides covered the period 431-411 BCE; Xenophon covered 411-404 BCE.

culture of greek

Doric style columns.

the citizens elected fair officials to create laws

Yes, sheep, goats, and horses were raised in ancient Greece.

The climate was hot dry summers more often than not, mild rainy winters. And covered 70-80% im mountains. It's also a penninsula, surrounded by the Agean Ionian and Meditteranean seas.

βασίλεια (basileia) is the most common word in the ancient literature.

A couple of hundred in Asia Minor were in the Persian Empire. Each of the Greek city-states, wherever they were located - in Europe, North Africa or Asia, followed its own interests, banding together in leagues as it suited them in their inter-city disputes, and changing leagues as it suited their interests.

Those cities in Asia Minor were of course restive under Persian rule, but many had cut deals in their own interest. The Persian preferred tactic was to bribe city ruling classes to go along with the Persian idea of peace and prosperity under their its rule, only resorting to force when this failed. This was witnessed by large Greek city defections at battles during the Ionian Revolt.

And the Revolt itself arose when Greek tyrant of Miletus, Aristagoras, got into trouble with the Persian governor over a failed attempt to pillage the Greek city-state of Naxos, and to save his own skin, set about stirring up the Ionian Revolt.

Greece was not a country. The independent Greek city-states stretched all around the Mediterranean. There were dozens of conflicts between Greek cities and alliances of cities and Persia over several hundreds of years from the 6th Century BCE onwards.

Greek had them about 2000BC give or take a few years

The religious structure of ancient Rome was a pantheon of gods, which means that they had many gods. In addition to the main state gods, the Romans also had personal deities that they favored and also family gods. They would often personify an abstract concept into a god/goddess, such as Fortuna, or even the city of Rome itself portrayed as the goddess Roma.