Ancient Greece

He attempted to give a neutral account of both sides, delivering his work as a series of paid lectures in Athens after the Greeks and Persians had agreed to peace.

When he was sentenced to death by a court for impiety, he was given the choice of suicide or the normal one of having his throat cut and being thrown into a garbage pit. He chose to drink hemlock.

Philosophers Socrates, Plato and Aristotle,Phidias - the greatest sculptor and Pericles a great leader were from this golden age of Athens.

It ended when Athens lost the Peloponnesian War and was stripped of its empire, and the empire's money which bankrolled the prosperity.

The males who worked farms, fished, did trades, ran businesses and defended the city-state.

The females who ran the households and produced and raised large families.

The slaves who multiplied the capacity of both of the above.

The Greek world was comprised of a couple of thousand independent city-states. These cities were prone to warfare between each other, and at any time it was normal sor some to be fighting each other. This was magnified by their forming leagues of several cities, so the conflicts spread. The cities were also spread around the Mediterranean and Black Seas which brought them into regular conflict with the other peoples the cities were located amongst. This incessant warfare weakened them and made them vulnerable to progressive takeover by Macedonia, and then Rome.

Polytheism.

A xiphos is a double-edged single-handed sword, used by the Ancient Greeks as an alternative weapon to the spear or javelin.

There is about 16,000 people that live in Ancient Greece. Greece has a little population.

The ancient Greek writer Callimachus expressed the opinion that Big Book equals Big Bore. Yes, excellent answer.

Yes, the Italian city states did make use of the seminaries to make deals with each other.

Well obviously, The Greeks live in Greece while the Egyptians live in Egypt. They have different Gods also.

Greece was a democracy, where all the people decided, while Egypt was a monarchy, with one ruler, or Pharoah.

The Greeks wore white robes, and if noble, colored robes. The Egyptians wore colored robes with patterns and bangles.

That's all I can think of.

The tragedies give differing versions of the legendary past of Greece with a moral angle. The satyr plays were filthy performances after the trio of tragedies, designed to clear the audience's minds of the tragedies, and the comedies were funny and libellous farces designed to send the audience home happy after a hard day at the theatre.

Hellenistic was a period of time relating to ancient Greece after the death of Alexander the Great until 323 BC. The best way to get rid of Hellenistic notions would probably be to read about later periods of time.

Yes , the Greek Goddess Athena was the goddess of war as well as the goddess of wisdom , courage , inspiration , civilization , law , justice , mathematics , strength , strategy , the arts , crafts and skill .

Greek wine varied from dark, inky black to tawny to nearly clear.

The colour of wine is determined by the skins - leave the skins in and you get red, leave them out and you get white. The colour of the grape doesn't matter - what you do with the skins does.

No - there was three centres according to Plato:

Nous (Psyche) - the highest part - reason, wisdom and insight.

Thymos - the middle level - passion, fight and drive: arising from the throat, hear and stomach.

Epithymia - the bottom level - desire and instinct: basic survival needs and appetites.

So the stomach is just one sub-part of the thre major parts.

Both the Romans and the Greeks shared the Mediterranean but were separated by time, rather than geographical borders.

You see the Roman Empire (30 B.C. to 1450 A.D.) encircled the entire Mediterranean Sea (including modern day Greece). The empire stretched from Britain to Spain, the North shores of Africa to Egypt, from modern day Iran to Turkey, and across most of modern day Western Europe.

The Greek Empire (400 B.C. - 120 B.C.) was rather small until King Alexander of Macedon (Alexander the Great) spread the kingdom from the Greek mainland and Egypt east across the Persian Empire.

However, the Geography of Italy varies greatly from that of Greece. Italy is, for the most part landlocked. As a peninsula it has much water frontage but the mainland cities are mostly inland. Greece is much more spread across vast archipelagos and has been known to be rocky. Each country has its share of mountains, cliffs, hills, and fertile soils.

The city-states evolved from 8th Century BCE farming communities which established refuge-fortresses in their agricultural land. The hill forts developed into walled cities which governed themselves and so the city-states came into being. They had to defend themselves against the predations of nomads and other cities to remain independent, which fostered the separateness.

Not really, the Babylonians and the Egyptians beat them to it.

Democracy began developing in Athens from 507 BCE under the guidance of Cleisthenes. It took another seventy years to develop to its peak, and Athens then exported the concept to several other cities.

The history of the planets had nothing to do with humans. Humans used the planets as religious symbols.

The Greek experiment was Direct Democracy, that is the Assembly was not comprised of representatives elected by the people as in today's Representative Democracies - the people themselves attended fortnightly Assembly meetings and discussed and voted on motions put before the by a Council which was elected by the tribes, but had no legislative power itself - the Council carried out the decisions of the Assembly of the People.

Eighty percent of mainland Greece is mountainous, which explains why it was such a poor country and the cities had to export their surplus population to colonise the Mediterranean coastline.

The principal ranges in descending order are: Olympus 2917 metres, Pindus, Voras, Ida, Taygetus, Kylleni, Aroania, Varnous, Falakro, Erymanthos, Orvilos, Pieros, Dikti, Verno, Askio 2111 metres. The rest are below 2000 metres.

All Greek cities depended heavily on slave labour. Probably a third of the population of Athens were slaves. Their force of archers were Scythian slaves, whom they used as a police force as well.

Sparta is often mistakenly stated to have used large numbers of slaves. These were in fact serfs - men who were free but bound to the land and paying part of their produce to the landowners. These serfs were also used as light infantry to support the Spartan armoured warriors as archers and light infantry. As Sparta's warrior population dwindled, these serfs were given freedom for successful army service when recruited as heavy infantry.