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Ancient Greece

The ancient greek civilization starts around 3200 BC with the Cycladic civilization [followed by the Minoan (2700 BC) and the Mycenean civilization (1600 BC)] and flourished from the 7th century BC to the 2nd century AD, especially in the 5th century BC with the city-states of Athens and Sparta.

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Who was Eratosthenes' mother?

We know his father's name but not his mother. His father was Agloas.

In Greek tragedy hamartia refers to?

In Greek tragedy, hamartia refers to the protagonist's biggest flaw. It is the one sin or error that is in the main character or hero's personality that leads to their own downfall.

How did bishop prove that this poor body is the temple of the living god?

The bishop meant by the above lines as the the god resides in the every human body. God has it 's home in every ' 's human heart just the need is to recognize it. He meant that as the church is open at all time for the needy similarly he is always ready to led him a helping hand at any time and at any place.He could come and talk to him at any time.

Which part of the roman republic form of government has strongly influenced the US democracy?

The Roman Republic form of government had many things in common with US democracy, most notably perhaps, they both contained a senate. Both systems also contained "checks and balances" to try to prevent one branch of government from becoming too powerful.

Ancient Greek Jokes?

why did the greek person cross the road?

γιατί το κοτόπουλο διέσχισε το δρόμο (why did the chicken cross the road?)

για να φτάσουμε στην άλλη πλευρά (to get to the other side!)

Is it true an oracle was a shrine Greeks visited to receive prophecies?

Yes, but the shrine/temple was what housed a god's statue, a snake, etc.

Priests/priestesses acted as the mouthpiece in delivering the prophecies.

And this was usually a fix. As an example, the people who held the shrine of Apollo at Delphi had agents in the main cities throughout the Greek world, who sent advance notice of a city sending an embassy seeking a prophecy, and so they had responses ready to put in the mouth of the priestess. They made a good living from the offerings the petitioners paid.

The responses were also cleverly ambiguous, so that if it went wrong, there was another opposite way that the oracle could be interpreted. So the god was always right, and the money kept flowing in.

There was also another use for these shrines. At Delphi and elsewhere, the major cities had stashed treasuries where they kept funds under the protection of the god, so that other cities couldn't pinch them. However foreign invaders relished the easy money to be made by pillaging treasuries if they weren't fearful of the Greek gods. Just to be sure, they 'borrowed' the money. The Roman dictator Sulla financed his campaigns in the east by 'borrowing' these funds. The later barbarian invaders simply looted them.

What is the myth behind Morpheus the greek god?

Ovid says in his Metamorphoses that when Hera commanded Iris to summon a Dream, Somnus chose Morpheus for the task of telling that Ceyx drowned to Alcyone in a dream.

What two Greeks city-states represented two opposing ways of life within greek society?

The classics example is Sparta and Athens - they don't get much more different than these two. That said, every Greek state was different, there was no unified 'Greece' in a modern sense so each state, though having a shared language, gods etc, would contain differences.

How was the ruler of ancient Greece called?

there was no true ruler of all of Greece because a lot of the city states had different governments so they had democracies, monarchies, and oligarchies.

What did ancient Spartans believe when someone died?

Uncertain, but some say dead go to Hades, underworld. It was so in Athens, but Spartans were not very good writers, so we know very little. Explanation of the word Hades in unknown. Some scientists have suggested that it has something to do with the word "invisible". So death could mean that you become invisible and vanish, only thing that lives on of your biological body, is fame and memory in other people's minds.

Who was the Greek's chief god?

Zeus was the chief god. He defeated his father Kronos, the chief Titan, who had swallowed all his brothers and sisters (Poseidon, Hades, Hera, etc). Poseidon, Hades and Zeus threw dice for realms, and Zeus won the sky, Poseidon the sea, and Hades got stuck with the Underworld. As the sky was where Mt. Olympus, the gods' home, was, he became the chief god.

What was the temple to honor the Greek goddess of hunting?

There were many temples to Artemis, goddess of the hunt: they existed throughout the Greek region.

Why is achient Greece famous?

Ancient Greece used to be today's America. They introduced "philosophy" which in today's world turned out to be astronomy, philosophy, biology, and etc. They put forth knowledge unto the world. Their methods to determine time using the sundial and finding a way to record the numerical system. They created so much and contributed so much unto the world. Read about greek mythodology and maybe about socrates and plato. maybe google it? it might be easier. Ancient Greece (or Achaea as they called themselves) was the founder of modern Western culture and thought. Also without them, the unstoppable juggernaut of the Persian Empire would have taken over Europe, and Western culture would be very similar to the middle east.

Why did Sparta not join the Delian ague?

After Sparta successfully led the repulse of the Persian invasion, it proposed that the Greek cities inside the Persian Empire be evacuated to mainland Greece to end the conflict. Opportunistic Athens countered by forming a league of these cities to continue war. Sparta, facing a serf revolt at home left them to it.

What term is not used in the Golden Age of Greece?

People shy away from recognising the endless warfare which wrecked their independence and society.