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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.
10,833 Questions
Did the Athenians make a deal with the Persians in the Peloponnesian War?
No. As leader of the anti-Persian Delian League they were natural enemies. The Persians provided money to the opposing Peloponnesian League led by Sparta.
2 peninsulas Greece is located on?
Greece is located between the Apennine Peninsula (also known as the Italian Peninsula) and the Karaburun Peninsula.
How was ancient Greece different to ancient Egypt?
Ancient egyptians believed in different gods to the Greeks, but they were both polythiestic cultures (which means that they believed in more than 1 god.) Also, Greeks and egypitans had different government types. Ancient Egypt had 1 pharoah, that would control all of Egypt. The heir of the pharaoh was the oldest son of the pharaoh. Different ancient greek cities had different types of government. Sparta had 2 kiings, but Athens only had 1. The Greeks and the egyptians also had different types of cultures. Greeks wore togas where as egyptians wore the dresses and kilts. they ate different foods too. Ancient Greece and ancient Egypt were pretty similar when it comes to religion though.
What island were the Athens defeated on?
First of all athens is not a group of people athens is a city not a war whoever wrote this probably got confused with the trojans and the greeks and the romans.
Was Sicily ever a part of Greece?
Sicily has never been a part of Spain, but has at various times been under Spanish rule.
What was the name of the conflict between Athens and Sparta and their allies-?
"What is the conflict between Good and Evil?" (Not to say Athen is good, Sparta - Evil, I just mean they are two polarities, they just can't seem to get on) Sparta thought Athens was getting too powerful so they decided to show them a thing or two, Athens should have won, if it weren't for the death of their leader Pericles, at the hands of the plague. Sparta won and Athens lost her empire. Sparta did not gain it however, she liberated each state to rule themselves. We call it the Peloponessian War today. The two cities were polar in most cultural respects, but they cooperated in defeating Persia in the Second Persian War. After the war Athens got most of the credit, intensifying the existing rivalry between them. It was primarily a political conflict about which city should be Number One in Greece.
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The Peloponnesian War 431-404 BCE was fought between Sparta and its allies and Athens and its allies (empire).
Sparta and Athens were allies and respected each other for many years. They cooperated against Persia, Sparta sending a contingent to Athens to help defend against Persia's attack on Athens in 490 BCE, but it arrived too late, after the battle of Marathon had been fought. Cooperation continued, but it came adrift when the Athenian contingent sent to help Sparta put down a rebellion of its serfs in 461 BCE went awry when the Spartans realised that the Athenians were sympathetic to the opposition, and sent the Athenians home.
After the Persian War ended in 449 BCE, Athens opportunistically converted the Delian League of eastern Greek cities it had led against the Persian Empire into an empire of its own, and lived high on the hog with the war funds it continued to extort from those cities, turning the League into an empire of its own - the cities effectively held off an invader only to be taken over by their own leader.
Athens, overconfident with this success and money, kept interfering in other Greek cities not inside its empire, bringing it into conflict with members of the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta. Athens destroyed the Corinthian fleet, and finally tried to bankrupt Megara, one of these cities. The Peloponnesian cities appealed to Sparta, which demanded that Athens back off. It didn't and the devastating 27-year Peloponnesian War 431-404 BCE ensued.
The irony was that Persia had its revenge on Athens by bankrolling a fleet for the Peloponnesian League which could match the hitherto-dominant Athenian fleet on which its power and empire rode.
Further consequences: The reason for the Persian Wars was that Persia tried to stop western Greek cities interfering in the peace within its empire by bringing the cities outside its empire under control. With Athens the chief troublemaker, the Persians thought 'better a Peloponnesian dominance than an Athenian dominance'. After the Peloponnesian War ended in Athens' defeat and loss of its empire, the Greek cities went on fighting each other in shifting alliances and - another irony - Persia imposed the King's Peace, threatening retaliation if their endless fighting continued to spill over into the Persian Empire, which was the cause of the Persian Wars the previous century in the first place. And while Persia had the advantage over the war-weakened Greek cities, it resumed control of the Greek cities in Asia Minor which it had lost after the Persian War over 60 years earlier.
Why were the ancient Greeks forced to colonize and trade?
because they were poor and about to go out of food
What is the acropolis of ancient Greece?
it was built in 432 B.C. ~ .........
so that's over 2 thousand years old !! ~...........
some also say that it took 50 years ~ HowlSt6ormheart
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 resulted from the victory by athenians over the Persians at marathon?
The Persians, having defeated their other target Eritea, turned on Athens, which was supported by its ally Plataia. The third ally Sparta was engaged in a religious festival and by the time they arrived the battle was over.
Why are Greeks called the glory?
No to the answer below. Greece is from the Latin Grecia which is what the Romans called Hellas[Greece] & the Hellenes[Greeks] is what Greeks call[ed] themselves, here is an explanation:
Greece is called Hellas or [H]Ellada by the Greek people. But since the ancient days they have stopped pronouncing the "H". The question "where does the word Greece come from?" has arisen. The word Greece comes from the Romans. From a Greek colony in Magna Grecia (Sicily and Southern Italy) one of the first Greek groups that the Romans came into contact with. Since these Hellenics lived in a place the Romans called Magna Grecia, they were called Grecians or Greek. The name just stuck.
because they are from Greece
They just added a suffix that sounded nice i guess.
Why do the Achaeans took so long to defeat the Trojans?
We do not know much about the actual timing of the Trojan War, so this will focus on what is written in The Iliad and The Odyssey. The first issue is that the beachhead was difficult for the Greeks to take. The ground was strongly sloped and the Trojans had the high-ground. The second major issues is that Ancient Greeks did not have sophisticated siege weaponry, which meant that it was effectively impossible for them to breach the Trojan Walls surrounding the city until Odysseus came up with the idea of the Trojan Horse, which allowed for the Trojans to "self-breach" the city walls.
Why is thespis the first actor?
The first thespian was a man by the name of Thespus. He perfected the art of acting and created a world renown acticing technique that is still popular today. The first thespian was a man by the name of Thespus. He perfected the art of acting and created a world renown acticing technique that is still popular today.
Did Hercules do something wrong?
Hera forced Ilithyia, a goddess of childbirth, to slow down the birth of Heracles and his twin brother and caused Eurystheus to be born prematurely so that he would be born first and become king. She sent two giant snakes to the chamber of the twins when they were eight months old. She induced a fit of madness into Heracles which made him kill his sons. He guided the oracle of Delphi to direct him to serve king Eurystles and perform all the tasks he asked him. The king gave him ten labour and added two more: the famous twelve labour of Heracles. Hera induced another fit of madness which led him to throwIphitus over the city wall to his death.Iphitus was the brother of a woman she fell in love with and whom he had abducted and his best friend.
yes the Greeks had plays they also had poetry, literacy, and more...Greeks plays were held at cerant places
Edit: Yes, the Greeks did have plays. Tons, actually. A common theme in many of these place was some sort of tragedy. Western theatre was born in Athens, Greece between 600 and 200 BC, created by the Athenians. The tragedy often represented in these Greek plays weren't the sole result of someone's artistic ability, but moreso the result of what was going on in Greece during the time. They were also often designed to show the rights and wrongs in life.
Some examples of Greek playwrights and their plays:
By Aeschylus -
Agamemnon
The Choephori
Eumenides
The Persians
Prometheus Bound
The Seven Against Thebes
The Suppliants
By Euripides -
Alcestis
Andromache
The Bacchantes
The Cyclops
Electra
Hecuba
Helen
Medea
The Trojan Women
By Sophocles -
Ajax
Antigone
Electra
Oedipus at Colonus
Oedipus the King
Philoctetes
The Trachiniae
By Aristophanes -
The Archarnians
The Birds
The Clouds
The Ecclesiazusae
The Frogs
The Knights
Peace
Plutus
The Wasps
The Thesmophoriazusae
How high is the Temple of Artemis?
Pliny describes the temple as 377 feet (115 meters) long and 180 feet (55 meters) wide, made almost entirely of marble, making its area about three times as large as the Parthenon. The temple's cella was enclosed in colonnades of 127 Ionic columns, each 60 feet (18 meters) in height.
The Romans created larger interior spaces in architecture than the Greeks because?
I believe it was because the Greeks did not use arches, thus they need more columns to support the roof structure.
The ancient Greeks read The Iliad and Odyssey in order to know?
It was a written version of the stories the bards used to sing of the legendary looting of Asia Minor by the Greeks, the capture of Troy, and the travels and travails of Odysseus' return to his home in Ithaca.
Did Xerxes fight in the battle of Thermopylae?
No , the Greek historian Herodotus (c. 484-425 BC) was not present at the battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC. .
Who was the spy in the battle of Thermopylae?
If by spy, you mean the person who betrayed the Spartans, that would be Ephialtes of Trachis.
What were the roles of the helots and perioeci in spartan society?
women look after the house and cook food for the husband and children and look after their physical fitness which was also very important. Men had no work because slaves did everything. Men would spend their free time in the Agora
