Ancient Greece

The Parthenon, the Coliseum, the Temple of Hephaestus, and the temple of Athena Nike are just a few.

Sparta, having established its dominance and security in the Peloponnese, and material security through its serf population, sought peacefulness. It supported Athens, after it had expelled its tyrant, against forcible attempts of its oligarchy to reestablish control. They joined together in repelling the Persian invasion, and Athens provided military support to Sparta in putting down its serf rebellion.

Things went sour during this espedition and Sparta sent the Athenians home. Hostilities broke out as an over-confident Athens meddled in the affairs of Sparta and its allies in the peloponnese peninsula. fter 15 years they patched things up with a 30 year peace treaty. Howeve Athens continued to intervene in the problems i the Peloponnese, Sparta demanded that Athens back off, Athens persisted, and the devastating 27-year Peloponnesian War broke out, which Athens lost.

Arete was the personification of living up to one's potential. With role models like Perseus, Theseus and Odysseus, that was a tall order to fill.

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The basic myth which all early Grecian culture was based upon was:

Once long ago a great god named Zeus was in power. He was the king of all the great gods and other immortal and mortal beings and had several daughters and sons of his own, most with mortal women. (it was said that Zeus slept with over 100 woman in Greece and beyond) The ones that were born of both immortal parents had magical powers, like the son of Ares and Aphrodite (the god of war and goddess of love), Eros had magical arrows, and the person who was shot with the arrows immediately fell in love. For children born of one mortal and one immortal parent, such as Hercules and Perseus, were often given smaller (but powerful) gifts, such as cleverness, strength, and perseverance.

Obviously there are many more amazing Greek myths, but that is the basis of most myths, which tend to web off of that, such as the myth of Medusa, the beautiful woman turned to a monster by angry Athene, or that of Atlas, a titan punished by having to hold the weight of the world on his shoulders.

If you are looking for a fictional read about myths of Greece, Percy Jackson and the Olympians is a young, easy, but informative series that is lots of fun to read!

the ottomans were oppresing the greeks.yeah in some areas they co existed but it was rare.ottomans oppresed religion and were not equeal (greeks and serbs had to pay large taxes,their children were taken away and manipulated into becoming ottoman warriors) also they could not express their orthodox religion (if you were christian you died) so yeah,it was dark times for them, + they wanted their own nation since ottomans were conquerers

of course not it was a series of small city states governered by separate entities like Athens by democracy or Sparta by military dictatorship

The citizens were involved in decision-making in assembly. In monarchy, oligarchy and tyranny, decisions were made by the upper class.

It converted the Delian League which it had led against Persia in the later stages of the war into an empire of its own, and began interfering in the other cities, leading to the devastating Peloponnesian War.

Cursive writing was invented by the Phoenicians in the 9th Century BCE and spread to the Greek world in the 700s BCE. Earlier forms of writing were used for inscriptions.

So until this easy-reading script was available, communication was mostly oral. This was done by travelling bards who made up versions of the old stories about heroes and gods, and travelled around the countryside earning a living by singing the stories of the past.

With the availability of cursive writing, these stories were written down and circulated. The best known of the written versions, which survives today, was done by 'Homer, the blind poet of Chios' in about 700 BCE. Before this it was all oral.

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The vases (lekythoi) stored olive oil for the ritual anointing of the dead(every year), more specifically unmarried men

There was not an empire in Greece. Greece had two kingdoms, Macedon and Epirus and a number of city-states, some of which were united in leagues, the Aetolian League and the Achaean league.

Mainland Greece was conquered by the Romans in 146 BC. In 148 BC Rome defeated Macedon, the largest and most powerful state, in the Fourth Macedonian War. Two years later it was turned into a Roman province. In the same year the Greek cities of the Achaean league rose against Rome and were defeated. As a result Achaea (in southern Greece) also became a Roman province, so did Epirus (in western Greece). Athens remained formally independent as an ally/client state until 88 BC when it revolted and was subdued. The Aeolian Islands were annexed in 133 BC.

They were ancient Greek play writers. Sophocles Aeschylus and Euripides were the ''big 3'' of tragedy. Aristophanes wrote comedy and excelled in political and social satire. They all had themes taken from historical events and everyday life.

The first sports event called the Olympic games in the modern era was held in Much Wenlock (a village in England) in 1850. The first Olympiad organised by the IOC was held in Athens in 1896.

the capital of the greek eastern empire

well Julius Ceaser's assassination affected the roman empire and then his brother Augustus became leader and started the time of the Pax Romana ( a long period of time of all peace). that's all!

The Hippocratic Corpus may have been written by Hippocrates or his students.

it means to say that someone might be wrong

Hoplites were important to ancient Greece because they battled for their individual city-states. This allowed for warfare between the city-states to play out. Hoplites were not effective for large scale warfare, however.

that's called a phalanx mainly the Spartans and Romans used it. they also had a lot of spears sticking out to

Sacrificing to their gods.

Archimedes lived from about 287 BC to about 212 BC in Greece.

By placing a shard of broken pottery marked with their choice in a barrel to be counted.

Macedonians were one of the many Greek tribes who lived in the northern Greek peninsula. They claimed to be descendants of the mythical hero Hercules.

The founder of the tribe was named Caranus who set off from Argos in the Peloponnese. The name Macedonia comes from Makednos (high place or tall man in ancient Greek) and the lands inhabited by this tribe of the Argeads (people from Argos) took the name Macedonia, which would translate into ''Highlanders, or Land of Tall men).

The lands of Ancient Macedonia on the northern Greek peninsula is today the modern Greek province of Macedonia on the northern Greek peninsula. Ancient Macedonia of history lies mostly within Greece approx. (94%), however some areas still remain outside such as Pelagonia which is within the borders of the F.Y.R.O.M.-Former Yugoslav Rep. of Macedonia (approx. 4%), Bulgaria (approx. 2%) and a snippet in Albania.

If we are to accept that the basic traits of categorizing a tribe/race/nation are written language, religion, ethnic self identification and cultural and racial characteristics, then there is no doubt that the ancient Macedonians were Greek. They wrote and spoke the ancient Greek language and took part in the Olympic Games, which at the times only athletes from Greek city-states were allowed to participate. Furthermore, the most famous of the ancient Macedonians, Alexander III, also known as Alexander the Great spread the ancient Greek language and culture through a series of successful campaigns up to India. As all Greek names, Phillip II father of Alexander and Alexander the Great have Greek etymological meaning. Phillip is made up from two words (Philos+Ippos=Phillipos) and it would freely translate as ''Friend of Horses'', were Alexander s (Alexein+Andros=Alexandros) which means ''Protector of Men''. Alexander the Great's sister was named Thessaloniki (hence the city of Thessaloniki in Northern Greece) also has a meaning. Phillip the II gave this name to his daughter after a victorious battle against the Thessalians, a neighboring Greek tribe, so he named his daughter Thessalon-niki=Victory over Thessalians.

It would be historically inaccurate to make the claim that the state of F.Y.R.O.M., or as it is self-named ''Republic of Macedonia'' has anything to do with the ancient Greek tribe of Macedonians, other than the small area of Pelagonia which lies within its southern borders next to Greece. The people who live there, although they call themselves 'Macedonians' and try through any means to make a connection to the Ancient Kingdom are without basis, since the language that they speak is a mixture of Bulgarian and Serbian (Slavic) languages. Before turmoil erupted with neighboring Greece, the former President of the country. Kiro Glogorov on one of his interviews stated that ''Modern day Macedonia (FYROM) has no links to the Ancient Maceodnians''. Furthermore, the last President of the country, Mr. Georgevsky, who was a major supporter of the link between modern-day Macedonia and the Ancient Kingdom, renounced all his beliefs and applied for a Bulgarian passport. The diaspora of modern-day ''Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia'' have partially managed to gain support mainly from the United States of America, by sealing a multi-billion dollar deal for a major pipeline construction that would link Ajerbaitzan, Bulgaria, F.Y.R.O.M. and Albania that would free Europe from the Russian monopoly. What is for the rest of the world to decide is: Are politics enough to re-write history?