Who were the two founders of Greek historical writing?
The two founders of Greek historical writing were Herodotus and Thucydides. While they had different styles, they attempted to be truthful and forthright.
How was the Olympic Torch lit in Ancient Greece?
There was no torch. The Olympic torch was made up in 1936.
The Olympic torch was invented as a way of symbolically creating a connection between Olympia in Greece and an athletics meeting in some city like Berlin. The ancient Olympics didn't need a symbolic connection to Olympia because they were actually held at Olympia.
Why is Homer considered a great literary figure?
He wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey which are the two great epics of Greek history.
His poetry was taught on schools in Ancient Greece (which was however criticised by Plato in The Republic).
How did the cities of Crete differ from other cities in ancient civilizations?
I'm doing homework with a similar question. I think it's because it was mostly surrounded my water and it wasn't all just one big land mass. There were also islands separate from the mainland.
What was the capital city of ancient Athens?
Athens was a city-state. Therefore Athens was both a state and a city and thus the capital. The broader province of Athens (i.e. the rural areas) was and still is Attica.
An equivalent example was the city-state of Corinth or Sparta/Lakonia (both today exist with same borders and names as prefectures of Greece).
What period did Romans ruled Greece?
Rome reached its furthest boundaries under hadrian, in the second century CE. This included the latin western empire and the greek speaking eastern empire. Of course, im not sure if the seperations between the two empires where that set in stone yet, there may have still been some homogeny between the two then.
Ancient Greece was not a country. The Greek world was comprised of a couple of thousand independent city-states of various sizes, with a similar cultural heritage, spread around the Mediterranean and Black Seas.
While Muhammad was alive, the first capital of the Islamic Nation was declared in Medina, Saudi Arabia in 622 C.E. with the Constitution of Medina. Once Muhammad conquered Mecca, Saudi Arabia in 630 C.E., the capital was transferred to Mecca.
Why did Athens become the capital city of Greece?
Athens led a league of 180 Greek city-states after the Persian invasion had been driven back to preserve the independence of those cities which had been under Persian rule. After the Persian Empire gave up trying to impose peace on these Greek cities, Athens kept control of them, turned them into an empire of its own. It lived high on the proceeds and kept a large fleet which forcibly collected the annual funds levied for defence against Persia, but now used by Athens for its own benefit.
Does Greece have freedom of speech?
Though Greece had kings and rulers. Each city-state did employ a form of democracy. Examples are Athens, which had a direct democracy and Sparta that had two kings and a council of elders.
What subjects did Ancient Greeks study?
Ancient Athenians learnt
Writing
Mathematics
Reading
History
Public Speaking
Music
Poetry
and Sport
Most of what we learned came from the ancient greeks
What are the landforms in Greece?
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mountains and agean sea
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Did Greece colonize in Africa?
Not that I am aware of, unless you count the Macedonian aqcuirement of Egypt in the 4th Century BC. Greece colonized the Ionian Coast of Asia Minor (Turkey), Sicily, and southern Italy. Greeks traveled to Africa, however, and they were familiar with it. There is evidence that Greece was influenced by the Ancient Egyptians. Much later in modern times, Africa was divided among European colonial powers, but Greece was not one of them.
the most popular hobbies in Greece are basketball , volley , tennis etc , playing an instrument or spending time on the computers..
Which literary period includes the literate of ancient Greece and ancient Rome?
Ancient Greece and ancient Rome existed, as the term ancient suggests, during antiquity.
How did Alexander the Great help unify Greece?
Alexander the Great helped Greece by conquering a huge number of enemies and encouraging the growth of Greek culture. He also built a variety of shipyards, ports, and spread Greek civilization across the world.
Greece has fought for civil wars since the BCs and early ADs. However, Greece began its independence battle in 1821, and ended and was recognized as a modern country in 1832
What were ancient Greece rich houses made out of?
Houses in Ancient Greece usually consisted of Mud brick, but they could be made of stone if the owner of the house was wealthy.
Examples of peninsulas in Greece?
Attica,
the smaller peninsula in the Peloponnese in southern Greece and
the Chalkidiki peninsula in Macedonia, northern Greece
Anaklusmos is Ancient Greek for what?
Yes it is Percy sword Anklusmos Riptide oh here is its story see one of Artemis's maids before she was a maid riptide was her hairpin and then after she gave it to Chiron the centaur the son of Kronus who is the son of Ouranos.
So then when Percy Jackson was claimed by Poseidon he was the wielder of Anklusmos Riptide
Uranus the Greek god of the heavens and father of the Titans. His name is one of the only U words from Ancient Greece.
What is the name for a public square in Greece?
A name OF a greek plaza is Agora. Not sure if that was what you were after.