Roman Corinth and St. Paul
The Temple of Octavia in Corinth, dedicated to the sister of the emperor Augustus Hellenistic Corinth After the Macedonians conquered Corinth in 338 BC, Corinth was not as powerful as [...]
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Corinth, Greece in the Classical period
Corinth, Greece: Corinthian aryballos (perfume jar) in the shape of an owl (now in the Louvre, Paris) Corinth, Greece: A Greek city-state sells perfume and pottery In the 800s and [...]
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Ancient Corinth – Mycenaean and Archaic
Corinth, with the high city - Akrocorinth - in the background Where was ancient Corinth? Corinth was a town right where southern Greece and northern Greece come together. It was [...]
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Hellenistic Athens
Hellenistic Athens: Veiled dancer (now in the Metropolitan Museum) The Peloponnesian War Athenian democracy was badly shaken by the Peloponnesian War, which started in 441 BC. As the Athenians began [...]
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Athens under the Tyrants – Ancient Greece
Obol minted under Pisistratus with the head of Medusa At first people were happy with Solon's changes. They had their farms back, and they didn't owe any money, and they [...]
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Archaic Athens – ancient Greece
Archaic Athens: The Acropolis of Athens Athens in the Late Bronze Age Athens was a city-state in the center of Greece. People moved there because it has a good seaport [...]
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What is tyranny? Definition
Kritios Boy statue from the time of the tyranny in Athens In Greece and West Asia, mainly in what is now Turkey, there was a period of time around 650-400 [...]
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What is a state? Definition
Remains of the ziggurat at Warka, in Iraq, from about 3000 BC Probably the first states began in Sumer, around 3500 BC. There were also early states in Iran, India [...]
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What is a republic? Definition – representative government
Hasdrubal, a Carthaginian general Definition of a republic In a republic, instead of voting directly about what they want to do, as in a democracy, people instead vote for people [...]
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What is oligarchy? Rule of the few
Aristocrats fighting on an Athenian vase from the 500s BC Definition of oligarchy Oligarchy means the rule of the few, and those few are generally the people who are richer [...]
