Sparta, Greece – The city-state of Sparta in ancient Greece
The ruins of Sparta and the valley around it Sparta in the Bronze Age Sparta was a town in southern Greece. It was already a town in the Late Bronze [...]
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Government of Ancient Greece
Government of ancient Greece: the Mask of Agamemnon, from Mycenae, Greece (1500 BC). Now in Athens What kind of government did Ancient Greece have? Ancient Greece had a lot of [...]
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Hellenistic and Roman government in Greece
Hellenistic government: Philip of Macedon Philip of Macedon In the 300s BC, Philip of Macedon conquered Greece. He ruled all of Greece as the king. (In theory Philip was only leading a league of Greek [...]
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The Spartan boy and the fox: a story
The Spartan boy and the fox: a fox cub The Roman writer Plutarch, who wrote about 75 BC, told this story about the Spartans: "So seriously did Spartan children go [...]
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Ancient Greek court system
Greek courts met in places like this theater at Epidauros (200 BC) Greek courts in the Archaic period In ancient Athens, in the Archaic period, what did you do if [...]
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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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Athenian Democracy – Cleisthenes and Pericles
Athenian democracy: the Pnyx, where the Athenian Assembly met in Classical Athens Cleisthenes invents democracy With Hippias gone and the tyranny over, the leader of the Alcmaeonid family, Cleisthenes, started [...]
