Hellenistic Greece – Greek history
Hellenistic Greece: Alexander fights Darius at Issus (mosaic from Pompeii) Socrates and Plato After the Peloponnesian War was over, all the cities of Greece were worn out and poor. Many [...]
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Greece in the Early Bronze Age
A beaked jug from Early Bronze Age Greece (Lerna, about 2100 BC) Bronze comes to Greece Bronze is a metal that is a mixture of a little tin and a [...]
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Greek history Bingo – Ancient Greece activity
Black-figure amphora by Exekias showing Achilles and Ajax playing checkers To review and make sure you know the basics of Greek history, try playing this Greek History Bingo game. Copy [...]
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Dark Age Greece – History of Greece
Submycenaean octopus jar from Dark Age Greece Dark Age isolation and poverty After most of the Mycenaean palaces were destroyed around 1200 BC, nobody rebuilt them. The only palace we [...]
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Archaic Greek history
Archaic Greece: Stone statues of Kleobis and Biton Oligarchy and temples By around 1000 BC people in Greece were starting to rebuild their civilization after the Dark Age. Greek Dark [...]
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Alexander the Great dies in Babylon
Alexander the Great: Gedrosia Desert Alexander in India When Alexander reached the end of the old Persian Empire, he turned back. He did not go further east into India. Who [...]
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Alexander the Great and the Silk Road
Alexander in the east: Darius' palace at Persepolis Alexander reaches Afghanistan When Alexander finished conquering Persia (modern Iran), he burned Darius' great palace at Persepolis: only ruins are left today. [...]
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The Curse of the Alcmaeonids
Alcmaeonid curse: These skeletons of men who were killed with their hands tied may be some of Cylon's supporters. Who were the Alcmaeonids? The Alcmaeonids (alk-MEE-oh-nids) were a very rich [...]
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Who was Alcibiades? Classical Greece
The Athenian general Alcibiades (from a later portrait done after he was dead) Alcibiades - the backstory Alcibiades was born in Athens around 450 BC. His mother was an Alcmaeonid. [...]
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Thebes – a city in ancient Greece
Thebes bell in the shape of a person, 700 BC (Louvre Museum, Paris) In Greek mythology, Thebes was where Oedipus lived with his mother-wife Jocasta. It was where Oedipus' daughter [...]
