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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The palaestra at Olympia, Elis, Greece (about 250 BC) Once all the men had arrived in Elis for the Olympic Games, they spent a month practicing and training together in [...]
Greek Olympic events - Men's footrace (Athens, ca. 530 BC) A short foot race At first, the only athletic competition at the Olympics was a single short foot race, 170 [...]
The temple of Hera in Olympia, Elis, Greece What were the Greek Olympic Games? Once every four years, men from all over Greece came to compete in a great athletic [...]
Greek games: Discobolos (the Discus Thrower) (This is a Roman copy; the Greek one didn't last) Athletic competitions The Greeks took games of all kinds very seriously, but especially physical [...]
Ancient Greek toys: A man lifts a child into a swing (Eretria Painter, 435-420 BC) Ancient Greek toys Even though people in ancient Greece loved competitive games, they also played [...]
Greek wine drinkers playing the kottabos game (Tomb of the Diver, Paestum, ca. 470 BC) Wine as food and medicine Greek people grew wine both to drink themselves and to [...]