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14 09, 2017

Who were the Lydians? West Asian history

By |2019-11-20T05:41:34-08:00September 14th, 2017|West Asia|Comments Off on Who were the Lydians? West Asian history

A Lydian gold coin King Gyges About 687 BC, according to the Greek historian Herodotus, King Gyges started the new country of Lydia (LID-ee-ah), in modern Turkey where the Hittites had ruled before the [...]

18 07, 2017

Battle of Salamis – Second Persian War

By |2018-04-23T08:06:26-07:00July 18th, 2017|Greeks, War|Comments Off on Battle of Salamis – Second Persian War

Phoenician ship In 480 BC, the Persian king Xerxes was attacking Greece. Things looked very bad for the Greeks, when the Greek navy, under the command of the Athenian general Themistocles, wrecked the Persian fleet [...]

10 07, 2017

Oedipus Rex – Sophocles – Summary and Themes

By |2018-04-23T09:06:11-07:00July 10th, 2017|Greeks, Literature|Comments Off on Oedipus Rex – Sophocles – Summary and Themes

Oedipus Rex: The shepherd tells his story to Oedipus, while Jocasta listens in horror (now in the Getty Museum) Sophocles wrote this very famous play in the 400s BC. It [...]

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