 | Portal maintenance status:(November 2018)
|
.jpg)
Ancient Greece (Ancient Greek:Ἑλλάς,romanized: Hellás) was a northeasternMediterranean civilization, existing from theGreek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end ofclassical antiquity (c. 600 AD), that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically relatedcity-states and communities. Prior to theRoman period, most of these regions were officially unified only once under theKingdom of Macedon from 338 to 323 BC. InWestern history, the era of classical antiquity was immediately followed by theEarly Middle Ages and theByzantine period.
Three centuries after the decline ofMycenaean Greece during theBronze Age collapse, Greek urbanpoleis began to form in the 8th century BC, ushering in theArchaic period andthe colonization of the Mediterranean Basin. This was followed by the age ofClassical Greece, from theGreco-Persian Wars to the death ofAlexander the Great in 323 BC, and which included theGolden Age of Athens and thePeloponnesian War betweenAthens andSparta. The unification of Greece byMacedon underPhilip II and subsequent conquest of theAchaemenid Empire by Alexander the Great spread Hellenistic civilization across the Middle East. TheHellenistic period is considered to have ended in 30 BC, when the last Hellenistic kingdom,Ptolemaic Egypt, was annexed by theRoman Republic.
ClassicalGreek culture, especially philosophy, had a powerful influence onancient Rome, which carried a version of it throughout the Mediterranean and much of Europe. For this reason, Classical Greece is generally considered thecradle ofWestern civilization, theseminal culture from which the modern West derives many of its founding archetypes and ideas in politics, philosophy, science, and art. (Full article...)
Archaic Greece was the period inGreek history lasting fromc. 800 BC to thesecond Persian invasion of Greece in 480 BC, following theGreek Dark Ages and succeeded by theClassical period. In the archaic period, the Greeks settled across theMediterranean Sea and theBlack Sea: by the end of the period, they were part of atrade network that spanned the entire Mediterranean.
The archaic period began with a massive increase in the Greek population and of significant changes that rendered the Greek world at the end of the 8th century entirely unrecognizable from its beginning. According toAnthony Snodgrass, the archaic period was bounded by two revolutions in the Greek world. It began with a "structural revolution" that "drew the political map of the Greek world" and established thepoleis, the distinctively Greek city-states, and it ended with the intellectual revolution of the Classical period. (Full article...)
Corinth (/ˈkɒrɪnθ/KORR-inth;Ancient Greek:ΚόρινθοςKórinthos;Doric Greek:ϘόρινθοςQórinthos;Latin:Corinthus) was acity-state (polis) on theIsthmus of Corinth, the narrow stretch of land that joins thePeloponnese peninsula to the mainland ofGreece, roughly halfway betweenAthens andSparta. The modern city ofCorinth is located approximately 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) northeast of the ancient ruins. Since 1896, systematic archaeological investigations of theCorinth Excavations by theAmerican School of Classical Studies at Athens have revealed large parts of the ancient city, and recent excavations conducted by the Greek Ministry of Culture have brought to light important new facets of antiquity.
ForChristians, Corinth is well known from the two letters fromPaul the Apostle in theNew Testament, theFirst Epistle to the Corinthians and theSecond Epistle to the Corinthians. Corinth is also mentioned in theActs of the Apostles as part ofPaul the Apostle's missionary travels. In addition, the second book ofPausanias'Description of Greece is devoted to Corinth. (Full article...)
-Ancient_Roman_busts_in_the_Neues_Museum.jpg)
Hesiod (/ˈhiːsiəd/HEE-see-əd or/ˈhɛsiəd/HEH-see-əd;Ancient Greek:ἩσίοδοςHēsíodos;fl. c. 700 BC) was anAncient Greek poet generally thought to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time asHomer.
Several of Hesiod's works have survived in their entirety. Among these areTheogony, which tells the origins of the gods, their lineages, and the events that led toZeus's rise to power, andWorks and Days, a poem that describes the fiveAges of Man, offers advice and wisdom, and includes myths such asPandora's box. (Full article...)
List of selected biographies |
|---|
.jpg)
.jpg)
.JPG)
Life:Agriculture · Art · Cuisine · Democracy · Economy · Language · Law · Medicine · Paideia · Pederasty · Pottery · Prostitution · Slavery · Technology · Olympic Games
Philosophers:Pythagoras · Heraclitus · Parmenides · Protagoras · Empedocles · Democritus · Socrates · Plato · Aristotle · Zeno · Epicurus
Authors:Homer · Hesiod · Pindar · Sappho · Aeschylus · Sophocles · Euripides · Aristophanes · Menander · Herodotus · Thucydides · Xenophon · Plutarch · Lucian · Polybius · Aesop
Buildings:Parthenon · Temple of Artemis · Acropolis · Ancient Agora · Arch of Hadrian · Temple of Zeus at Olympia · Colossus of Rhodes · Temple of Hephaestus · Samothrace temple complex
Chronology:Aegean civilization · Minoan Civilization · Mycenaean civilization · Greek dark ages · Classical Greece · Hellenistic Greece · Roman Greece
People of Note:Alexander The Great · Lycurgus · Pericles · Alcibiades · Demosthenes · Themistocles · Archimedes · Hippocrates
Art and Sculpture:Kouroi · Korai · Kritios Boy · Doryphoros · Statue of Zeus · Discobolos · Aphrodite of Knidos · Laocoön · Phidias · Euphronios · Polykleitos · Myron · Parthenon Frieze · Praxiteles
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | Here are some tasks awaiting attention:
|
The followingWikimedia Foundation sister projects provide more on this subject:
