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The Marvelous Avengers: Part Two

By Stella Samaras, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom Read Part One Here Orientalizing – Corinth (c. 720-535 BCE) When the Dorians settled in the Attic Peninsula and the Peloponnese, many of the natives moved into the Aegean and across to Asia Minor. When they returned they brought back Eastern influences. Geometric pottery which incorporated simple human

Written on October 24, 2019 at 9:41 am, by Stella Samaras

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Categories: Vases

Tags: Ancient Greek Mythology, Ancient Greek Vases, Athenian Black Figure, Corinth, Dionysian Rites, Elysian Mysteries, Orientalizing, Polygnotos of Thasos, Proto-Attic Style

Timeline of Ancient Greek history

3000 BCE First Settlers: Hunter-gathers begin to settle in what is Greece. A bronze age culture and civilization begins on the island of Crete. 1600 BCE Mycenaean Greece: Bronze age kingdoms in mainland Greece. Powerful kings who ruled centralized states and who built great palaces such as Mycenae. 1194 BCE Trojan War: This was a

Written on October 15, 2019 at 2:37 pm, by Whelan

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Categories: History

Tags: Alexander invades India, Alexander the Great, Ancient Greek history, Ancient Greek warfare, Aristotle, Cleopatra, Corinth, death of socrates, Draco's code of Law, Homer, iliad, Magna Graecia, Messenian War, Mycenaean, Odyssey, Olympic games, Peloponnesian war, persian war, Phillip II, Phoenician Alphabet, Plato, Solon, syracuse, Timeline of Ancient Greece, Xerxes

The Peloponnesian War Summary of Battles and Betrayals – Part One

You couldn’t imagine two cities less alike. Athens was a powerful democracy where citizens spent their days reclining and discussing politics and culture. Sparta was a ruthless oligarchy where individuals were born and bred to fight. Athens controlled a large, mostly coastal territory with its commanding navy, while Sparta was infamous for its authoritative army.

Written on July 18, 2017 at 7:36 am, by anya

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Categories: Wars

Tags: Athens, Corinth, empire, Golden Age of Athens, Peloponnesian, Peloponnesian legue, Peloponnesian war, Sparta

The Ages of Ancient Greece

By Ben Potter Archaic. Classical. Hellenistic. These terms are often (and quite naturally) conflated together under the generic heading of ‘classical’, or, at the very least, ‘old’. It appears that organizing history into clear, distinct eras can be a tricky business. This, of course, is more true for the Greeks than for the Romans. This

Written on November 28, 2014 at 4:27 pm, by plato

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Categories: Politics

Tags: 480, 776, Aeschylus, Aphaia at Aegina, Archaic, Archaism, argos, Aristophanes, Aristotle, Athens, Bronze, Classical Greece, Corinth, Euripides, Hellenism, Herodotus Thyuchdides, persian war, Plato, Polyclitus, Praxiteles, Prehistoric, socrates, Sophocles, Sparta, tyranny

Corinth

A dominant city-state in ancient Greece, Corinth would grow to prominence as a trading center in the early Mycenaean age and then would decline with much of mainland Greece in the years following the collapse of the Mycenaean empire. A city built on the Isthmus of Corinth, it was located between ancient Sparta and Athens. It

Written on July 22, 2013 at 10:07 pm, by Van Bryan

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Categories: Places

Tags: Athens, Corinth, Sparta, Thebes