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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

Circe: Justice for the Witch

By Kat Kennedy, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom If you think you know the story of Circe, the witch of Aeaea and the seducer of the hero Odysseus, think again. There’s more to her story than is widely publicized or acknowledged, but to understand how Circe became one of ancient Greek mythology’s most notorious women you

Written on September 30, 2019 at 3:14 pm, by Katherine_Kennedy

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Categories: Monsters

Tags: Aeaea, Agrius, Circe, Hesiod, Homer, Latinus, Odysseus, Odyssey, Penelope, Perses, Telegonus

The Mysterious Mr. Homer

No one knows exactly when the Greek poet Homer lived. Herodotus, the father of history, guessed around 850 BC. Other ancient sources proposed that he was conjuring up transcendent imagery as early as the 12th century BC. Modern researchers, however, appear to place Homer in the 7th or 8th centuries BC. The dates, as you

Written on July 29, 2019 at 9:19 am, by Anya Leonard

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Categories: Poets

Tags: a.p. david, biography, iliad, Odyssey, Samuel Butler

The Birth of the Biography

By Ben Potter, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom What springs to mind when we think about literature of the Ancient World? Maybe it’s Homer’s Achilles dragging the corpse of Hector around Troy or Sophocles’ Oedipus stabbing out his polluted eyes. Perhaps it’s Plato’s Socrates holding forth or Herodotus’ Leonidas and his 300 Spartans. It even might

Written on July 5, 2019 at 12:38 pm, by Ben Potter

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Categories: History

Tags: Antony, Aristotle, Augustus, biography, Cleopatra, Funeral Oration, Hadrian, Herodotus, History, Homer, Josephus, Julius Caesar, Odyssey, pericles, Plutarch, Septimius Severus, Suetonius, Sulla and Sallust, Tacitus, Theopompus, Thucydides, Tiberius, Timaeus, Xenophon

The Sirens: A Symbol of Fear

By Jocelyn Hitchcock, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom “For with their high clear song, the Sirens bewitch him, as they sit there in a meadow piled high with the moldering skeletons of men, whose withered skin still hangs upon their bones.” Odyssey. 12: 39-54 The elusive Sirens of the Aegean have been cornerstone characters in Greek

Written on May 22, 2019 at 9:37 am, by Jocelyn Hitchcock

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Categories: Monsters

Tags: Etymologiae, Greek Mythology, Odysseus, Odyssey, Sirens

12 Ancient Greek Terms that Should Totally Make a Comeback

Learning Ancient Greek can be… challenging. For one thing, there are competing dialects (as was discussed in our Podcasts with Professors Episode with the Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cyprus.) As such, there are times when we aren’t even sure how the word is pronounced. There are also like 5 different translations for

Written on May 14, 2019 at 9:40 am, by plato

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Categories: Culture

Tags: Aidos, Apatheia, Arete, Aristotle, Ataraxia, Doxa, Episteme, Eudaimonia, Homer, Kleos, Nostos, Odyssey, Oikos, Stoicism, xenia