Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece

History of Ancient Greece.

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Ancient Greece

A region in the northwestern Peloponnese whose inhabitants were mentioned by Homer as fighting at Troy. They were not unified but shared common citizenship and coinage. Achaea formed a confederacy ...

Thebes

History; Ancient Greece

Ancient settlement in southeastern Boeotia, an important Mycenaean centre and the legendary birthplace of Heracles. The city re-emerged in the 6th century BC and for much of its history was ...

Thasos

History; Ancient Greece

Island in the north Aegean known for its fertility and mineral wealth. Settled by the Greeks in about 650 BC, Thasos became prosperous and often extended its power onto the mainland of Thrace. A ...

Dorians

History; Ancient Greece

One of the tribes of Greeks whose foundation myths told of their arrival in the Peloponnese after the fall of Troy. Some archaeologists and historians have dated this to about 1100 BC, but others ...

Trojan War

History; Ancient Greece

Legendary war in which a massed force of Greeks attacked Troy after the abduction of Helen of Sparta by Paris of Troy. The Greeks eventually sacked the city after a ten-year siege. The war was a ...

Kleomenes

History; Ancient Greece

King of Sparta (r.520-490 BC), remembered for his aggressive foreign policy. He crushed Sparta's old enemy, Argos, organised the remaining Peloponnesian cities into the so-called Spartan ...

Hippias

History; Ancient Greece

Tyrant of Athens (r.527-510 BC) who succeeded his father, Peisistratus. He was responsible for extensive building programmes in Athens. Increasingly tyrannical, he was overthrown in 510 BC by the ...