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- Ancient Greece (23806 bytes)
4: There are no fixed or universally agreed dates for the beginning or the end of the Ancient Gr...
6: ...e term back to about [[1000 BC]]. The traditional date for the end of the Ancient Greek period is the ...
8: These dates are historians' conventions and some writers t...
10: ...ce is considered by most historians to be the foundational culture of [[Western world|Western Civiliza...
15: ...only scant archaeological evidence, survive. Secondary and tertiary texts such [[Herodotus]] "Historie... - Acusilaus (667 bytes)
1: '''Acusilaus''' or '''Akousilaos''' of [[Argos]], son of Cabas or Scabras, was a [[Greece|Greek]...
3: ...cusilaus was of [[Peloponnesian]] or [[Boeotia]]n Argos. Possibly there were two of the name. He is somet... - Ageladas (723 bytes)
1: ...n an inscription) '''Hagelaidas''', was a great [[Argos|Argive]] sculptor, who flourished in the latter p...
3: ... [[Zeus]], copied on the coins of that city. Ageladas was said to have been the teacher of [[Myron]], ...
5: ...iption which contains the name of his son [[Argeiadas]]. - Agesilaus II (5597 bytes)
1: ... the [[Eurypontid]] family, was the son of [[Archidamus II]] and Eupolia, and younger step-brother of ...
3: ...gesilaus was sent to Asia with a force of 2000 Neodamodes (enfranchized Helots) and 6000 allies to sec...
4: ...Greece|Thebes]], [[Corinth%2C_Greece|Corinth]], [[Argos]] and several minor states. A rapid march throug...
18: two years later the [[Peace of Antalcidas]], warmly
26: saved Sparta when her enemies, led by [[Epaminondas]], penetrated - Agis II (2300 bytes)
1: ...id]] king of [[Sparta]], the eldest son of [[Archidamus]] and half brother of [[Agesilaus]]. He ruled...
6: ... against the [[Argos|Argives]] in defence of [[Epidaurus]], and after skilful manoeuvring surrounded t...
8: ...y. In the winter 417-416 a further expedition to Argos resulted in the destruction of the half-finished ... - Alcibiades (7778 bytes)
4: ...e]], who belonged to the family of the [[Alcmaeonidae]].
13: He took part in the [[Battle of Potidaea]] ([[432 BC]]), where his life was saved by Soc...
16: ... [[Hipponicus]] bestowed upon him the hand of his daughter.
19: ...nians to conclude an alliance ([[420 BC]]) with [[Argos]], [[Elis]], and [[Mantineia]].
22: But, on the day before the expedition sailed, there occurred the... - Alexander I of Macedon (1759 bytes)
3: ...it to Persia during the invasion of [[Greece]] by Darius' son [[Xerxes I]], and he acted as a represen...
5: ...fter [[Athens]] and was a patron of the poet [[Pindar]]. - Pyrrhus of Epirus (7425 bytes)
5: ... I and Demetrius. Pyrrhus married Ptolemy's I stepdaughter Antigone and in 297 BC restored his kingdom...
23: ... abandon all Sicily and make the Libyan Sea a boundary between themselves and the Greeks. Meanwhile, ...
29: ...rew a roofing tile which stunned him, allowing an Argosian soldier to kill him (some reports claim he was... - Ancient Olympic Games (9077 bytes)
10: ...[[Pythia]] – the [[oracle]] of [[Delphi]] – to try and save his people from war in the [[9...
12: ...g [[Oenomaus]] had challenged his daughter [[Hippodamia]]'s suitors to a race, under pain of killing t...
21: ...s used the Olympiads to count years, much as we today use [[Anno Domini|AD]] and BC. Thus, by that chr...
29: ...usanias]] writes that in [[668 BC]], Pheidon of [[Argos]] was commissioned by the town of Pisa to capture...
37: ...[[394|AD 394]] the Olympic Games - one of the foundations of Greek religion, with their polytheistic o... - Zeus (17267 bytes)
2: '''Zeus''' (descendant of [[Cronus]]is the leader of the gods and [[go...
6: ...do-European religion]], also continued as [[Rig-Veda|Vedic]] '''[[Dyaus Pita]]r''' (cf. [[Jupiter (god...
33: .... With the [[Kouretes]], a band of ecstatic armed dancers, he presided over the rigorous military-athl...
42: ...ro or an underground Zeus. Thus the shrine at Lebadaea in [[Boeotia]] might belong to the hero [[Troph...
50: ...]], but the goddess [[Dione (mythology)|Dione]] — whose name is a feminine form of "Zeus". Her s... - Acropolis (1763 bytes)
6: ...ciated primarily with Greek cities ([[Athens]], [[Argos]], [[Thebes, Greece|Thebes]], and [[Corinth, Gree... - Peloponnesian War (15884 bytes)
5: ...an military power allowed it to challenge the Lacedaemonians (commonly known as the [[Sparta|Spartans]...
7: ... of Sybota]], and placed [[Battle of Potidaea|Potidaea]], a Corinthian colony, under siege. The Atheni...
9: == The "Archidamian War" ==
11: ... were very nearly unbeatable (thanks to the legendary Spartan forces). The Athenian Empire, though ba...
13: ...nown as the Archidamian War after its king [[Archidamus II]], was to invade Attica, the land surroundi... - Greco-Persian Wars (5983 bytes)
3: ..., from western China to eastern Europe. In 513 BC Darius for the first time conquered [[Thrace]] and [...
7: ...n [[490 BC|490]] by the punitive expediation of [[Datis]] and [[Artaphernes]]. The islands of the [[C...
9: ...th failed. At Thermopylae, King [[Leonidas I|Leonidas]] of Sparta and his 300 soldiers, as well as [[D... - Hermes (10248 bytes)
3: ... ''hermaion''. An interpreter who bridges the boundaries with strangers is a ''hermeneus.'' Hermes giv...
6: As the related word Herma ?a boundary stone, crossing point? would suggest, Hermes is...
13: ...nglish ''Wednesday'' from ''Wodnes d槧' 'Woden's day'.
21: As a crosser of boundaries, ''Hermēs Psychopompos''' ("conductor of...
26: .... The ''hermai'' were used to mark roads and boundaries. In [[Athens, Greece|Athens]], they were pla... - Argon (6952 bytes)
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32: ...=Ar | na=[[synthetic radioisotope|syn]] | hl=35 [[day|d]] | dm=[[Electron capture|ε]] | de=? |...
54: ...ing]]. It has also been used for [[ground water]] dating.
60: Argon ([[Greek language|Greek]] ''argos'' meaning "inactive") was suspected to be present...
71: ...ng|nuclear explosions]]. It has a half-life of 35 days. - Aegean civilization (41260 bytes)
37: ...o far to prove that the civilization continued fundamentally and essentially the same throughout.
39: It is supported by less abundant remains of other arts. That of painting in fres...
43: ...riod at [[Phaestus]], and possibly at [[Hagia Triada]].
49: ... remains with known Egyptian remains which can be dated to Dynasties.
51: ... early Minoan vases and others found in Egypt and dated to the 1st Dynasty [[4000BC]].
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