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- Ancient Greece (23806 bytes)
2: '''''Ancient Greece''''' is the term used to describe the [[Ancient Greek|Greek]]-speaking world ...
4: ...ns use the term more precisely. Some writers include the periods of the [[Minoan civilization|Minoan]]...
6: ... the Ancient Greek period is the death of [[Alexander the Great]] in [[323 BC]]. The following period ...
10: ...ystems, philosophy, art and architecture of the modern world, particularly during the [[Renaissance]] ...
15: ... died in [[323 BC|323 BC]]. Subsequent events are described in [[History of Hellenistic Greece]]. - Agathias (4785 bytes)
5: ...on the ''Periegetes'' of [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]].
7: ...iefly with the struggles of the Byzantine army, under the command of the eunuch [[Narses]], against th...
9: ...oked on as a valuable authority for the period he describes." —[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/...
11: ...readth of Agathias' culture was not Christian (Kaldellis).
13: ...he history of [[freedom of thought]]— to [[Edessa]], where just a century later the forces of Is... - Agathon (3124 bytes)
1: ...m]]'' and ''[[Protagoras (Plato)|Protagoras]]''. Pausanias followed Agathon to the court of Archelaus, king...
4: ...rlesques his flowery style, representing him as a delicate and effeminate youth, and it may be only fo...
6: ...t in manly thought and vigor. With him begins the decline of tragic art in its higher sense. - Agis II (2300 bytes)
1: ...laus]]. He ruled with his [[Agiad]] co-monarch [[Pausanias of Sparta|Pausanius]].
3: ...bably in [[427 BC]], and as king was the chief leader of Spartan military
6: ...tory within his grasp when he unaccountably concluded a four months' truce and withdrew his forces.
8: ...thens, which was ended in spring 404 by the surrender of the city.
10: Subsequently he invaded and ravaged [[Elis]], forcing the Eleans to ackn... - Alcamenes (1026 bytes)
3: ... a [[Hephaestus]] and an [[Aphrodite]] "of the Gardens" were conspicuous.
5: ...Mittheilungen'', 1904, p. 180). As, however, the deity is represented in an archaistic and convention...
7: ...ich he must almost certainly have taken a share under the direction of Pheidias. - Alexander the Great (42049 bytes)
2: ...erTheGreat_Bust.jpg|thumb|right|[[Bust]] of Alexander III in the [[British Museum]].]]
4: ... as the [[Middle-Persian]] literature as '''Alexander the Cursed''' due to his burning of the Persian ...
6: ...ady during his lifetime, and especially after his death, his exploits inspired a literary tradition in...
9: ...[Aristotle]] was Alexander's tutor; he gave Alexander a thorough training in rhetoric and literature a...
11: ...racles]] through [[Caranus]] and his mother descended from [[Aeacus]] through [[Neoptolemus]] and [[Ac... - Amyntas I of Macedon (1062 bytes)
4: ... [[Thucydides]] ii. 100; [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]] ix. 40).
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9: | width="30%" align="center" | Preceded by:<br />'''[[Alcetas I of Macedon|Alcetas I]]''...
11: ...ceeded by:<br />'''[[Alexander I of Macedon|Alexander I]]''' - Rhianus (1241 bytes)
1: ...istomenes]], and used by [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]] in his fourth book as a trustworthy authority. ... - Ephesus (4587 bytes)
1: ...ean Sea]] (in modern day [[Turkey]]). It was founded by colonists principally from [[Athens]]. The [[...
4: ...jpg|thumb|left|250px|Ruins at Ephesus. Photo provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar...
5: ...r)|Pausanias]] (4.31.8) and one of the [[Seven Wonders of the World]], of which scarcely a trace remai...
9: ...x|The Ruins at Ephesus, Efes tourists. Photo provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar...
11: ...uished for the [[Temple of Artemis]] ([[Diana (goddess)|Diana]]), who had her chief shrine there, for ... - Ancient Olympic Games (9077 bytes)
8: ...eity [[Zeus]] had instated the festival after his defeat of the [[titan (mythology)|Titan]] [[Cronus]]...
10: ...ds. The [[Sparta]]n adversary of Iphitos then decided to stop the war during these games, which were c...
12: ...ed. Pelops married the princess but not before murdering Myrtilus, whose curse later resulted in the f...
18: ...ympia, Greece, a sanctuary site for the [[List of deities|Greek gods]] near the towns of Elis and [[Pi...
19: ...]]. This statue was one of the ancient [[Seven Wonders of the World]]. - Zeus (17267 bytes)
1: [[Image:Zeus_god.jpg|thumb|250px|Zeus, Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar...
2: ...leader of the gods and [[god]] of the sky and thunder in [[Greek mythology]].
6: ...d among the [[Germanic tribes]] and they did not identify Zeus/Jupiter with either Tyr or Odin, but wi...
8: ...ndo-European inheritance, the classical Zeus also derives certain iconographic traits from the culture...
13: ...]] beliefs and the [[archetype|archetypal]] Greek deity. - Atlantis (41399 bytes)
2: ...own time. Plato did mention it was somewhere outside the [[Pillars of Hercules]] (i.e. the [[Straits o...
7: ...m his grandfather also named Critias, son of Dropides.
12: ...intended to illustrate Plato's philosophy of the ideal government. Plato's account purports to be base...
14: ... of [[Gades]] (Greek, [[Eumelus]]; Atlantean, [[Gadeirus]]).
17: ... come from the continent beyond the islands, in order to offer sacrifice to the gods of the ocean. - Greco-Persian Wars (5983 bytes)
3: ...sia Minor]] (546 BC) left the [[Ionia]]n Greeks under Persian rule, while the other Greeks were free, ...
5: ...ties sacked, although they were permitted to have democratic governments afterwards.
7: ... in the end the Athenians and [[Plataea]]ns alone defeated the Persians in the [[battle of Marathon]].
9: ...ek ships to flank and destroy them. Following the defeat, Xerxes and his fleet retired to Asia, where ...
11: ...eet commanded by the Spartan king [[Leotychides]] destroyed the remaining Persian fleet in the [[battl... - Aegean civilization (41260 bytes)
2: ... [[1876]]. However, subsequent discoveries have made it clear that Mycenae was not its chief center of...
7: ...s was shown to be untrue. The Aegean civilization developed three distinctive features.
11: ...ipt, but an earlier script [[Linear A]] remains undeciphered.
21: ...ater oblongs are entered from a long side and divided longitudinally by pillars.
23: ...ype see [[Crete]]. In spite of many comparisons made with [[Egyptian]], [[Babylonian]] and [[Hittite]]... - List of geographers (2342 bytes)
1: ...] [[alphabet|alphabetical]] [[transliteration]] order (by [[surname]]s).
2: [[Image:Environment_09.jpg|thumb|200px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
18: * [[John Dee]] (England, [[1527]] - [[1608]])
31: * [[Torsten H䧥rstrand]] (Sweden, ([[1916]]-[[2004]])
41: * [[Halford John Mackinder]], (UK [[1861]] - [[1947]])
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