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- Ancient Greece (23806 bytes)
2: ...]], but also to those areas settled in ancient times by Greeks: [[Cyprus]], the [[Aegean]] coast of [[...
4: ...peaking, were so different from later Greek cultures that they should be classed separately.
6: ... to begin with the date of the first [[Olympic Games]] in [[776 BC]], but most historians now extend t...
8: These dates are historians' conventions and some writers trea...
10: ...orld, particularly during the [[Renaissance]] in Western Europe and again during various [[Classicism|... - Alcibiades (7778 bytes)
1: [[Image:Alcibiades.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Alcibiades]]
2: ...#937;ΝΙΔΗΣ</small>)[[#Notes|¹]] (c. [[450 BC]]-[[404 BC]]) was an Atheni...
5: He was a near relative of [[Pericles]], who, after the death of Cleinias at the [[Batt...
6: Thus early deprived of his father's control, possessed of great personal beauty and the heir to great...
8: ... at the common ideas of justice, temperance, holiness and patriotism. - Anaxagoras (6622 bytes)
9: ...rned to love and admire him and the poet [[Euripides]] derived from him an enthusiasm for science and ...
10: ...ssert that even [[Socrates]] was among his disciples.
12: ...is nature and his superiority to ordinary weaknesses—traits which legend has embalmed.
14: ...of the celestial bodies led him to form new theories of the universal order, and brought him into coll...
15: ...he [[Peloponnesus]]; the heavenly bodies were masses of stone torn from the earth and ignited by rapid... - William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
1: [[Image:Shakespeare.jpg|frame|right|William Shakespeare ([[National Portrait Gallery, London|Nationa...
2: ... and [[playwright]], has a reputation as the greatest of all [[writer]]s in the [[English language]], ...
4: ...e continually performed all around the world. Shakespeare was among the very few playwrights who have ...
6: ... uncertain. His prolific output is especially impressive in light of the fact that he lived only 52 ye...
8: ...ases]], and the many [[list of adaptations of Shakespearean plays|adaptations]] of his works. - Parthenon (12682 bytes)
1: ... Parthenon seen from the hill of the Pnyx to the west]]
3: ...f Athena the Virgin''', and its popular name derives from the Greek word ''παρθ	...
5: ...enon replaced an older [[temple]] which had been destroyed by the [[Iran|Persians]]. As well as being ...
7: ==Design and construction==
8: [[Image:ac.parthenon2.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The western face of the Parthenon remains relatively inta... - Acropolis, Athens (7462 bytes)
2: ...thens, seen from the hill of the [[Pnyx]] to the west]]
3: ...ropolis of Athens, seen from the north, with the restored [[Stoa of Attalus]] in the foreground]]
7: ...ge:Acropolis of Athens 01361.JPG|thumb|200px|The western side of the Parthenon]]
9: ...ropolis is a flat-topped rock which rises 150 metres (512 feet) above sea level in the city of [[Athen...
11: ... Acropolis ceased to function primarily as a fortress. - Peloponnesian War (15884 bytes)
1: ...r]]''. Most of the extant comedies of [[Aristophanes]] were written during this war, and poke fun at t...
3: == Causes of the war ==
5: ...rta|Spartans]]), who, as leaders of the [[Peloponnesian League]], had long been the sole major militar...
7: ...ikely a greater catalyst for the war than Thucydides and other ancient authors realized, more so than ...
11: ...ers were relatively unable to fight decisive battles. - Greco-Persian Wars (5983 bytes)
1: ...-Persian Wars''' or '''Persian Wars''' were a series of conflicts between the [[ancient Greece|Greek]]...
3: ...most of Ionian cities and forced Greeks to pay taxes for the "King of Kings".
5: ...e of Lade]] in [[494 BC|494]], and the Ionian cities sacked, although they were permitted to have demo...
7: ...dippides (Marathon runner)|Phidippides]] got the message for help to [[Sparta]] in record time, but i...
9: ...[Babylon]], leaving Mardonius to winter over in Thessaly with the army.
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