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- War (7002 bytes)
1: ...racterised by the use of violent, physical force between [[combatant]]s or upon [[civilian]]s. Other t...
6: ... human societies. Certain [[hunter-gatherer]] societies engaged in skirmishes over territory and resou...
16: ...is attitude was embraced by many societies from [[Sparta]] in [[Ancient Greece]] and the [[Ancient Rome|An...
22: ...f civilians and the mobilization of an entire society.
26: Sometimes the term "war" is restricted by legal definit... - Ancient Greece (23806 bytes)
2: ...Graecia|Great Greece]]), and the scattered Greek settlements on the coasts of what are now [[Albania]]...
14: [[Image:vcycladic.jpg|thumb|left|Marble statuette from the Cycladic islands, 3000 BC]]
20: ...eeks adapted the [[Phoenicia|Phoenician]] [[alphabet]] to Greek and from about [[800 BC|800 BC]] a wri...
22: [[Image:athenssunset.jpg|thumb|left|The [[Acropolis, Athens|Acropolis]...
24: ...lbania]], [[Sicily]] and southern [[Italy]] were settled, followed by the south coast of [[France]], [... - Agesilaus II (5597 bytes)
1: ...s had, indeed, a son [[Leotychides]], but he was set aside as illegitimate, current rumour representin...
3: ...s continued failure. An armistice was concluded between Tithraustes and Agesilaus, who left the south...
4: ...s recalled to [[Greece]] owing to the war between Sparta and the combined forces of [[Athens]], [[Thebes, ...
5: troops and a Spartan army, he met the confederate forces
8: and he had to retire by way of [[Delphi]] to the [[Peloponnese]]. - Agis II (2300 bytes)
1: ...uled with his [[Agiad]] co-monarch [[Pausanias of Sparta|Pausanius]].
3: ...n [[427 BC]], and as king was the chief leader of Spartan military
8: The Spartans were indignant, and when the Argives and their ...
10: ...eir [[perioeci]] (citizens of cities conquered by Sparta, who were given some privileges) and to allow
11: ...mpic Games]] and sacrifices. He fell ill on his return from [[Delphi]], where he had gone to dedicate... - Alcibiades (7778 bytes)
9: The laborious thought, the ascetic life of his master [[Socrates]], he was able to...
19: ... succeeded by an unscrupulous trick in duping the Spartan ambassadors, and persuading the Athenians to con...
23: ...e investigation being refused, he was obliged to set sail with the charge still hanging over him.
25: ...e escaped on the journey home and made his way to Sparta.
26: ...nd his property confiscated, he openly joined the Spartans, and persuaded them to send [[Gylippus]] to ass... - Alcman (1163 bytes)
1: ...s assigned the first place among the nine lyric poets of Greece in the [[Alexandria]]n canon, flourish...
3: ... Greek shows that he must have come very early to Sparta, where, after the close of the Messenian wars, th...
5: ...lcman composed various kinds of poems in various metres; ''Parthenia'' (maidens' songs), hymns, paeans...
7: ...gypt]]ian [[papyrus]]; some later discovered hexameters are attributed to Alcman or [[Erinna]] (''Oxyr... - Amyntas III of Macedon (1278 bytes)
5: He concluded a treaty with the [[Sparta]]ns, who assisted him to reduce [[Olynthus]] ([[3... - Andocides (1237 bytes)
3: ...[391 BC]] he was one of the ambassadors sent to [[Sparta]] to discuss peace terms, but the negotiations fa...
5: ...n Mysteries]]; ''De Pace,'' advocating peace with Sparta; ''Contra [[Alcibiades|Alcibiadem]],'' generally ... - Antalcidas (1665 bytes)
1: '''Antalcidas''' was a [[Sparta]]n soldier and diplomat, the son of Leon.
3: ...o undermine the friendly relations then existing between [[Athens]] and Persia, offering to recognize ...
5: ...act his efforts. Tiribazus, who was favourable to Sparta, threw Conon into prison, but [[Artaxerxes II]] (...
12: ...favour with Artaxerxes, until the annihilation of Spartan supremacy agfter the [[Battle of Leuctra]] dimin... - Pyrrhus of Epirus (7425 bytes)
5: ... Next, he went to war against his former ally, Demetrius. By [[286 BC]] he had deposed his former brot...
17: ... invaded [[Apulia]] ([[279 BC]]), the two armies met in the [[Battle of Asculum]] where Pyrrhus won a ...
23: ...ther battle, he was forced to abandon Sicily and return to Italy.
25: When he returned, he fought a last inconclusive battle at [[B...
27: ...oll on his army as well as his treasury, Pyrrhus yet again went to war. Attacking King [[Antigonus II ... - Socrates (7975 bytes)
2: ...{polytonic|Σωκράτης}} Sōkrá´Ĥamp;#275;s) was a Greek (...
5: ...ner accustomed to wilder horses might be more competent than one not. Socrates enjoyed going to [[Symp...
9: ...ee leading public figures to try Socrates for impiety and for corrupting the youth of Athens. Accordin...
11: ...auty, and virtue; finding that they knew nothing yet believed they knew much led Socrates to the concl...
15: See [[Trial of Socrates]] for more detail and background about Socrates' trial and execu... - Artemis (11271 bytes)
3: ...she was known as [[Diana (goddess)|Diana]]. In [[Etruscan mythology]], she took the form of [[Artume]...
11: ...the [[Acts of the Apostles]], where the Ephesian metalsmiths who feel threatened by Paul's preaching o...
13: ...ron]] and the festival of [[Artemis Orthia]] in [[Sparta]].
37: ...hplace on [[Mount Cynthus]] on [[Delos]]. She sometimes used the name [[Phoebe]], the feminine form o...
41: ...on the island of [[Ortygia]] and that she helped Leto cross the sea to Delos the next day to give birt... - Ancient Olympic Games (9077 bytes)
2: The '''Ancient Olympic Games''' were an athletic and religious celebration held in the [[Greece|...
10: ...im to organise games in honour of the gods. The [[Sparta]]n adversary of Iphitos then decided to stop the ...
19: ...anctuary of Zeus in Olympia housed a [[1 E1 m|12 metre]]s high [[Statue of Zeus at Olympia|statue in i...
23: ...about [[1 E2 m|190 metre]]s, measured after the feet of Hercules.
25: ...ames, using the term ''Olympiad'' for the period between two Games. - Zeus (17267 bytes)
13: ...igion|religious]] beliefs and the [[archetype|archetypal]] Greek deity.
32: ====Cretan Zeus====
33: ...itary-athletic training and secret rites of the Cretan [[paideia]].
37: ...ogically connected to ''lyke'' "brightness", and yet it ''looks'' a lot like ''lykos'' "wolf". This se...
40: ...[[chthonic]] deities like [[Persephone]] and [[Demeter]], and also the [[heroes]] at their tombs. Olym... - Acropolis, Athens (7462 bytes)
9: ... a flat-topped rock which rises 150 metres (512 feet) above sea level in the city of [[Athens, Greece|...
13: ...tween 4.50 and 6 metres) consisting of two [[parapet]]s built with large blocks made of stones cemente...
16: ...s defeated by a popular revolt supported by the [[Sparta]]ns, the walls were demolished. On the same spot,...
20: ...e was finished in the time of [[Nicias]]' peace, between [[421 BC]] and [[415 BC]].
22: ...e, decorated by [[Mys]] with images of the fight between the [[Centaur]]s and the [[Lapiths]]. Other m... - Athena Nike (1650 bytes)
1: ...g she would remain in Athens for success over the Spartans. - Peloponnesian War (15884 bytes)
1: ...and the [[Peloponnesian League]] which included [[Sparta]] and [[Corinth, Greece|Corinth]]. The war was do...
5: ...he Lacedaemonians (commonly known as the [[Sparta|Spartans]]), who, as leaders of the [[Peloponnesian Leag...
7: ...economic sanctions against [[Megara]], an ally of Sparta. These sanctions, known as the [[Megarian decree]...
11: ... very nearly unbeatable (thanks to the legendary Spartan forces). The Athenian Empire, though based in th...
13: ...to go home to take care of the harvest. Moreover, Spartan slaves, known as [[helots]], needed to be kept u... - Greco-Persian Wars (5983 bytes)
1: ...or '''Persian Wars''' were a series of conflicts between the [[ancient Greece|Greek]] world and the [[...
5: ...esponse in the form of an invasion. The Greek fleet was crushed at the [[Battle of Lade]] in [[494 BC...
7: ...ner)|Phidippides]] got the message for help to [[Sparta]] in record time, but in the end the Athenians an...
9: ...them. Following the defeat, Xerxes and his fleet retired to Asia, where a heavy rebellion had started ...
11: ...[Leotychides]] destroyed the remaining Persian fleet in the [[battle of Mycale]]. - Mycenaean Greece (6175 bytes)
2: ...of Greece|ancient Greece]]. It is the historical setting of the [[epic]]s of [[Homer]] and much other ...
6: The Mycenaean period fell between the arrival of the Greeks in the [[Aegean Sea...
8: ... the [[Mycenaeans]] extended their control to [[Crete]], center of the [[Minoan civilization]], and ad...
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41: ...ill of the [[shaft graves]] of [[Lerna]] and the settlements of Voroulia and Nichoria ([[Messenia]]), ... - Aegean Sea (2751 bytes)
3: ... is an arm of the [[Mediterranean Sea]], located between the Greek peninsula and [[Anatolia]] (Asia Mi...
7: ...ocracy|democracies]], and it allowed for contact between several diverse civilizations of the Eastern ...
9: ... of many smaller islands is a source of conflict between [[Turkey]] and [[Greece]].
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