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- Ancient Greece (23806 bytes)
2: ...en known as [[Ionia]]), [[Sicily]] and southern [[Italy]] (known as [[Magna Graecia|Great Greece]]), a...
4: ...ut historians use the term more precisely. Some writers include the periods of the [[Minoan civilizati...
6: ...xtend the term back to about [[1000 BC]]. The traditional date for the end of the Ancient Greek period...
8: ... continuum running until the advent of [[Christianity]] in the [[third century]] AD.
10: ...ics, educational systems, philosophy, art and architecture of the modern world, particularly during th... - Agis II (2300 bytes)
1: ...s]] and half brother of [[Agesilaus]]. He ruled with his [[Agiad]] co-monarch [[Pausanias of Sparta|P...
3: ...], and as king was the chief leader of Spartan military
4: ...ke out, Agis led the invasion of [[Attica, Greece|Attica]] in [[425 BC]].
6: ...unaccountably concluded a four months' truce and withdrew his forces.
8: ... was ended in spring 404 by the surrender of the city. - Alcibiades (7778 bytes)
2: ...0 BC]]-[[404 BC]]) was an Athenian general and politician.
9: ...[[Socrates]], he was able to admire, but not to imitate or practise.
10: On the contrary, his ostentatious vanity, his amours, his debaucheries and his impious re...
11: But great as were his vices, his abilities were even greater.
15: ...e is so beautiful, golden, divine, and wonderful within that everything he commands surely must be obe... - Franklin D. Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
2: | nationality=american
15: | party=[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
18: ...[April 12]], [[1945]]), 32nd [[President of the United States]], the longest-serving holder of the off...
20: ...preserve peace was brought to fruition as the [[United Nations]] after his death.
22: ...opinions of him are more complex. Some liberals criticise measures such as the internment of the Japan... - Parthenon (12682 bytes)
3: ...called the '''Temple of Athena the Virgin''', and its popular name derives from the Greek word ''π...
9: ...ad charge of the sculptural decoration. The [[architect]]s were [[Iktinos]] and [[Kallikrates]]. Const...
11: ...o make the temple look even more symmetrical than it actually is.
13: ...er. The stylobate has an upward curvature towards its centre of 60 millimetres on the east and west en...
19: ...not known what was depicted on the northern side: it may have been scenes from the [[Trojan War]]. - Acropolis, Athens (7462 bytes)
1: ...ght.jpg|none|thumb|805px|The Acropolis of Athens lit up at night, seen from Phillopapus Hill]]
3: ...px|The Acropolis of Athens, seen from the north, with the restored [[Stoa of Attalus]] in the foregrou...
9: ...he city of [[Athens, Greece|Athens]], [[Greece]]. It was also known as '''Cecropia''' in honor of the ...
11: ...egan as an iron-age fort on top of the Acropolis. It was not until after the [[Persian Wars]] that the...
13: ... built with large blocks made of stones cemented with an earth mortar called ''[[emplekton]]''. The ma... - Peloponnesian War (15884 bytes)
1: ...with a 6-year [[truce]] in the middle, and ended with Athens' surrender in [[404 BC]].
5: ...nnesian League]], had long been the sole major military power in Greece.
7: ...rians have noted that forbidding Megara to trade with the prosperous Athenian empire would have been d...
11: ...ss the islands of the [[Aegean Sea]]; Athens drew its immense wealth from tribute paid from these isla...
13: ...nths at a time; in the tradition of earlier [[hoplite]] warfare the soldiers expected to go home to ta... - Greco-Persian Wars (5983 bytes)
3: ...f Asia Minor installed tyrants in most of Ionian cities and forced Greeks to pay taxes for the "King o...
5: ... the Ionian cities sacked, although they were permitted to have democratic governments afterwards.
7: ...ed, and the expedition landed in [[Attica, Greece|Attica]] near [[Marathon]]. [[Phidippides (Marathon run...
9: ...]], leaving Mardonius to winter over in Thessaly with the army.
11: ...0 Athenian and Peloponnesian [[hoplite]]s, ended with the [[Battle of Plataea]]; Mardonius was killed,... - Architecture of Ancient Greece (9161 bytes)
3: ... Greek), and from late written sources such as [[Vitruvius]] ([[1st century AD]]). This means that the...
5: ... are not known before the [[5th century]]. An architect like [[Iktinos]], who designed the [[Parthenon...
7: ...its transportation in large blocks was difficult. It was used mainly for sculptural decoration, not st...
10: ...Academy building in Athens, showing the pediment with sculptures]]</td>
14: ...roofed their buildings with timber beams covered with overlapping terra cotta (or occasionally marble... - Mycenaean Greece (6175 bytes)
2: ...s]], and [[Tiryns]] are also important Mycenaean sites.
8: ...a form the Minoan script called [[Linear A]] to write their early form of [[Greek language|Greek]]. Th...
10: ...uried in a sitting position, and some of the nobility underwent [[mummy|mummification]].
12: ...le, the [[Dorians]], although the historical validity of this theory is now doubted.
50: ...ycenaen expansion covering most of the Eastern Mediterranean. There are many new shapes. The motifs of... - Aegean civilization (41260 bytes)
2: ...e usual now to use the more general geographical title.
6: ...egean civilization has never been in doubt, since its remains came to be studied seriously.
7: ...ve originated with Egyptians or Phoenicians, but with more remains uncovered this was shown to be untr...
11: ...age were identical, or even obviously connected, with those of any other script. The decipherment in t...
15: ...rming the impression already created by the goldsmiths' and painters' work of the Greek mainland ([[My... - Franklin Delano Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
2: | nationality=american
15: | party=[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
18: ...[April 12]], [[1945]]), 32nd [[President of the United States]], the longest-serving holder of the off...
20: ...preserve peace was brought to fruition as the [[United Nations]] after his death.
22: ...opinions of him are more complex. Some liberals criticise measures such as the internment of the Japan...
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