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- Ancient Greece (23806 bytes)
4: ...nt from later Greek cultures that they should be classed separately.
6: ...e Great]] in [[323 BC]]. The following period is classed [[History of Hellenistic Greece|Hellenistic]]...
10: ...Europe and again during various [[Classicism|neo-Classical]] revivals in [[18th century|18th]] and [[1...
14: ...g|thumb|left|Marble statuette from the Cycladic islands, 3000 BC]]
15: ... beginning in the late [[3rd millennium BC]], the last being the [[Dorian invasion]]. The period from ... - 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...
5: Acusilaus claimed to have taken some of his information from br... - Ageladas (723 bytes)
1: ... [[Argos|Argive]] sculptor, who flourished in the latter part of the [[6th century BC|6th]] and the ea...
3: ...of [[Zeus]], copied on the coins of that city. Ageladas was said to have been the teacher of [[Myron]]...
5: We have no work of Ageladas surviving; but we have an inscription which co... - Agesilaus II (5597 bytes)
1: ...as disappointed, and the increasing power of Agesilaus soon led to his downfall.
3: ...istice was concluded between Tithraustes and Agesilaus, who left the southern satrapy and again invade...
4: ...Greece|Thebes]], [[Corinth%2C_Greece|Corinth]], [[Argos]] and several minor states. A rapid march throug...
13: Subsequently Agesilaus took a prominent part in the [[Corinthian War]]...
16: neutralized these successes, and Agesilaus returned to - Agis II (2300 bytes)
1: ... son of [[Archidamus]] and half brother of [[Agesilaus]]. He ruled with his [[Agiad]] co-monarch [[Pa...
4: operations on land. When the [[Peloponnesian War]] broke out, Agi...
6: ...of Nicias]] ([[421 BC]]) he marched against the [[Argos|Argives]] in defence of [[Epidaurus]], and after ...
8: ...y. In the winter 417-416 a further expedition to Argos resulted in the destruction of the half-finished ...
14: He was succeeded by [[Agesilaus]]. - Alcibiades (7778 bytes)
5: He was a near relative of [[Pericles]], who, after the death of Clei...
7: ...y manhood supply the corrective which his boyhood lacked.
8: ...otagoras]], [[Prodicus]], and others he learnt to laugh at the common ideas of justice, temperance, ho...
9: The laborious thought, the ascetic life of his master [[...
19: ...nians to conclude an alliance ([[420 BC]]) with [[Argos]], [[Elis]], and [[Mantineia]]. - Alexander I of Macedon (1759 bytes)
3: ... them of Mardonius' plans before the [[Battle of Plataea]] in [[479 BC]]. Alexander eventually regaine...
5: ...After a court of [[hellanodikai]] determined his claim to be true, he was permitted to participate in ... - Pyrrhus of Epirus (7425 bytes)
1: ...959;ς'' - "the color of fire", "red-blonde", Latin ''Pyrrhus'') - the Molossian king from ca. [[2...
5: ...y [[286 BC]] he had deposed his former brother-in-law and took control over the Kingdom of [[Macedonia...
9: ...nto_location.png|thumb|240px|left|Most important places in the [[Pyrrhic War]] ([[280 BC|280]]-[[275 B...
15: ... the Romans under their consul [[Publius Valerius Laevinus]] in [[280 BC]]. Romans lost about 7,000 an...
21: ...proclaimed king of Sicily. He was already making plans for his son Helenus to inherit the kingdom of S... - Ancient Olympic Games (9077 bytes)
8: ...ld be re-enacted every four years, while another claims that deity [[Zeus]] had instated the festival ...
10: ...x|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]Another myth tells of King [[Iphi...
12: ...ss but not before murdering Myrtilus, whose curse later resulted in the fall of the house of [[Atreus]...
18: ... [[Pisa|Pisatis]] (both in [[Elis]] on the peninsula of [[Peloponnesos]]).
21: ... chronology, the first Olympiad would have taken place in 919 BC. - Zeus (17267 bytes)
1: ..., Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
6: ...ic]] and [[Norse mythology]]. Tyr was however supplanted by [[Odin]] as the supreme god among the [[Ge...
8: ...n addition to his Indo-European inheritance, the classical Zeus also derives certain iconographic trai...
13: Zeus played a huge role in the [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] Ol...
17: * A related title was '''Panhellenios''', ('Zeus of all th... - Acropolis (1763 bytes)
4: ...s became in many parts of the world the nuclei of large cities which grew up on the surrounding lower ...
6: ...citadels ([[Rome]], [[Jerusalem]], Celtic [[Bratislava]], many in [[Asia Minor]], or even Castle Hill ...
10: ...omclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]Because of its classical Greco-Roman style, the ruins of [[Mission S...
12: ...r at the base of a fortified habitation known as "La Rocca" of the commune. - Peloponnesian War (15884 bytes)
1: ... and poke fun at the generals and events. The war lasted 27 years, with a 6-year [[truce]] in the midd...
5: ...henian military power allowed it to challenge the Lacedaemonians (commonly known as the [[Sparta|Spart...
7: ...sanctions, known as the [[Megarian decree]], were largely ignored by Thucydides, but modern economic h...
11: ...d from these islands. Thus, the two powers were relatively unable to fight decisive battles.
13: ...e to take care of the harvest. Moreover, Spartan slaves, known as [[helots]], needed to be kept under ... - Greco-Persian Wars (5983 bytes)
1: ...hians]] and [[Sassanid dynasty|Sassanids]], which lasted hundreds of years.
3: ...affairs that was going to cause trouble sooner or later. Persian satraps (governors) of Asia Minor ins...
5: .... The Greek fleet was crushed at the [[Battle of Lade]] in [[494 BC|494]], and the Ionian cities sack...
7: ... record time, but in the end the Athenians and [[Plataea]]ns alone defeated the Persians in the [[batt...
9: ...o manoeuver, allowing the lighter Greek ships to flank and destroy them. Following the defeat, Xerxes ... - Hermes (10248 bytes)
1: .... Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
6: ... in which the wind may transfer objects from one place to another, and with the transition to the afte...
9: ...]] and [[Arcadia]]. His origin on Mt. Cyllene explains the origin of an epithet for Hermēs: ''He...
11: ...ashion, the name [[Hermes Trismegistus]] was used later by [[alchemy|alchemists]] and their like to re...
13: ...with the Germanic god Wotan/Woden/[[Odin]], hence Latin ''dies Mercurius'' corresponds to English ''We... - Argon (6952 bytes)
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46: ... lattice of the water molecules. Theoretical calculations on computers have shown several Argon compou...
49: ...ed in lighting since it will not react with the filament in a [[lightbulb]] even under high temperatur...
52: *as a non-reactive blanket in the manufacture of [[titanium]] and other ... - Aegean civilization (41260 bytes)
2: ...n" because its existence was first brought to popular notice by [[Heinrich Schliemann]]'s excavations ...
15: ...e goldsmiths' and painters' work of the Greek mainland ([[Mycenae]], [[Vaphio]], [[Tiryns]]).
19: The arrangement of Aegean palaces is of two main types.
21: ...from a long side and divided longitudinally by pillars.
23: ...ith [[Egyptian]], [[Babylonian]] and [[Hittite]] plans, both these arrangements remain out of keeping ...
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