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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 ... - Agis II (2300 bytes)
1: ... son of [[Archidamus]] and half brother of [[Agesilaus]]. He ruled with his [[Agiad]] co-monarch [[Pa...
4: ...ke out, Agis led the invasion of [[Attica, Greece|Attica]] in [[425 BC]].
8: ...on of [[Alcibiades]], he fortified [[Decelea]] in Attica, where he remained directing operations until, af...
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 [[...
21: ...h great enthusiasm, and Alcibiades, Nicias, and [[Lamachus]] were appointed joint commanders. - Franklin D. Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Franklin Delano Roosevelt
10: | place of birth=[[Hyde Park, New York|Hyde Park]], [[N...
13: | place of death=[[Warm Springs, Georgia]]
16: ...vicepresident=[[John N. Garner]]<br>[[Henry A. Wallace]]<br>[[Harry S. Truman]]
18: ...nd privilege, he overcame a crippling illness to place himself at the head of the forces of reform. Hi... - Parthenon (12682 bytes)
3: ...he '''Temple of Athena the Virgin''', and its popular name derives from the Greek word ''πα&...
5: ...n of the treasury of the [[Delian League]], which later became the [[Athenian Empire]].
8: ...300px|The western face of the Parthenon remains relatively intact.]]
9: ...unts for the Parthenon survive, and show that the largest single expense was transporting the stone fr...
11: ...'entasis'' of the columns." The stylobate is the platform on which the columns stand. It curves upward... - Acropolis, Athens (7462 bytes)
9: ...polis" without qualification. The Acropolis is a flat-topped rock which rises 150 metres (512 feet) ab...
11: The Acropolis rises sharply from the plain of [[Attica]] with steep cliffs on three sides. It is accessi...
13: ...condary entrance was located close to the royal palace. To the north-west a small gate and a stair lea...
16: ...hat purpose, damaged portions of the wall were replaced by a wooden fence, but this did not stop the [...
20: ...ure gallery. At the same time, south of the propylaea, the building of the small Ionic temple of [[At... - 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 ... - Architecture of Ancient Greece (9161 bytes)
3: ...an architecture]] heavily copied Greek), and from late written sources such as [[Vitruvius]] ([[1st ce...
5: ...r. The architect designed the building, hired the labourers and craftsmen who built it, and was respon...
7: ...ly, except in the very grandest buildings of the Classical period such as the [[Parthenon]].
14: ...heir buildings with timber beams covered with overlapping terra cotta (or occasionally marble) tiles....
16: ...roof, was a row of blocks now known as the [[entablature]], whose outward-facing surfaces also provide... - Mycenaean Greece (6175 bytes)
2: ...nown as '''Bronze Age Greece''', is the [[Late Helladic]] [[Bronze Age]] civilization of [[History of ...
6: ...and historians doubt that any such invasion took place.
8: ...[[Linear A]] to write their early form of [[Greek language|Greek]]. The Mycenaean era script is called...
10: ...les in [[beehive tombs]] (''tholoi''), large circular burial chambers with a high vaulted roof and str...
12: ...st their literacy. Historians have traditionally blamed this decline on an invasion by another wave of... - 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 ... - Franklin Delano Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Franklin Delano Roosevelt
10: | place of birth=[[Hyde Park, New York|Hyde Park]], [[N...
13: | place of death=[[Warm Springs, Georgia]]
16: ...vicepresident=[[John N. Garner]]<br>[[Henry A. Wallace]]<br>[[Harry S. Truman]]
18: ...nd privilege, he overcame a crippling illness to place himself at the head of the forces of reform. Hi...
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