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- War (7002 bytes)
1: ... between [[state]]s, organisations, or relatively large groups of people, which is characterised by th...
8: ...arfare. Inventions created for warfare have also played an important role in others fields. The contin...
14: ... now believe that wars should only be fought as a last resort. Some, known as [[pacifists]], believe t...
16: ...is attitude was embraced by many societies from [[Sparta]] in [[Ancient Greece]] and the [[Ancient Rome|An...
24: ... which lead to war. The [[United Nations]] is the latest and most comprehensive attempt to, as stated ... - 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 ... - 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: ...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
9: Shortly before this battle the Spartan [[navy]], of which he had - 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
4: operations on land. When the [[Peloponnesian War]] broke out, Agi...
8: ...gnant, and when the Argives and their allies, in flagrant disregard of the truce, took [[Arcadian Orch...
10: ...eir [[perioeci]] (citizens of cities conquered by Sparta, who were given some privileges) and to allow - 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: ... succeeded by an unscrupulous trick in duping the Spartan ambassadors, and persuading the Athenians to con... - Alcman (1163 bytes)
1: ...e in the [[Alexandria]]n canon, flourished in the latter half of the [[7th century BC]].
3: ... Greek shows that he must have come very early to Sparta, where, after the close of the Messenian wars, th...
7: ...ound in 1855 on an [[Egypt]]ian [[papyrus]]; some later discovered hexameters are attributed to Alcman... - Amyntas III of Macedon (1278 bytes)
3: ...lowed the death of [[Archelaus II of Macedon|Archelaus II]], the patron of art and literature, and sho...
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: ...hens]] and Persia, offering to recognize Persian claims to the whole of [[Asia Minor]] and supremacy o...
5: ...act his efforts. Tiribazus, who was favourable to Sparta, threw Conon into prison, but [[Artaxerxes II]] (...
7: ... the [[Hellespont]] was such that [[Athens]] was glad to accept terms of peace (the '''Peace of Antalc...
9: #the whole of Asia Minor, with the islands of [[Clazomenae]] and [[Cyprus]], was recognized as subjec... - 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... - Socrates (7975 bytes)
2: ... BC|470]] – [[May 7]], [[399 BC]]) ([[Greek language|Greek]] {{polytonic|Σωκ&r...
5: ...f Amphipolis]]. We know from [[Symposium (Plato)|Plato's ''Symposium'']] that Socrates was decorated f...
7: ...scientific institute with his friend Chaerophon; Plato has Socrates tell us that he once spent all of ...
9: ...ian Empire]] to its decline after its defeat by [[Sparta]] and its allies in the [[Peloponnesian War]]. At...
11: ...o the version of his defense speech presented in Plato's ''Apology'', Socrates' life as the "gadfly" o... - Artemis (11271 bytes)
1: ...e.Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom ClipArt]]]
7: ...[Helios]] as the [[sun god]]. Artemis also assimilated [[Caryatis]] ([[Carya]]).
11: ...apua]] and in holy forests (such as [[Aricia]], [[Latium]]) Her high priest lived in Aricia; his posi...
13: ...ron]] and the festival of [[Artemis Orthia]] in [[Sparta]].
15: ...curred shortly after puberty), they were asked to lay all the accoutrements of virginity (toys, dolls,... - Ancient Olympic Games (9077 bytes)
8: ...ld be re-enacted every four years, while another claims that deity [[Zeus]] had instated the festival ...
10: ...im to organise games in honour of the gods. The [[Sparta]]n adversary of Iphitos then decided to stop the ...
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, 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....
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... - Athena Nike (1650 bytes)
1: ...g she would remain in Athens for success over the Spartans. - 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: ...he Lacedaemonians (commonly known as the [[Sparta|Spartans]]), who, as leaders of the [[Peloponnesian Leag...
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 ... - 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 Sea (2751 bytes)
1: .... Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
3: ...]). It is connected to the [[Marmara Sea]] and [[Black Sea]] by the [[Dardanelles]] and [[Bosporus]].
5: In ancient times there were various explanations for the name "Aegean." It was said to have...
7: ...the [[Hellenic Civilization]]. The Aegean Sea was later inhabited by [[Iran|Persia]]ns, [[Roman Republ...
9: ... [[G?ada]] . The current status of many smaller islands is a source of conflict between [[Turkey]] and...
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