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- Ancient Greece (23806 bytes)
2: ...]-speaking world in ancient times. It refers not only to the territory of the present [[Greece|Greek s...
15: ...ges|dark age]]" from which no primary texts, and only scant archaeological evidence, survive. Secondar...
50: ...Athens enrolled all the island states and some mainland allies into an alliance, called the [[Delian L...
54: [[Image:pericles.jpg|thumb|200px|Pericles]]
56: ...rival. The leading statesman of this period was [[Pericles]], who used the tribute paid by the members of th... - Alcibiades (7778 bytes)
5: He was a near relative of [[Pericles]], who, after the death of Cleinias at the [[Batt...
22: ...[[Herma|hermai]], and Alcibiades was accused not only of being the originator of the crime, but also o...
26: ...n his absence and his property confiscated, he openly joined the Spartans, and persuaded them to send ... - Anaxagoras (6622 bytes)
9: [[Pericles]] learned to love and admire him and the poet [[E...
15: ...metal, larger than the [[Peloponnesus]]; the heavenly bodies were masses of stone torn from the earth ...
16: ...not tolerate such explanation, and the enemies of Pericles used the superstitions of their countrymen as a m...
18: ...[[Medism]]), and it required all the eloquence of Pericles to secure his release.
30: ...ork of arrangement, the segregation of like from unlike and the summation of the omoiomere into - William Shakespeare (28915 bytes)
6: ...ly impressive in light of the fact that he lived only 52 years.
14: ... and, perhaps appropriately for a playwright commonly considered to be [[England]]'s greatest, it is a...
35: ...er, Belott sued his father-in-law for delivering only part of the dowry. Shakespeare was called to tes...
41: ...of some, he took a neutral position, making sure only that his own income from the land was protected....
63: ...n an expensively produced folio in [[1623]] (the only precedent being [[Ben Jonson]]'s ''Workes'' of [... - Parthenon (12682 bytes)
9: The Parthenon was built at the initiative of [[Pericles]], the leading Athenian politician of the 5th cen...
17: [[image:ac.parthenon4.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Only a few sculptures remain on the Parthenon.]]
19: ...es both internally and externally. These survive only in part, but there are good descriptions of most...
27: ...igion for close to a thousand years. It was certainly still intact in the 4th century AD, by which tim...
50: ...some scholars have argued that the Parthenon was only ''used'' as a treasury. While this opinion was f... - Acropolis, Athens (7462 bytes)
9: ...poleis in Greece, the Acropolis of Athens is commonly known as "the Acropolis" without qualification. ...
11: ... cliffs on three sides. It is accessible by foot only to the west, where it is linked by a low ridge t...
18: ...or temples were rebuilt under the leadership of [[Pericles]] during the [[Golden Age]] of Athens (460-430 BC...
20: ...onstruction of southern and northern walls, and [[Pericles]] entrusted the building of the [[Parthenon]] to ... - Peloponnesian War (15884 bytes)
5: ... allowed it to challenge the Lacedaemonians (commonly known as the [[Sparta|Spartans]]), who, as leade...
13: ...Piraeus]]. The Spartans also occupied Attica for only a few months at a time; in the tradition of earl...
15: ...one quarter of the Athenian population, including Pericles and his sons.
17: ...f Pericles, the Athenians turned somewhat against Pericles' conservative, defensive strategy and to a more a...
49: ...de some money and 100 ships that were to be used only as a last resort. - Greco-Persian Wars (5983 bytes)
15: Around [[449 BC|449/448]], with the support of [[Pericles]], [[Callias]] negotiated the [[Peace of Callias]...
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