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- War (7002 bytes)
1: ... is contrasted with [[peace]], which is usually defined as the absence of war.
6: ...y states and empire in [[Mesopotamia]] became the first to employ [[standing army|standing armies]]. O...
8: ...fare have also played an important role in others fields. The continued advance of technology has led ...
14: ... be fought as a last resort. Some, known as [[pacifists]], believe that war is inherently immoral and ...
16: ...is attitude was embraced by many societies from [[Sparta]] in [[Ancient Greece]] and the [[Ancient Rome|An... - Ancient Greece (23806 bytes)
4: There are no fixed or universally agreed dates for the beginning ...
6: ...ek period was taken to begin with the date of the first [[Olympic Games]] in [[776 BC]], but most hist...
24: ... [[Aegean]] coast of [[Asia Minor]] was colonised first, followed by [[Cyprus]] and the coasts of [[Th...
28: ...formal practice of [[pederasty]], in an effort to find a permanent solution to the problem of overpopu...
32: ... landowners, who formed a warrior [[aristocracy]] fighting frequent petty inter-city wars over land. B... - Agesilaus II (5597 bytes)
1: ...ess was largely due to [[Lysander]], who hoped to find in him a willing tool for the furtherance of hi...
3: ...f sailing from Aulis he attempted to offer a sacrifice, as [[Agamemnon]] had done before the [[Trojan]...
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
8: ...3]], on the suggestion of [[Alcibiades]], he fortified [[Decelea]] in Attica, where he remained direct...
10: ...eir [[perioeci]] (citizens of cities conquered by Sparta, who were given some privileges) and to allow
11: ...ns to take part in the [[Olympic Games]] and sacrifices. He fell ill on his return from [[Delphi]], w... - Alcibiades (7778 bytes)
19: ... succeeded by an unscrupulous trick in duping the Spartan ambassadors, and persuading the Athenians to con...
25: ...e escaped on the journey home and made his way to Sparta.
26: ...nd his property confiscated, he openly joined the Spartans, and persuaded them to send [[Gylippus]] to ass...
28: ...in a few months he had lost the confidence of the Spartans, and at the instigation of [[Agis II]], whose p...
30: ...o adopt the negative policy of leaving Athens and Sparta to wear themselves out by their mutual struggles. - Alcman (1163 bytes)
1: ...ic [[lyric]] [[poetry]], to whom was assigned the first place among the nine lyric poets of Greece in ...
3: ... Greek shows that he must have come very early to Sparta, where, after the close of the Messenian wars, th...
7: ... of Asiatic sensuousness seem out of place amidst Spartan simplicity. The fragments are scanty, the most c... - Amyntas III of Macedon (1278 bytes)
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.
5: ...act his efforts. Tiribazus, who was favourable to Sparta, threw Conon into prison, but [[Artaxerxes II]] (...
12: ...favour with Artaxerxes, until the annihilation of Spartan supremacy agfter the [[Battle of Leuctra]] dimin...
14: A final mission to Persia, probably in [[367 BC|367]],... - Pyrrhus of Epirus (7425 bytes)
1: ...;υρρος'' - "the color of fire", "red-blonde", Latin ''Pyrrhus'') - the Moloss...
29: ..., an old woman watching from a rooftop threw a roofing tile which stunned him, allowing an Argosian so...
48: ...| '''[[Kings of Macedon|King of Macedon]]'''<br>''First Reign''<br>''with [[Lysimachus]]'' - Socrates (7975 bytes)
5: ...ons of Alcibiades, Socrates refused any sort of official recognition and instead encouraged the decora...
7: ...l us that he once spent all of his time on scientific research, but gave up on it when he came to see ...
9: ...of Athens. According to Dr Will Beldam he was the first person to question everything and everyone, an...
11: ...bout their knowledge of good, beauty, and virtue; finding that they knew nothing yet believed they kne...
27: ...mning me. For if you kill me, you will not easily find another such person at all, even if to say in a... - Artemis (11271 bytes)
7: ...e [[moon goddess]] to complement her twin's identification with and supplantation of [[Helios]] as the...
13: ...ron]] and the festival of [[Artemis Orthia]] in [[Sparta]].
41: ...Hera to let her go. Either way, Artemis was born first and then assisted with the birth of Apollo. A...
78: ...as taken to [[Crimea]] to prepare others for sacrifice to Artemis.
86: ...nceived [[Lacedaemon]], the mythical founder of [[Sparta]]. - Ancient Olympic Games (9077 bytes)
10: ...im to organise games in honour of the gods. The [[Sparta]]n adversary of Iphitos then decided to stop the ...
21: ...Domini|AD]] and BC. Thus, by that chronology, the first Olympiad would have taken place in 919 BC.
31: ...cord of an Elean attack during the [[Pentathlon]] final of the Games themselves, as the Pisans were ag...
33: In [[12 BC]] [[Herod the Great]] gave financial support to the Games to enable its future ...
37: Finally, in [[394|AD 394]] the Olympic Games - one o... - Zeus (17267 bytes)
25: ...modes of ritual were held in common as well: sacrificing a white animal over a raised altar, for insta...
37: ... clan would gather on the mountain to make a sacrifice every eight years to Zeus Lykaios, and a single...
40: ... by contrast, usually received white victims sacrificed upon raised altars.
42: ...pus outside of [[Thebes, Greece|Thebes]], and the Spartans even had a shrine to ''Zeus [[Agamemnon]]''.
53: ...ian War]]. Zeus Ammon was especially favored at [[Sparta]], where a temple to him existed by the time of t... - Acropolis, Athens (7462 bytes)
9: ...f the legendary [[serpent]]-man, [[Cecrops]], the first Athenian king.
13: ...dary entrance, reachable through a stair of about fifteen steps carved in stone. This secondary entran...
16: ...s defeated by a popular revolt supported by the [[Sparta]]ns, the walls were demolished. On the same spot,...
20: ...used by the [[Peloponnesian War]], the temple was finished in the time of [[Nicias]]' peace, between [...
22: ...eft side, decorated by [[Mys]] with images of the fight between the [[Centaur]]s and the [[Lapiths]]. ... - Athena Nike (1650 bytes)
1: ...g she would remain in Athens for success over the Spartans. - Peloponnesian War (15884 bytes)
1: ...and the [[Peloponnesian League]] which included [[Sparta]] and [[Corinth, Greece|Corinth]]. The war was do...
5: ...he Lacedaemonians (commonly known as the [[Sparta|Spartans]]), who, as leaders of the [[Peloponnesian Leag...
7: ...economic sanctions against [[Megara]], an ally of Sparta. These sanctions, known as the [[Megarian decree]...
11: ...s. Thus, the two powers were relatively unable to fight decisive battles.
13: ...to go home to take care of the harvest. Moreover, Spartan slaves, known as [[helots]], needed to be kept u... - Greco-Persian Wars (5983 bytes)
3: ...China to eastern Europe. In 513 BC Darius for the first time conquered [[Thrace]] and [[Macedonia]] . ...
5: ...ks. [[Athens]] sent twenty ships and [[Eretria]] five, and the fleet helped spread rebellion all alon...
7: ...ner)|Phidippides]] got the message for help to [[Sparta]] in record time, but in the end the Athenians an...
9: .... At Thermopylae, King [[Leonidas I|Leonidas]] of Sparta and his 300 soldiers, as well as [[Demophilus]] a...
11: ... Also in this year a Greek fleet commanded by the Spartan king [[Leotychides]] destroyed the remaining Per... - Mycenaean Greece (6175 bytes)
10: ..., and some of the nobility underwent [[mummy|mummification]].
41: The ''LHI pottery'' is known from the fill of the [[shaft graves]] of [[Lerna]] and the se...
49: .... There is material from Asine, Athens (wells), [[Sparta]] (Menelaion), [[Nichoria]] and the 'Atreus Bothr...
51: ...ded into two subphases by E. French, based on the finds from Mycenae and the West wall at Tiryns.<br>
54: ...cenae and of [[Lefkandi]] in Euboia yielded stratified material that allowed the subdivision of the LH... - Aegean Sea (2751 bytes)
7: ...nese]]. Later arose the city-states of Athens and Sparta among many others that constituted the [[Hellenic...
9: ...s, but navigation through the sea is generally difficult. Many of the islands are [[volcano|volcanic]]...
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