1700 Indo- European invasion of Greek peninsula 1400 Kingdom of Mycenae; Trojan War. 800-600 Rise of Greek city- states; Athens and Sparta become dominant. c.700 Homerian epics Iliad Odyssey; flowering of Greek architecture. 550 Cyrus the Great forms Persian Empire. 509 Beginnings of Roman republic. 470-430 Athens at its height: Pericles‚ Phidias‚ Sophocles‚ Socrates. 450 Twelve Tables of Law 431-404 Peloponnesian Wars. 359-336 Phillip II of Macedonia 338-323 Macedonian Empire‚ Alexander
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Today I shall be arguing and elaborating upon the thesis that the battle at Thermopylae was instrumental in insuring the victory at Plataea against the Persian army as it allowed for Greece to build up its army’s in preparation for the upcoming battle. I shall attempt to prove this statement by discussing various aspects of the battle of Thermopylae and the battle of Plataea such as battle tactics‚ size of the Greek and Persian armies and the overall intent and outcome of both battles. The primary
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An Aegean Bronze Age civilization based on the Greek island of Crete‚ the Minoans continue a pattern of growth and understanding of physical forms‚ through the process of rendering subjects related to daily life and mysticism. “Subject matter for fresco work was usually either scenes from nature‚ or scenes from court or religious life.” Greek artists developed methods used (discussed prior Fig. 4 and Fig. 6) in Egypt‚ and continued to advance these practices in order to better acclamate stylistically
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The Trojan War: Fact and Fiction From the beginning of time war has been a part of human life. One of the most well-known wars to date is the Trojan War. It is that it started when Paris of Troy stole Helen‚ the wife of the Spartan king‚ Menelaus. Surprisingly enough‚ this battle talked about in textbooks across the world is the same one historians question if it even happened. The only account of the war is The Iliad‚ written by the infamous Homer thousands of years ago. Although his work gives
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After winning a previous battle‚ both Agamemnon‚ king of Mycenae‚ and Achilles‚ the greatest Greek warrior‚ capture a girl for themselves and to bring home with them. However‚ the men of Achaea force Agamemnon to give Chryseis‚ the girl Agamemnon captured‚ back to her father after he asks for her back. As a result
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Different civilizations in different time era’s all had their defining moment when it came to art‚ especially the Greeks‚ but no society paved the way for art like the Aegean’s. Art has been an expression of one’s emotions for hundreds of years in various forms‚ but it is all an extension of the art found in Aegean history. Most people would have never thought that the Aegean’s would have played such a huge part in something so astonishing‚ especially since they are not a well-known civilization
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Essentially Ancient Greek culture had staggering gender inequalities that led to females being confined to the whims of males. Many tales demonstrate how differently married women were expected to act compared to men. When King Agamemnon departed from Mycenae to siege Troy he tricked his wife‚ Clytemnestra‚ into sacrificing their daughter to the gods. During the ten years Agamemnon was gone Clytemnestra plotted with her lover‚ Aegisthus‚ revenge. Once King Agamemnon returned‚ he was murdered by the duo
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THE BRONZE AGE The Bronze Age began in 2800 and lasted till 1050BC. This was almost 2000 years ago. This time period started to replace the use of stone and iron with bronze. The development of trading began with the Aegean and Mediterranean regions. Crete was responsible for major development during the Bronze Age. Their society was based on structures of extravagant places. The Minoans for the next 500 years had had the power in the Aegean but by 1450BC they were over run by the Mycenaean’s
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Tabitha Montgomery November 27 2011 Hum 2210 Professor J. Whitmarsh Aphrodite ’s Aphrodite was the Greek goddess of love‚ beauty‚ and pleasure she was also known as Venus in the Roman era. There are two stories on how Aphrodite’s was born. Some say she was the daughter of Zeus and Dione. The most known story is she was born when the father of the gods‚ Uranus was castrated by his son Cronus and he threw Uranus genitals into the ocean and from the sea it created bubbling sea foam and arose
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Chapter One Origins and Antiquity: Myths‚ Legends‚ and Epics The geographical origins of Western literature lie in areas as diverse as the Middle East‚ the Mediterranean‚ the central European forests‚ and the northwestern coasts‚ each of which produced a body of oral histories‚ myths‚ and legends‚ many of which were subsequently written down. They have been drawn on by writers since the emergence of a Western literature culture in ancient Greece. Stories have been used as entertainment‚ as origin
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