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was the king of Mycenae and leader of the Greek army in the Trojan War of Homer's Illiad. He is presented as a great warrior but selfish ruler, famously upsetting his invincible champion Achilles and so prolonging the war and suffering of his men.
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The first Games were planned in Athens, the capital of Greece. In Athens, 280 participants from 13 nations competed in 43 events.
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Response to the unjust interpretation and modification of oral law by Athenian aristocrats. This enactment of a rule of law was an early manifestation of Athenian democracy.
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commonly known as Darius the Great, was the third Persian King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire,
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Was the fourth King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire. He was the son and successor of Darius the Great and his mother was Atossa, a daughter of Cyrus the Great, the first Achaemenid
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A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.
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DescriptionPericles was a prominent and influential Greek statesman, orator and general of Athens during its golden age, specifically the time between the Persian and the Peloponnesian Wars.
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When Greeks in the Persian-controlled territory rose in the Ionian Revolt. Athens, and other Greek cities, sent aid, but were quickly forced to back down after defeat in 494 BCE.
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DescriptionThe Battle of Marathon took place during the first Persian invasion of Greece. The battle was the culmination of the first attempt by Persia, under King Darius I, to subjugate Greece
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Homer is the presumed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two hugely influential epic poems of ancient Greece. He is one of the greatest literary artists in the world.
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Instead of sending his fleet out to sea he instructed his men to dig a canal through Athos, which took three years to complete. This was because he feared his fleet sustaining damage should another storm arise
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was fought between an alliance of Greek city-states, led by King Leonidas I of Sparta, and the Achaemenid Empire of Xerxes I over the course of three days, during the second Persian invasion of Greece.
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The Parthenon was built by the architects Ictinus and Callicrates under the supervision of the sculptor Phidias.
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Fought by the Delian League led by Athens against the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta. Historians have traditionally divided the war into three phases.
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DescriptionPlato was an Athenian philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, founder of the Platonist school of thought, and the Academy,
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A forked stick with an elastic band fastened to the two prongs, used by children for shooting small stones; a slingshot.
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He was a scholar, teacher and a philosopher. His Socratic method laid the groundwork for western system of logic philosophy.
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The academy was founded by Plato. Aristotle studied there for twenty years before founding his own school, the Lyceum.
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DescriptionAristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece.
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Was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon and a member of the Argead dynasty.
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Between the Macedonians led by Philip II of Macedon and an alliance of some of the Greek city-states led by Athens and Thebes.
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Offensive and defensive alliance of all the Greek states except Sparta, organized in 337 BCE at Corinth under the leadership of Philip II of Macedon.
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Tyrant, Greek tyrannos, a cruel and oppressive ruler or, in ancient Greece, a ruler who seized power unconstitutionally or inherited such power
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Philip II, King of Macedonia conquered
Greece. He was soon assassinated and his 20 year old son took over the throne.
