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The ancient Olympics, held every four years, occurred during a religious festival honoring the Greek god Zeus.
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Darius I, commonly known as Darius the Great, was the third Persian King
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The word 'democracy' has its origins in the Greek language. A belief in shared power: based on a suspicion of concentrated power (whether by individuals, groups or governments).
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The first Persian invasion of Greece, during the Persian Wars
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The Battle of Marathon took place during the first Persian invasion of Greece. It was fought between the citizens of Athens, aided by Plataea, and a Persian force commanded by Datis and Artaphernes
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The second Persian invasion of Greece (480–479 BC) occurred during the Greco-Persian Wars
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The Battle of Thermopylae 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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DescriptionXerxes I, commonly known as Xerxes the Great, was the fourth King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire
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A well known structure
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The Peloponnesian War was an ancient Greek war fought by the Delian League led by Athens against the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta.
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Pericles 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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Plato 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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Slingshot type object
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Socrates was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy.
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Philip II of Macedon was the king of the kingdom of Macedon
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Alexander III of Macedon, commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon and a member of the Argead dynasty.
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The battle of chaeronea 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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The League of Corinth, also referred to as the Hellenic League, was a confederation of Greek states created by Philip II during the winter of 338 BC/337 BC after the Battle of Chaeronea and succeeded by Alexander the Great at 336 BC, to facilitate the use of military forces in the war of Greece against Persia.
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Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece.
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Homer was a famous poet, he wrote “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey”.
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In Greek mythology, Agamemnon was a king of Mycenae, the son, or grandson, of King Atreus and Queen Aerope of Mycenae, the brother of Menelaus, the husband of Clytemnestra and the father of Iphigenia, Electra or Laodike, Orestes and Chrysothemis.
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a written law code created by Draco in response to the unjust interpretation and modification of oral law by Athenian aristocrats.
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In ancient Greece, a tyrant was simply a person who ruled a city-state by themselves, but who lacked the traditional or constitutional authority of a king or elected leader.
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Greece's national academy, and the highest research establishment in the country.
