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Homer was the man that wrote Iliad and Odyssey
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The first recorded Olympic Games were held at Olympia in the Greek city-state of Elis, and are held every 4 years
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The draconian law was created by king Draco for the Athenian
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The first Persian invasion of Greece, And ended with the decisive Athenian wining
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DescriptionThe second Persian invasion of Greece occurred during the Greco-Persian Wars, as King Xerxes I of Persia sought to conquer all of Greece
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Destroyed Partially on 26 September 1687
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Plato studied in Egypt for 13 years under the Horite priest Sechnuphis
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An ancient Greek war fought by the Delian League led by Athens against the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta.
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a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy
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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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DescriptionThe Academy was founded by Plato
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The battle of chaeronea was 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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Greek democracy created at Athens was direct, rather than representative: any adult male citizen over the age of 20 could take part, and it was a duty to do so
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DescriptionThe 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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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 was King of Spain, King of Portugal, King of Naples and Sicily.
