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"The Oracle of Delphi was the most important shrine in all Greece, and in theory all Greeks respected its independence." People came to the oracle to have their futrues told.
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The Olympic games were a friendly cometition to honor the god Zeus.
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Sparta was unique among the Greek city-states because of the military, the wealth and food.
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"Credited with having established democracy in Athens, Cleisthenes' reforms at the end of the 6th Century BC made possible the Golden Age of Athenian civilization that would follow in the 5th Century BC."
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"These hymns were later adapted for choral processions in which participants would dress up in costumes and masks. Eventually, certain members of the chorus evolved to take special roles within the procession, but they were not yet actors in the way we would understand it."
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"For two days and nights, people who they had always considered their inferiors trapped Isagoras and his Spartan allies on the Acropolis. Unprepared and overwhelmed by the united opposition against them, they were forced to agree to a humiliating truce. The Spartans left Athens, while Isagoras' allies were executed. The would-be tyrant somehow managed to escape."
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"The stunning victory at Marathon gave the Athenians a new sense of their city's power and potential, but also led to overconfidence and a series of unnecessary confrontations with rival city-states."
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Not alot is known of the life of Homer, but as author of two of ancient Greece's most important literary works - the Iliad and the Odyssey - his importance to Greek culture can hardly be underestimated.
