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They appeared around the 8th century BC. C. The polis are one of the characteristics that best define Greek civilization because they represented the political, cultural and citizen center of Greek society.
Each of these city-states was considered a kind of separate and independent nation, but despite this autonomy and the fact that they fought to the death for their freedom and independence, they were all considered part of the same civilization. -
The first Olympic Games were the most important Panhellenic games and were held in honor of the God Zeus. They were held in Olympia, hence its name, the original idea was from King Oxilos in the year 1,100 BC. -
This was developed around the sixth century BC in the Greek city of Athens. Athens practiced a political system of laws and drafts of executive laws. Participation was free only to adult citizens and Athenian men.
Solon, Clísthenes and Ephialtas contributed to the development of Athenian democracy. Clísthenes broke the unlimited power of the nobility by organizing citizens into 10 groups based on where they lived, rather than their wealth. -
The Thermoplies is a famous passage in Greece between Thessaly and Locrida, and was the only place through which you could enter from the north to the south of Greece.
The Thermopylae Pass is mainly known for the Battle of Thermopylae fought by the Spartan king Leonidas in August 480 BC. Here 300 Spartans, 1000 Lacedaemonians, 2800 Peloponnesians, 700 Thespians and 400 Thebans gathered under the direction of Leonidas to fortify themselves from the Persian army of Xerxes. -
Alexander begins his campaign in Persia with the aim of liberating the Greek peoples subjected to the Persians. Darius III, discredited and defeated, fled, but was finally assassinated by one of his governors and Alexander emerged as the new “king of kings.” -
The death of Alexander the Great is a historical mystery of the first magnitude.
We know, thanks to the texts of the Greek historian Diodorus, that on June 2, 12 days before his death, Alexander participated in a banquet in Babylon. After a drunken night, he fell seriously ill. Diodorus says that Alexander suffered from high fever, chills, severe abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting. In a few days he was unable to walk or speak, until finally he could not avoid death. -
The Coliseum was inaugurated in AD 80, inaugurated by Emperor Titus.
Cassi Dió explains that more than 9,000 wild animals were killed during the inaugural games of the amphitheater. -
Attila was the king of the Western Huns during the first half of the fifth century. He built the greatest empire of his time. During his reign he was one of the most feared enemies of the Roman Empires of the West and the East: he invaded the Balkans twice, laying siege to Constantinople the second time, marched through Gaul, until who stopped him at the Battle of the Catalaunic Fields, and drove the emperor of the West, Valentinian III, from his capital of Ravenna in 452.