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Romulus became angry and killed Remus. With Remus dead, Romulus continued to work on his city. He officially founded the city on April 21, 753 BC, making himself king, and naming it Rome after himself.
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The Roman Kingdom, also referred to as the Roman monarchy, or the regal period of ancient Rome, was the earliest period of Roman history, when the city and its territory were ruled by kings.
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The Iliad tells the story of the Greek struggle to rescue Helen, a Greek queen, from her Trojan captors. The Odyssey takes the fall of the city of Troy as its starting point and crafts a new epic around the struggle of one of those Greek warriors, the hero Odysseus.
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The armies of the two cities followed Tarquin to battle but were defeated by the Roman army at the Battle of Silva Arsia. The consul Valerius collected the spoils of the routed Etruscans, and returned to Rome to celebrate a triumph on 1 March 509 BC.
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The Roman Republic was the era of classical Roman civilization beginning with the overthrow of the Roman Kingdom, traditionally dated to 509 BC, and ending in 27 BC with the establishment of the Roman Empire.
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Modified and expanded over the centuries, it is the oldest Greek theatre and is the site where some of the most famous Greek plays from antiquity were first performed.
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a series of wars fought by Greek states and Persia over a period of almost half a century. The fighting was most intense during two invasions that Persia launched against mainland Greece between 490 and 479.
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The Battle of Marathon took place in 490 BC, 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 first Persian invasion of Greece, during the Persian Wars, began in 492 BC, and ended with the decisive Athenian victory at the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC.
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The Battle of Thermopylae: Spartans v. Persians. The battle of Thermopylae was the first between the Persians and Greeks during the Persian invasion of 480-479 BC.
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At the Battle of Plataea, the Greek infantry inflicted a severe defeat on the Persians, and destroyed the remnants of the Persian navy at the Battle of Mycale. With this double defeat, the invasion was ended, and Persian power in the Aegean severely dented.
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... caused by the victory of the Persian Empire, the Greeks made stunning accomplishments in art, architecture, literature, philosophy, and representative democracy in Athens.
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... an alliance of Greek city-states led by Athens and formed to liberate eastern Greek cities from Persian rule and as a defence to possible revenge attacks from Persia following the Greek victories at Marathon, Salamis, and Plataea in the early 5th century BCE
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Modern historians question some particulars of the story recounted in Livy and elsewhere but usually accept Cincinnatus as a historical figure who served as suffect consul in 460 BC and as dictator in 458 BC
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an ancient Greek war fought by the Delian League led by Athens against the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta. Athens forced to surrender, Sparta won.
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Oedipus Rex, also known by its Greek title, Oedipus Tyrannus, or Oedipus the King, is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed around 429 BC.
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Philip II of Macedon was the king of the kingdom of Macedon from 359 BC until his assassination in 336 BC. He was a military genius.
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Alexander III of Macedon, commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon. He is Phillip II's son.
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The First Punic War between Rome and Carthage began over the disagreement about who would control the Sicilian city of Messana. This war ended with a Roman victory.
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The Second Punic War (218-201 B.C.E.) between Rome and Carthage was another disagreement between land, but this time it was over the city of Saguntum. Carthage claimed victory with their successful leader, Hannibal.
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Antony, Octavian, and Lepidus were the three rulers in the Second Triumvirate. Antony committed suicide and Lepidus was forced to retire, leaving Octavian as the sole ruler.
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The Roman peace following the actions around Julius Caeser and his violent death.
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