The Oxford History Of The Classical World

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Greece Greece: The History of the Archaic Period (By George Forrest) Map 1. Greece And The Aegean World The Emergence of the P ...

For most historians the characteristic and peculiar element in Greek political life has been the polis, the city-state, an insti ...

Lefkandi. The site lies on the shore of the Straits of Euboea, between Chalcis and Eretria, and must have been the focus of the ...

building over 45 metres long, with an external wooden colonnade. This is a striking demonstration of Lefkandi's wealth and indus ...

man; respectable Greeks grew things rather than sold them; on the land, not in the market-place, were found Greeks who formed go ...

years. Most of the Libyan cities were settled by 600 B.C., but further expansion to the west was contained by Phoenicians (in Ca ...

control of the state and of the wealth that could be gained thereby had lain with one aristocratic clan, the Bacchiadae. In 657 ...

expelled the Bacchiads by force and did not need a bodyguard. Earlier, in Sparta, the army and its structure was at the heart of ...

Access to major political and military office, the archonship, previously restricted by convention to a limited group of familie ...

The Assassination Of The Athenian Tyrant Hipparchus In 514 BC By Harmodius And Aristogeiton. This event was celebrated by the ne ...

major city, Argos, and a number of lesser cities, settlements, or tribal agglomerations. Against Argos they won, though in no de ...

ambition to occupy Greece, but they were there and had to be reckoned with. All Greek states we know of were divided about their ...

Bronze Helmet Dedicated At Olympia By Miltiades in the early fifth century B.C. The dedicator's name appears incised along the l ...

Greeks had distinguished between themselves and 'those who spoke other languages'; other civilized societies had done the same. ...

The Athenian Treasury At Delphi. The Greek states dedicated treasuries at the major national sanctuaries, to house rich offering ...

Persians on their way south and now wrecked as many more when Xerxes sent a squadron of 200 to encircle Euboea and catch the Gre ...

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(d) Four Early Greek Coins, (a) is of electrum, a metal alloy of gold and silver readily obtainable in western Asia Minor where ...

Homer (By Oliver Taplin) Preamble The early Greeks envisaged the world as encircled by the mighty freshwater river of Ocean, a ...