Ancient Greek Civilization

court and existed largely for the purpose of alerting the Babylonian king to potential dangers allegedly foretold ...

satrap, perhaps understandably, preferred dealing with individual rulers rather than with councils or assemblie ...

began in 499 BC. Aristagoras was himself tyrant of Miletus, but he stepped down in that year and encouraged ...

that they did not put to death. The Persian Wars: Marathon The end of the Ionian Revolt did not mean the end of ...

be of any assistance to the Athenians. The battle of Marathon had already been fought and lost – by the Pers ...

Figure 36 Attic red-figure amphora, showing a hoplite spearing a Persian warrior who holds a bow and a sword; ...

event in other contexts as well. That it is derived from a fictionalized embellishment of an historic ...

Athenian nor the Aeginetan navy asserting clear dominance. In 483, the Athenians experienced a stroke of g ...

Figure 38 The Olympias, a full-scale reconstruction of an ancient trireme, built in 1985–7 to test the prop ...

narrow path between the mountains and the sea. (Since antiquity the shoreline has retreated a considerable di ...

“You may be sure that the ships of the Persians would have been victorious if it had simply been ...

What is it that makes the theories of Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes “philosophical”? Why is it that ...

Cyrus Cylinder US Tour 2013 (cyruscylinder2013.com, accessed March 29, 2016) is a web-site produced by ...

7 SETTING THE STAGE FOR DEMOCRACY The Development of Spartan Oligarchy The Development of Democracy in Athens: Solon Ot ...

Persian Wars many Greeks encountered at close quarters the “barbarians” (as the Greeks called all people whos ...

Hippodamus, a citizen of Miletus who is often considered the father of urban planning. It is not certain that ...

instrumental in the eventual creation of democracy in Greece). For, while it is true that all the ...

nearly half the area of the Peloponnese. During this time, Spartan citizenship was withheld from the inha ...

requirement for full citizen rights as an adult. Not until the age of 30 could they set up households on thei ...

was appointed to mediate between the opposing forces and to formulate laws that would bring about stability. ...