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Battle of Marathon

The Battle of Marathon was a decisive victory of the Athenian-Plataean army over the Persians in the first Persian invasion of Greece. The battle took place in 490 BC on the Marathon plain, a narrow stretch of land between the mountains and the sea, about 26 miles (42 km) northeast of Athens. The Persian army was led by Datis and Artaphernes, and n...

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The Persian Wars

Like the Trojan War, the Persian Wars were a defining moment in Greek history. The Athenians, who would dominate Greece culturally and politically through the fifth century BC and through part of the fourth, regarded the wars against Persia as their greatest and most characteristic moment. For all their importance, though, the Persian Wars began in...

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Military Duty

Duty to the state and to the gods. Military duty in ancient Greece was perceived and practiced by citizens as an important component of civic duty as well as piety to the gods. The causes of war were usually political , naturally imbued with pious issues, and were also instigated by breaches in good faith between city-states. The citizen of ancient...

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Ancient Greece: The Archaic period, 800-500 BC

Article. During the Greek Dark Ages, the Greeks lived in small tribal units; some of these small tribes were sedentary and agricultural and some were certainly nomadic. They had abandoned their cities between 1200 and 1100 BC for reasons that remain shrouded in mystery; the Greeks believed that a cataclysmic and ferocious invasion of northern Greek...

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The Atrium: For Devotees of Ancient Greece & Rome

The Atrium :: Portal to the Worlds of Ancient Greece and Rome...

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Visiting Sparta

If you have just arrived in town, I suggest visiting the archaeological museum before you walk to the remains of the acropolis. As Thucydides mentioned, there is not an overwhelming amount of architectural remains on the site, but some of the finest pieces are now on display at the museum, and you will probably have a better idea of the local Spart...

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The Peloponnesian War

Ancient sources | Thucydides | The war in general | Particular points | Inscriptions | Reviews | Bibliographies | Discussions [Ancient Greece]...

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Greek Art and Architecture

Art and Architecture in Ancient Greece....

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Mr. Dowling's Ancient Greece Page

The civilization of ancient Greece flowered more than 2500 years ago but it influences the way we live today. Greece is a peninsula in southeastern Europe. The people of the region attempted to explain the world through the laws of nature. They made important discoveries in science. They developed democracy, where people govern themselves rather th...

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The History of Plumbing - Greece

Until Philip of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great, rampaged through and destroyed the city in 432 B.C., Olynthus was a rich and flourishing metropolis, its people enjoying the luxury of the latest plumbing innovation-bathtubs. Excavations at Olynthus, in northern Greece, attest to tiled bathrooms and self-draining tubs. Several of the tubs hav...

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