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Women's Dress and Toilet Articles

Women's Dress and Toilet Articles Women's dress and toilet articles encompass a wide range of items that are essential for personal grooming and maintaining a polished appearance. From clothing to accessories, these items play a crucial role in defining a woman's style and enhancing her overall look. When it comes to clothing, women have a pletho...

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Greek Olympic Games

Once every four years, men from all over Greece came to compete in a great athletic festival in Elis, in western Greece (Women were not allowed to compete). This was called the Olympic games because the place was called Olympia. It was a religious festival to honor the Greek gods Zeus and Hera. We don't know when men first began celebrating the Oly...

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CLASSICAL GREEK SCULPTURE

Classical Greek Sculpture for Kids - Polykleitos, Phidias, and more....

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The Olympic Games in the Ancient Hellenic World

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The Ancient Greek Olympics

The Ancient Greek Olympics were a series of athletic competitions held every four years in Olympia, Greece, beginning in 776 BC. The games were dedicated to the Olympian gods and were a key part of ancient Greek culture and society. Athletes from all over Greece would compete in events such as running, discus throwing, javelin throwing, long jump,...

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The Greek World of MARY RENAULT

Tour of the Greek World...

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Thucydides and Herodotus

Thucydides and Herodotus are two prominent ancient Greek historians who made significant contributions to the field of historical writing. Thucydides, known as the "father of scientific history," was an Athenian historian and general whose work focused on the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta. He emphasized the importance of factual accu...

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Plato

Plato, an ancient Greek philosopher, was a student of Socrates and a teacher of Aristotle. He founded the Academy in Athens, one of the earliest institutions of higher learning in the Western world. Plato's philosophical works laid the foundation for Western philosophy and science. One of Plato's most famous works is "The Republic," where he discu...

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Didaskalia: Introduction to Greek Stagecraft

Didaskalia: Ancient Theater Today / University of Warwick /edited by Sallie Goetsch and C.W. Marshall. The tragedies and comedies of the fifth and fourth centuries BC which remain to us today were all written for performance in the Theater of Dionysus at Athens. The TDA was first dug out of the slope beneath the south side of the Acropolis in the l...

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Map of Hellenistic World, Cities & Empires, 240 B.C.E.

The Hellenistic period, which began after the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C.E., is marked by the spread of Greek culture throughout the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East. By 240 B.C.E., the map of the Hellenistic world was dotted with influential cities and vast empires, each contributing to the rich tapestry of this era. At the heart ...

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