Ancient Greece

Antipater 397 - 319 BC

Macedonian general and supporter of Philip II of Macedon and Alexander the Great. Appointed by Alexander as regent in Macedonia during Alexander's invasion of Persia; left in control of Macedonia and Greece after Alexander's death. Antipater, a trusted lieutenant of Philip II and a supporter of Alexander the Great, held the positions of governor of...

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Trade

Economy, (Includes map of Mediterranean). When Mycenaean society broke up around 1100 BC, the commercial routes that had linked mainland Greece with the rest of the Mediterranean were severed. After a period of prolonged recovery, the Greeks began colonizing the shore regions of the Mediterranean and Black seas. This movement (ca. 750-550 BC) was p...

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Tour to Greece

Democritus, Univ. of Thrace [Greece] [Resources]...

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Ancient Anatolia

[Greece] [Resources]...

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Genealogical Guide to Greek Mythology

Carlos Parada, Brown Univ. [Greece] [Resources]...

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Trojan War Resources

a selection from Bulfinch's Mythology (Chapter XXVII, Part Two) which describes the Trojan War from the standpoint of Homer's Iliad. A list of resources is appended to the end of the document. [Greece] [Resources]...

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Greek Art

Archaic Art The Archaic sculptures are silent witnesses to the extraordinary development western society was about to undertake. The Kouros and Kore statues stand before a cultural revolution, all muscles tense, like a spring about to burst with energy into an extraordinary wave of classical thought. They stand with smiles frozen with meaning as if...

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The Ovid Project

Metamorphoses Images, Univ. of Vermont [Greece] [Images and Art Collections]...

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Sites for the Study of Ancient History

[General] [Prehistory] [Egypt] [Mesopotamia and Syria-Israel] [Greece and Rome - Art and Archaeology] [Greece and Rome - History and Literature] [Return to Syllabus] Ronald Legon University of Baltimore [Greece] [Resources]...

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Internet Resources: Ancient Greece

General Resources Cretan and Aegean Palace Civilizations Mycenae and Pre-Homeric Greece Greek History Greek Archaeology Greek Art Greek Architecture Greek Philosophy Greek Religion Greek Literature Greek Drama Greek Music Greek Science and Mathematics Greek Language Bibliographies On-line Courses with Resources Newsgroups Search th...

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