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Heracles and the Rulers of Greece

Heracles: The Twelve Labors of the Hero in Ancient Art and Literature [J. P. Adams' Greek Mythology class handouts.]...

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Bronze ´Piceno-Corinthian´ Helmet

ca. 550 BC Ascoli Piceno (ancient Asculum), Italy, Tomb of the Warrior MS 1534 This helmet originally carried a detachable horsehair crest. In perhaps a local modification by the Piceni, a tribe of central Italic people on the Adriatic coast northeast of Rome, the protective cheek and lower jaw pieces are formed from a single sheet of bronze. The n...

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Coinage in Ancient Greece

Economy (Univ. Penn.)...

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Pottery in the Ancient Greek World

Pottery provides the best archaeological evidence for the movements of the Greeks and the distribution of their trade around the Mediterranean and Black Sea basins. Central and northern Italian Etruscan cemeteries are particularly informative as their tombs have yielded thousands of Greek vases. It is difficult to estimate what percentage of these ...

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Nicias By Plutarch

"Nicias" by Plutarch is a biographical account of the life and career of Nicias, an Athenian statesman and military leader who lived during the 5th century BCE, a crucial period in ancient Greece. Plutarch, a renowned ancient historian and biographer, provides a detailed and insightful portrayal of Nicias, examining his upbringing, character, polit...

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Overview of archaic and classical Greek history

An Overview of Classical Greek History from Mycenae to Alexander. Thomas R. Martin [Greece Ancient War Links]...

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Peloponnesian War

Links [Greece Ancient War Links]...

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Myths & Legends

Quite exhaustive Myths and Mythology...

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Peloponnesian Wars

The Peloponnesian War began in 431 BC between the Athenian Empire (or The Delian League) and the Peloponnesian League which included Sparta and Corinth. The war was documented by Thucydides, an Athenian general and historian, in his work History of the Peloponnesian War. Most of the extant comedies of Aristophanes were written during this war, and ...

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Alexander the Great ...his first ever web site.

Alexander was born in 356 BC in Macedonia, the area around present day Thessaloniki in northern Greece. Though the Macedonians might have considered themselves part of the Greek cultural world, the other Greeks might have viewed them as half-barbarians. Alexander`s father, King Philip, was an energetic ruler who had started a systematic policy of e...

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