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The Life and Times of Hercules

Stories about the gods, called myths, were made up thousands of years ago. Was there a real Hercules, a man behind the stories?...

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Dionysis Images: Classical Myth

Dionysos is the god of wine, intoxication, and creative ecstasy. He is also known as Dionysus, Bacchus or Bakchos, and Liber (Roman)....

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Silver Decadrachm

ca. 400&endash;375 BC Syracuse 29-126-41 "Racing four-horse chariot with a flying Nike personifying Victory crowning the driver. The space below is filled with captured Punic arms. This spectacular coin may commemorate the victory of Dionysius I over the Carthaginian general Himilcon and the deliverance of Syracuse from its Punic siege in 396 B...

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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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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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Battle of Syme, 411 B.C

Peloponnesian War. In January 411 an unspecified number of Spartan ships defeated a squadron of Athenian vessels off the island of Syme in the south-eastern Aegean. Thucydides is the only source for this battle, apart from two possible allusions in Aristophanes. [Greece Ancient War Links]...

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The History of the Peloponnesian War

"The History of the Peloponnesian War" is a renowned historical account written by the ancient Greek historian Thucydides. It covers the events and conflicts of the Peloponnesian War, a protracted and devastating conflict between the city-states of Athens and Sparta, along with their respective allies, which took place in the 5th century BCE. Key P...

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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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The Peloponnesian War

The war between Athens and the Athenian empire versus Sparta, Thebes, Corinth, and other members of the Peloponnesian Confederacy 431 - 404 B.C.E. Large scale campaigns and heavy fighting took place from Sicily to the coast of Asia Minor and from the Hellespont and Thrace to Rhodes. It was the first war in history to be recorded by an eyewitness hi...

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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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