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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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Hypatia - Great Woman Mathematician

Hypatia of Alexandria was a renowned mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who lived in the late 4th and early 5th centuries AD. She is considered one of the first notable female mathematicians in history and made significant contributions to the field during her lifetime. As the daughter of Theon, a mathematician and astronomer in Alexandria...

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Religion and Death

The ancient Greeks were a deeply religious people. They worshipped many gods whom they believed appeared in human form and yet were endowed with superhuman strength and ageless beauty. The Iliad and the Odyssey, our earliest surviving examples of Greek literature, record men's interactions with various gods and goddesses whose characters and appear...

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Greek Family

Most Greeks, like most other people throughout history, lived in families with a mother and a father and their children. Usually men got married when they were about twenty-five or thirty years old (as they do today), but women got married much younger, between twelve and sixteen years old....

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The Ancient Greek World.

Virtual gallery at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Also explore the other classical galleries in the Worlds Intertwined exhibit. [University of Pennsylvania]...

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Greek Vase Styles

The Greeks had around 20 different vase styles, each with its own function; each perfectly formed for its purpose, and with most of them exquisitely decorated. On its own, each and every kitchen, storage, funerary, cosmetic or wine vase was a unique work of art that must have embellished the everyday lives of the ordinary people of ancient Greece. ...

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The Greek Alphabet

The Greek alphabet came from the Phonecians around the year 900 B.C. When the Phonecians invented the alphabet there were 600 symbols. Those symbols took up too much room on the papyrus, so they narrowed it down to 22 symbols. The Greeks borrowed some of the symbols and then they made up some of their own. But the Phonecians, like other cultures, u...

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Ancient Greek Artifacts - British Museum

The Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities of the British Museum has one of the most comprehensive collections of antiquities from the Classical world, with over 100,000 objects. These mostly range in date from the beginning of the Greek Bronze Age (about 3200BC) to the reign of the Roman emperor Constantine in the 4th century AD, with some paga...

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