Ancient Greek Colonization
Greeks have moved from their home land at different times and established settlements. Most of Greek settlements were established in the 8th, 7th and...
Spartan Society
Southeastern branch of Peloponnese ending with peninsulas of Malea and Tainaron was the ancient Laconia. Its most productive part was the valley between the...
Spartan system of government
According to the legend, from period of the king Lycurgus all existing Spartan laws were grounded. Lycurgus had conceived also political institutions, established after...
Ancient Athens – early politics and government
Attica peninsula, which raised steeply from the Aegean Sea, in the far eastern branch of central Greece. Attica had a field, which provided a...
Draco and Solon era in Athens (621-593. B.C)
DRACO- Athenians entrusted Thesmothet Draco in 621 BC to write laws. Dracon was the oldest legislator of Athens. Before Dracon law, trials in Athens,...
Peisistratos and Cleisthenes era in Athens (561-508. B.C)
Peisistratos (Pisistratus)- after the departure of Solon from Athens, the political struggle was continued. For the government in Athens fought three parties: the party...
The Greco-Persian Wars (First Persian invasion of Greece 492-490 B.C)
Persian emperor Darius I 513 BC. went to Europe. He crossed the Bosporus and invaded Thrace. He then headed north across the Danube and...
The Greco-Persian Wars (Second Persian invasion of Greece 480-479 BC)
Darius died in 486 BC and was succeeded by his son Xerxes, who had suppressed the rebellion in Egypt and moved to Greece. The...
Athens pentecontaetia
It was a fifty-year period between the Greco-Persian and Peloponnesian wars. In this period, the Athenians have gained dominance in the Aegean Sea, economically...
Peloponnesian War (431-404 B.C)
In 431 BC began the war between Athens and the Peloponnesian League cities. On the side of Athens were fighting members of Delian-Attic Alliance...
Spartan hegemony (404-371 B.C) after the Peloponnesian War
After the spartan king Lysander defeated Athenian fleet at the naval Battle of Aegospotami in 405 BC, the Athens finally lost the Peloponnesian War. Sparta became...
Theban hegemony over Greece (371-362 BC)
In Boeotia (region of the central Greece in ancient times known as a large crop area), dozen city-states were established. The most oldest and...
