Ostracism, political practice in ancient Athens
In ancient Athens, there was an unusual method of condemning and banishing important political persons: it was voted by the Athenians in the so-called...
Ruins of Troy
Unlike other ancient ruins along Turkey’s Aegean coast, some of which are both imposing and intimidating, Troy appears the outcast, without imposing temples or remnant pillars soaring...
Delphic Oracle and priestess Pythia
The Oracle of Delphi was a Greek center of shrine and predictions in Phocis (Central Greece) under the Mount Parnassus. For nearly a thousand years,...
Democracy of the Ancient Athens
Democracy in Ancient Greece is most frequently associated with Athens where a complex system allowed for broad political participation by the free male citizens...
Why did Sparta lose power over time ?
Since the Dorian invasions of Greece in the 10th century BC and the law giving of the possibly mythical Lycurgus, Sparta had been the...
Rich grave of a warrior or priest from Bronze age unearthed...
Last year (2015) the University of Cincinnaty Magazine (US) and The New York Times announced that international team of archaeologists led by Jack L. Davis...
Geographical regions of the Ancient Greece
Northern Greece – The main chain of the Pindus Mountains separated Northern Greece on two different climatic regions: Thessaly and Epirus.
Thessaly was the largest...
Historical sources for the study of Ancient Greece
Logographers wrote different contents of the first prose texts. According to the submission, the oldest logographer was Cadmus of Miletus, the most important was...
Aegean civilizations and Mycenaean culture
Regions of Balkan and Asia Minor that mourn the Aegean Sea and the Aegean islands of Crete were natural geographical entity - Egeida, Aegean...
Ancient Greek tribes
Hellenes were divided into tribes: the Ionians, the Aeolians and the Dorians while special mentioned were the Acheans. According to the myth, Hellen (the...
The letter of the ancient Greeks
From 1900th to 1600th BC pictogram or the hieroglyphic writing was used. Linear A has been used since 1700th to 1400th, and Linear B...
The oldest cities (poleis) of the ancient Greece
The ancient Greeks have never formed a common state in which all could join together. Their favorite form of government was the polis (city-state)....
