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Oikos (Ancient Greek: οἶκος (pronunciation oi•kos [a]; plural: οἶκοι) was, in Ancient Greece, two related but distinct concepts: the family and the family's house. [b] Its meaning shifted even within texts. [1] The oikos was the basic unit of society in most Greek city-states. For regular Attic usage within the context of families ...
The Parthenon, a temple dedicated to Athena, located on the Acropolis in Athens, is one of the most representative symbols of the culture and sophistication of the ancient Greeks. Ancient Greece (Ancient Greek: Ἑλλάς, romanized:Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th ...
Pericles (/ ˈ p ɛr ɪ k l iː z /, Greek: Περικλῆς; c. 495 – 429 BC) was a Greek politician and general during the Golden Age of Athens.He was prominent and influential in Ancient Athenian politics, particularly between the Greco-Persian Wars and the Peloponnesian War, and was acclaimed by Thucydides, a contemporary historian, as "the first citizen of Athens". [1]
Family tree of the Greek gods. The following is a family tree of gods, goddesses, and other divine and semi-divine figures from Ancient Greek mythology and Ancient Greek religion. Chaos The Void. Tartarus The Abyss. Gaia The Earth.
Restored North Entrance with charging bull fresco of the Palace of Knossos (), with some Minoan colourful columns. The first great ancient Greek civilization were the Minoans, a Bronze Age Aegean civilization on Crete and other Aegean Islands, that flourished from c. 3000 BC to c. 1450 BC and, after a late period of decline, finally ended around 1100 BC during the early Greek Dark Ages.
The study of ancient Greek personal names is a branch of onomastics, the study of names, [1] and more specifically of anthroponomastics, the study of names of persons.There are hundreds of thousands and even millions of individuals whose Greek name are on record; they are thus an important resource for any general study of naming, as well as for the study of ancient Greece itself.
Socrates. Socrates (/ ˈsɒkrətiːz /, [2] Greek: Σωκράτης, translit. Sōkrátēs; c. 470 – 399 BC) was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy [3] and as among the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thought. An enigmatic figure, Socrates authored no texts and is known ...
Little is known of Lysander's early life. His year of birth is estimated at 454 BC. [1] Some ancient authors record that his mother was a helot or slave. [3] Lysander's father was Aristocritus, [4] who was a member of the Spartan Heracleidae; that is, he claimed descent from Heracles but was not a member of a royal family.