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Mycenaean Greece is the Late Helladic Bronze Age civilization of Ancient Greece, and it formed the historical setting of the epics of Homer and most of Greek mythology and religion. The Mycenaean period takes its name from the archaeological site Mycenae in the northeastern Argolid , in the Peloponnesos of southern Greece.
438 Founding of the Bosporan Kingdom [10] 437 Newly founded Amphipolis annexes Eion; 437 Athens allies with Messapia; 436 Taulantii-Epidamos War; 435 Phidias, Greek sculptor, completes statue of Zeus at Elis, 1 of 7 wonders of the world. 434 Epidamos becomes a democracy; 434 Epidamos is annexed by Korinth; 434 Kerkyra allies with Taulantii and ...
Ancient Greece (Ancient Greek: Ἑλλάς, romanized: Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilisation, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity (c. 600 AD), that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and communities.
The earliest urban civilizations of Europe belong to the Bronze Age Minoans of Crete and Mycenaean Greece, which ended around the 11th century BC as Greece entered the Greek Dark Ages. [9] Ancient Greece was the civilization belonging to the period of Greek history lasting from the Archaic period of the 8th to 6th centuries BC to 146 BC and the ...
ca. 480–470 BC Bust of Homer, author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems which are the central works of ancient Greek literature. Art in ancient Greece. Death in ancient Greek art; Music of ancient Greece. Musical system of ancient Greece. Ancient Greek Musical Notation; Seikilos epitaph; Painting in ancient Greece; Pottery of ...
Athens is one of the oldest named cities in the world, having been continuously inhabited for perhaps 5,000 years. Situated in southern Europe, Athens became the leading city of ancient Greece in the first millennium BC, and its cultural achievements during the 5th century BC laid the foundations of Western civilization.
Classical antiquity, also known as the classical era, classical period, classical age, or simply antiquity, [1] is the period of cultural European history between the 8th century BC and the 5th century AD [note 1] comprising the interwoven civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome known together as the Greco-Roman world, centered on the Mediterranean Basin.
The adjective Hellenic derives from Hellenikos meaning "pertaining to Greece and Greeks". [12] [13] [14] The organization was the first time in history that the Greek city-states (with the notable exception of Sparta, which would join only later under Alexander's terms) would unify under a single political entity. [15]