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Note that there were a great number of Greek cities in the ancient world. In this list, a city is defined as a single population center. These were often referred to as poleis in the ancient world, these were autonomous city-states, although the list is not limited to poleis but includes also settlements that were not sovereign city-states ...
The Acropolis of Athens (Ancient Greek: ἡ Ἀκρόπολις τῶν Ἀθηνῶν, romanized: hē Akropolis tōn Athēnōn; Modern Greek: Ακρόπολη Αθηνών, romanized: Akrópoli Athinón) is an ancient citadel located on a rocky outcrop above the city of Athens, Greece, and contains the remains of several ancient buildings of great architectural and historical significance ...
The Temple of Apollo, also known as Apollonion, [ 1] ( Greek: Ἀπολλώνιον, romanized : Apollṓnion) was a major part of the Panhellenic religious sanctuary located in Central Greece at Delphi. The temple and sanctuary at large were dedicated to one of the major Greek deities, Apollo, the god of archery, music, light, prophecy, the ...
21200. Area code (s) 2751. Vehicle registration. AP. Argos ( / ˈɑːrɡɒs, - ɡəs /; Greek: Άργος [ˈarɣos]; Ancient and Katharevousa: Ἄργος [árɡos]) is a city and former municipality in Argolis, Peloponnese, Greece and is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, and one of the oldest in Europe. [ 2]
Pnyx. / 37.971667; 23.719444. The Pnyx ( / nɪks, pəˈnɪks /; Ancient Greek: Πνύξ [pnýks]; Greek: Πνύκα, Pnyka) is a hill or hillside in central Athens, the capital of Greece. Beginning as early as 507 BC ( Fifth-century Athens ), the Athenians gathered on the Pnyx to host their popular assemblies, thus making the hill one of the ...
Ilium or Ilion (Ancient Greek: Ἴλιον), also known as Troja (Τροΐα), [1] was a city of ancient Epirus. [2] It is mentioned in the Aeneid of Virgil as a foundation of Helenus after the Trojan War in the land of the Chaonia. [3] Its site is located near the modern village of Despotiko in Greece. [4] [5] The village was formerly known as ...
Greek underworld. In Greek mythology, the Asphodel Meadows or Asphodel Fields ( Ancient Greek: ἀσφοδελὸς λειμών, romanized : asphodelòs leimṓn) [ 1] was a section of the ancient Greek underworld where the majority of ordinary souls were sent to live after death. [ 2] It was one of the three main divisions of the underworld ...
c. 900 BC–1st century AD. Ancient Greek architecture came from the Greeks, or Hellenes, whose culture flourished on the Greek mainland, the Peloponnese, the Aegean Islands, and in colonies in Anatolia and Italy for a period from about 900 BC until the 1st century AD, with the earliest remaining architectural works dating from around 600 BC. [ 1]