Hipparchus or Hipparch (Greek: ?ππαρχο?; died 514 BCE) was a member of the ruling class of Athens. He was one of the sons of Peisistratos.He was said by some Greek authors to have been the tyr ...
Pisistratus was a distant relative of Solon from northern Attica who had made a name of himself by capturing the port of Nisaea nearby Megara by creating a successful coup in 564 BC. Pisistratus was b ...
Hippias of Athens (Greek: ?ππ?α? ? ?θηνα?ο?) was one of the sons of Peisistratus, and was tyrant of Athens in the 6th century BC.Hippias succeeded Peisistratus in 527 BC. His brother Hi ...
While the Greeks cities in Sicily bickered and prospered for 70 years after Himera, Carthage had conquered the northern fertile half of modern day Tunisia, and strengthened and founded new colonies in ...
The Phoenicians had planted trading posts all over the coast of Sicily after 900 BC, but had never penetrated far inland. They had traded with the Elymian, Sicani and Siculi communities and had ultima ...
The then-small band of desperados came across the walled Greek settlement of Messana (now Messina). Messana was built on a strategic location on the north-eastern tip of Sicily on the strait between S ...
The Punic religion was based on that of their Phoenician forefathers, who worshiped Baal-hamon and Melqart but merged Phoenician ideas with Numidian deities and some Greek and Egyptian, such as Apollo ...
Syracuse and its surrounding area have been inhabited since ancient times, as shown by the findings in the villages of Stentinello, Ognina, Plemmirio, Matrensa, Cozzo Pantano and Thapsos, which alread ...
After the division of the Roman Empire, Anatolia became part of the East Roman, or Byzantine Empire. Anatolia was one of the first places where Christianity spread, so that by the 4th century AD, west ...
The Anatolian peninsula, also called Asia Minor, is bounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, the Aegean Sea to the west, and the Sea of Marmara to the northwest, whic ...
The term Mezzogiorno first came into use in the 18th century and is an Italian rendition of meridies (Latin for 'south', because of the sun's position at midday in the Northern Hemisphere). The term w ...
Main article: Greek colonies ("apoikiai")In the 8th and 7th centuries BC, for various reasons, including demographic crisis (famine, overcrowding, etc.), the search for new commercial outlets and port ...
In his poems, Solon portrays Athens as being under threat from the unrestrained greed and arrogance of its citizens. Even the earth (Gaia), the mighty mother of the gods, had been enslaved. The visibl ...
Solon was born in Athens around 638 B.C.His family was distinguished in Attica as they belonged to a noble or Eupatrid clan although only possessing moderate wealth. Solon's father probably was Execes ...
During the 39th Olympiad, in 622 or 621 BC, Draco established the legal code with which he is identified.Little is known about his life. He may have belonged to the Greek nobility of the Attica, with ...
