From around 1200 BC, the palace centres and outlying settlements of the Mycenaeans' highly organized culture began to be abandoned or destroyed, and by 1050 BC, the recognizable features of Mycenaean ...
Archaic Period (800 BC - 480 BC).776 Traditional date for the first historic Olympic games.757 The First Messenian War starts. (Date disputed by Jerome, Pausanias and Diodorus; this estimate is based ...
Ancient Greek monumental sculpture was composed almost entirely of marble or bronze; with cast bronze becoming the favoured medium for major works by the early 5th century. Both marble and bronze are ...
Main article: Byzantine musicEarliest known depiction of lyra in a Byzantine ivory casket. The Byzantine Church music has a strong influence on modern Greek music.The Byzantine music is also of major ...
Ancient Greece Main article: Ancient Greek architectureAncient Greek architecture is best known through its temples and theatres.Byzantine Greece Main article: Byzantine architectureByzantine architec ...
The idea of Central Asia as a distinct region of the world was introduced in 1843 by the geographer Alexander von Humboldt. The borders of Central Asia are subject to multiple definitions.The most lim ...
The Acropolis, also called Cecropia from its reputed founder, Cecrops, was a steep rock in the middle of the city, about 50 meters high, 350 meters long, and 150 meters wide; its sides were naturally ...
Rise to power (508–448 BC) Main articles: Ionian Revolt, Persian Wars and First Peloponnesian WarHippias - of the Peisistratid family - established a dictatorship in 514 BC, which proved very unpopul ...
Mycale was, in many ways, the beginning of a new phase in the conflict, in which the Greeks would go on the offensive against the Persians. The immediate result of the victory at Mycale was a second r ...
The Persian fleet next headed south down the coast of Attica, landing at the bay of Marathon, roughly 25 miles (40 km) from Athens Under the guidance of Miltiades, the general with the greatest experi ...
In the Greco-Persian wars both sides made use of spear-armed infantry and light missile troops. Greek armies placed the emphasis on heavier infantry, while Persian armies favoured lighter troop types. ...
Almost all the primary sources for the Greco-Persian Wars are Greek; there are no surviving historical accounts from the Persian side. By some distance, the main source for the Greco-Persian Wars is t ...
The end of the Peloponnesian War left Sparta the master of Greece, but the narrow outlook of the Spartan warrior elite did not suit them to this role. Within a few years the democratic party regained ...
From the perspective of Athenian culture in Classical Greece, the period generally referred to as the 5th century BC encroaches slightly on the 4th century BC. This century is essentially studied from ...
Main articles: Byzantine art and Byzantine literatureSee also: Byzantine music and Byzantine dressSurviving Byzantine art is mostly religious and with exceptions at certain periods is highly conventio ...
