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- 4th-century BC disestablishments in Greece
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- 6th-century BC establishments in Greece
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Achaemenid Empire
The Achaemenid Empire or Achaemenian Empire, also known as the Persian Empire or First Persian Empire (𐎧𐏁𐏂), was an ancient Iranian empire founded by Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid dynasty in 550 BC.
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Acharnae
Acharnae or Acharnai (Ἀχαρναί) was a deme of ancient Athens.
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Acropolis of Athens
The Acropolis of Athens (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 most famous being the Parthenon.
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Aeschylus
Aeschylus (Αἰσχύλος; /524 – /455 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian often described as the father of tragedy.
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Alexander the Great
Alexander III of Macedon (Alexandros; 20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), most commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon.
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Anatolia
Anatolia (Anadolu), also known as Asia Minor, is a large peninsula or a region in Turkey, constituting most of its contemporary territory.
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Ancient Agora of Athens
The ancient Agora of Athens (also called the Classical Agora) is the best-known example of an ancient Greek agora, located to the northwest of the Acropolis and bounded on the south by the hill of the Areopagus and on the west by the hill known as the Agoraios Kolonos, also called Market Hill.
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Ancient drachma
In ancient Greece, the drachma (drachmḗ,; pl. drachmae or drachmas) was an ancient currency unit issued by many city-states during a period of ten centuries, from the Archaic period throughout the Classical period, the Hellenistic period up to the Roman period.
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Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece (Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity, that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and other territories.
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Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.
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Ancient Greek comedy
Ancient Greek comedy was one of the final three principal dramatic forms in the theatre of classical Greece (the others being tragedy and the satyr play).
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Ancient Greek crafts
Ancient Greek crafts (or the craftsmanship in Ancient Greece) was an important but largely undervalued, economic activity. Classical Athens and Ancient Greek crafts are ancient Athens.
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Ancient Greek philosophy
Ancient Greek philosophy arose in the 6th century BC.
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Ancient Greek religion
Religious practices in ancient Greece encompassed a collection of beliefs, rituals, and mythology, in the form of both popular public religion and cult practices.
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Ancient Rome
In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.
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Antipater
Antipater (Ἀντίπατρος|translit.
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Antisthenes
Antisthenes (Ἀντισθένης,; 446 366 BCE) was a Greek philosopher and a pupil of Socrates.
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Apollo
Apollo is one of the Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion and Greek and Roman mythology.
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Architecture
Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction.
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Archon basileus
Archon basileus (ἄρχων βασιλεύς árchōn basileús) was a Greek title, meaning "king magistrate": the term is derived from the words archon "magistrate" and basileus "king" or "sovereign".
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Areopagus
The Areopagus is a prominent rock outcropping located northwest of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece.
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Ares
Ares (Ἄρης, Árēs) is the Greek god of war and courage.
Argos, Peloponnese
Argos (Άργος; Ἄργος) 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. Classical Athens and Argos, Peloponnese are Greek city-states.
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Argyrocopeum
Argyrocopeum, also transliterated as Argyrocopeion or Argyrokopeion (ἀργυροκοπείον) was the place where money was coined in ancient Greece, especially minting with silver. Classical Athens and Argyrocopeum are ancient Athens.
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Aristoi
The Aristoi (Greek: ἄριστοι) was the label given to the noblemen in ancient Greek society, and in particular ancient Athens.
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Aristophanes
Aristophanes (Ἀριστοφάνης) was an Ancient Greek comic playwright from Athens and a poet of Old Attic Comedy.
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Aristotle
Aristotle (Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs; 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath.
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Assassination
Assassination is the willful killing, by a sudden, secret, or planned attack, of a personespecially if prominent or important.
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Athena
Athena or Athene, often given the epithet Pallas, is an ancient Greek goddess associated with wisdom, warfare, and handicraft who was later syncretized with the Roman goddess Minerva.
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Athena Promachos
The Athena Promachos (Ἀθηνᾶ Πρόμαχος, "Athena who fights in the front line") was a colossal bronze statue of Athena sculpted by Pheidias, which stood between the Propylaea and the Parthenon on the Acropolis of Athens.
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Athenian coup of 411 BC
The Athenian coup of 411 BC was the result of a revolution that took place during the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta.
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Athenian democracy
Athenian democracy developed around the 6th century BC in the Greek city-state (known as a polis) of Athens, comprising the city of Athens and the surrounding territory of Attica. Classical Athens and Athenian democracy are 6th-century BC establishments in Greece.
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Athenian military
The Athenian military was the old main force of Athens, one of the major city-states (poleis) of Ancient Greece.
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Athens
Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece.
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Attic Greek
Attic Greek is the Greek dialect of the ancient region of Attica, including the polis of Athens.
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Attica
Attica (Αττική, Ancient Greek Attikḗ or, or), or the Attic Peninsula, is a historical region that encompasses the entire Athens metropolitan area, which consists of the city of Athens, the capital of Greece and the core city of the metropolitan area, as well as its surrounding suburban cities and towns.
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Banausos
Banausos (Ancient Greek βάναυσος, plural βάναυσοι, banausoi) is a pejorative applied to the class of manual laborers or artisans in Ancient Greece.
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Battle of Artemisium
The Battle of Artemisium or Artemision was a series of naval engagements over three days during the second Persian invasion of Greece.
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Battle of Chaeronea (338 BC)
The Battle of Chaeronea was fought in 338 BC, near the city of Chaeronea in Boeotia, between Macedonia under Philip II and an alliance of city-states led by Athens and Thebes.
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Battle of Leuctra
The Battle of Leuctra (Λεῦκτρα) was fought on 6 July 371 BC between the Boeotians led by the Thebans, and the Spartans along with their allies amidst the post–Corinthian War conflict.
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Battle of Mantinea (362 BC)
The Battle of Mantinea was fought on 4 July 362 BC between the Thebans, led by Epaminondas and supported by the Arcadians, Argives, Messenians, Thessalians, and the Boeotian league against the Spartans, led by King Agesilaus II and supported by the Eleans, Athenians, Euboeans, and Mantineans.
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Battle of Marathon
The Battle of Marathon took place in 490 BC during the first Persian invasion of Greece.
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Battle of Salamis
The Battle of Salamis was a naval battle fought in 480 BC, between an alliance of Greek city-states under Themistocles, and the Achaemenid Empire under King Xerxes.
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Battle of Thermopylae
The Battle of Thermopylae (Greek) took place during the second Persian invasion of Greece.
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Boeotia
Boeotia, sometimes Latinized as Boiotia or Beotia (Βοιωτία; modern:; ancient) is one of the regional units of Greece.
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Boule (ancient Greece)
In cities of ancient Greece, the boule (βουλή;: boulai, βουλαί) was a council (βουλευταί, bouleutai) appointed to run daily affairs of the city.
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Bouleuterion
A bouleuterion (βουλευτήριον, bouleutērion), also translated as and was a building in ancient Greece which housed the council of citizens (βουλή, boulē) of a democratic city state.
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Cecrops I
Cecrops was a mythical king of Attica which derived from him its name Cecropia, having previously borne the name of Acte or Actice (from Actaeus).
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Cephissus (Athenian plain)
Cephissus (Κήφισσος; Κηφισός, Kifisos) is a river in the vicinity of Athens, Greece.
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Cimon
Cimon or Kimon (Kimōn Miltiadou Lakiadēs; – 450BC) was an Athenian strategos (general and admiral) and politician.
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City-state
A city-state is an independent sovereign city which serves as the center of political, economic, and cultural life over its contiguous territory.
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Classical antiquity
Classical antiquity, also known as the classical era, classical period, classical age, or simply antiquity, is the period of cultural European history between the 8th century BC and the 5th century AD comprising the interwoven civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome known together as the Greco-Roman world, centered on the Mediterranean Basin.
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Classical Greece
Classical Greece was a period of around 200 years (the 5th and 4th centuries BC) in Ancient Greece,The "Classical Age" is "the modern designation of the period from about 500 B.C. to the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C." (Thomas R. Martin, Ancient Greece, Yale University Press, 1996, p.
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Cleisthenes
Cleisthenes (Κλεισθένης), or Clisthenes, was an ancient Athenian lawgiver credited with reforming the constitution of ancient Athens and setting it on a democratic footing in 508 BC.
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Cleomenes I
Cleomenes I (Greek Κλεομένης; died c. 490 BC) was Agiad King of Sparta from c. 524 to c. 490 BC.
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Cleon
Cleon (Κλέων ΚλεαινέτουΚυδαθηναιεύς,; died 422 BC) was an Athenian general during the Peloponnesian War.
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Cleophon (politician)
Cleophon (Greek: Kλεoφῶν, Kleophōn; died 405 BC) was an Athenian politician and demagogue, who was very influential during the Peloponnesian War.
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Coele
Coele or Koile (Κοίλη or Κοιλή) was a deme of ancient Attica, originally of the phyle of Hippothontis, and between 307/6 BCE and 201/200 BCE of, sending three delegates to the Boule.
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Collytus
Collytus or Kollytos (Κολλυτός) was a deme of ancient Attica, located in the city of Athens.
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Command of the sea
Command of the sea (also called control of the sea or sea control) is a naval military concept regarding the strength of a particular navy to a specific naval area it controls.
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Conon
Conon (Κόνων) (before 443 BC –) was an Athenian general at the end of the Peloponnesian War, who led the Athenian naval forces when they were defeated by a Peloponnesian fleet in the crucial Battle of Aegospotami; later he contributed significantly to the restoration of Athens' political and military power.
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Corinth
Corinth (Kórinthos) is a municipality in Corinthia in Greece.
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Corinthian War
The Corinthian War (395–387 BC) was a conflict in ancient Greece which pitted Sparta against a coalition of city-states comprising Thebes, Athens, Corinth and Argos, backed by the Achaemenid Empire.
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Cradle of civilization
A cradle of civilization is a location and a culture where civilization was developed independent of other civilizations in other locations.
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Cyclopean masonry
Cyclopean masonry is a type of stonework found in Mycenaean architecture, built with massive limestone boulders, roughly fitted together with minimal clearance between adjacent stones and with clay mortar or no use of mortar.
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Cynicism (philosophy)
Cynicism (κυνισμός) is a school of thought in ancient Greek philosophy, originating in the Classical period and extending into the Hellenistic and Roman Imperial periods.
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Cynosarges
Cynosarges (Κυνόσαργες Kynosarges) was a famous temple of Heracles, public gymnasium, and surrounding grove located just outside the walls of Ancient Athens on the southern bank of the Ilissos river and near the Diomeian gate.
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Darius the Great
Darius I (𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹𐎺𐎢𐏁; Δαρεῖος; – 486 BCE), commonly known as Darius the Great, was a Persian ruler who served as the third King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire, reigning from 522 BCE until his death in 486 BCE.
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Delian League
The Delian League was a confederacy of Greek city-states, numbering between 150 and 330, founded in 478 BC under the leadership (hegemony) of Athens, whose purpose was to continue fighting the Persian Empire after the Greek victory in the Battle of Plataea at the end of the Second Persian invasion of Greece.
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Deme
In Ancient Greece, a deme or (δῆμος, plural: demoi, δήμοι) was a suburb or a subdivision of Athens and other city-states. Classical Athens and deme are ancient Athens.
Demetrius of Phalerum
Demetrius of Phalerum (also Demetrius of Phaleron or Demetrius Phalereus; Δημήτριος ὁ Φαληρεύς; c. 350 – c. 280 BC) was an Athenian orator originally from Phalerum, an ancient port of Athens.
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Democracy
Democracy (from dēmokratía, dēmos 'people' and kratos 'rule') is a system of government in which state power is vested in the people or the general population of a state.
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Diomea (Attica)
Diomea or Diomeia (Διόμεια) was a deme of ancient Attica, located in the city of Athens, both within and outside the walls of Themistocles, in interior portion included the eastern sector of the city, and the external portion contained the Cynosarges.
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Dipylon
The Dipylon (Δίπυλον, "Two-Gated") was the main gate in the city wall of Classical Athens.
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Ecclesia (ancient Greece)
The ecclesia or ekklesia (ἐκκλησία) was the assembly of the citizens in city-states of ancient Greece.
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Elefsina
Elefsina (Elefsína) or Eleusis (Eleusís) is a suburban city and municipality in Athens metropolitan area.
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Epaminondas
Epaminondas (Ἐπαμεινώνδας; 419/411–362 BC) was a Greek general and statesman of the 4th century BC who transformed the Ancient Greek city-state of Thebes, leading it out of Spartan subjugation into a pre-eminent position in Greek politics called the Theban Hegemony.
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Ephebic oath
The ephebic oath was an oath sworn by young men of Classical Athens, typically eighteen-year-old sons of Athenian citizens, upon induction into the military academy, the Ephebic College, graduation from which was required to attain status as citizens. Classical Athens and ephebic oath are ancient Athens.
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Ephebos
Ephebos (ἔφηβος, pl. epheboi; ἔφηβοι), latinized as ephebus (pl. ephebi) and anglicised as ephebe (pl. ephebes), is a term for a male adolescent in Ancient Greece.
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Ephialtes
Ephialtes (Ἐφιάλτης, Ephialtēs) was an ancient Athenian politician and an early leader of the democratic movement there.
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Episkopoi
Episkopoi (ἐπίσκοποι, sing. ἐπίσκοπος, episkopos, literally "overseer"), Latinized episcopus/episcopi, were inspectors who were sometimes sent by the Athenians to subject states.
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Eponymous archon
In ancient Greece the chief magistrate in various Greek city states was called eponymous archon (ἐπώνυμος ἄρχων, epōnymos archōn).
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Erechtheion
The Erechtheion (latinized as Erechtheum; Ἐρέχθειον, Ερέχθειο) or Temple of Athena Polias is an ancient Greek Ionic temple on the north side of the Acropolis, Athens, which was primarily dedicated to the goddess Athena.
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Erechtheus
Erechtheus (Ἐρεχθεύς) in Greek mythology was a king of Athens, the founder of the polis and, in his role as god, attached to Poseidon, as "Poseidon Erechtheus".
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Eridanos (Athens)
The Eridanos or Eridanus (Ἠριδανός) was a river in Athens mentioned in Greek mythology and historiography.
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Eupatridae
The Eupatridae (literally "good fathered", i.e. "offspring of noble fathers" or "the well-born") were the ancient nobility of the Greek region of Attica.
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Euripides
Euripides was a tragedian of classical Athens.
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Fifth-century Athens
Fifth-century Athens was the Greek city-state of Athens in the time from 480 to 404 BC.
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Geomori (Athens)
The Geomori or Geomoroi (γεωμόροι) were one of the three classes into which Theseus is said to have divided the inhabitants of Attica.
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Greco-Persian Wars
The Greco-Persian Wars (also often called the Persian Wars) were a series of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire and Greek city-states that started in 499 BC and lasted until 449 BC.
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Greece
Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe.
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Gymnasium (ancient Greece)
The gymnasium (gymnásion) in Ancient Greece functioned as a training facility for competitors in public games.
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Hadrian
Hadrian (Publius Aelius Hadrianus; 24 January 76 – 10 July 138) was Roman emperor from 117 to 138.
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Hegemony
Hegemony is the political, economic, and military predominance of one state over other states, either regional or global.
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Heracles
Heracles (glory/fame of Hera), born Alcaeus (Ἀλκαῖος, Alkaios) or Alcides (Ἀλκείδης, Alkeidēs), was a divine hero in Greek mythology, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, and the foster son of Amphitryon.
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Heroön
A heroön or heroon (plural heroa) (pl.), also latinized as heroum, is a shrine dedicated to an ancient Greek or Roman hero and used for the commemoration or cult worship of the hero.
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Herodotus
Herodotus (Ἡρόδοτος||; BC) was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus, part of the Persian Empire (now Bodrum, Turkey) and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy.
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Hipparchus (brother of Hippias)
Hipparchus (Ἵππαρχος||; died 514 BC) was a member of the ruling class of Athens and one of the sons of Pisistratus.
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Hippias (tyrant)
Hippias (Ἱππίας||; 490 BC) was the last tyrant of Athens, ruling from 527 to 510 BC.
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History
History (derived) is the systematic study and documentation of the human past.
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Ilisos
The Ilisos or Ilisus (Ιλισός) is a river in Athens, Greece.
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Ionia
Ionia was an ancient region on the western coast of Anatolia, to the south of present-day İzmir, Turkey.
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Ionian Revolt
The Ionian Revolt, and associated revolts in Aeolis, Doris, Cyprus and Caria, were military rebellions by several Greek regions of Asia Minor against Persian rule, lasting from 499 BC to 493 BC.
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Isagoras
Isagoras (Ἰσαγόρας), son of Tisander, was an Athenian aristocrat in the late 6th century BC.
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Kerameikos
Kerameikos also known by its Latinized form Ceramicus, is an area of Athens, Greece, located to the northwest of the Acropolis, which includes an extensive area both within and outside the ancient city walls, on both sides of the Dipylon Gate and by the banks of the Eridanos River.
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Lamian War
The Lamian War, or the Hellenic War, (323–322 BC) was an unsuccessful attempt by Athens and a large coalition of Greek states to end the hegemony of Macedonia over Greece just after the death of Alexander the Great.
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Lavrio
Lavrio, Lavrion or Laurium (Λαύριο; Λαύρειον (later Λαύριον); from Middle Ages until 1908: Εργαστήρια Ergastiria) is a town in southeastern part of Attica, Greece.
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League of Corinth
The League of Corinth, also referred to as the Hellenic League (koinòn tõn Hellḗnōn; or simply, the Héllēnes), was a federation of Greek states created by Philip IIDiodorus Siculus, Book 16, 89.
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Leonidas I
Leonidas I (Λεωνίδας) (born c. 540 BC; died 11 August 480 BC) was a king of the Greek city-state of Sparta, and the 17th of the Agiad line, a dynasty which claimed descent from the mythical demigod Heracles.
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Literature
Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially novels, plays, and poems.
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Liturgy (ancient Greece)
The liturgy (λειτουργία or λῃτουργία, leitourgia, from λαός / Laos, "the people" and the root ἔργο / ergon, "work") was in ancient Greece a public service established by the city-state whereby its richest members (whether citizens or resident aliens), more or less voluntarily, financed the State with their personal wealth.
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Long Walls
Although long walls were built at several locations in ancient Greece, notably Corinth and Megara, the term Long Walls (Μακρὰ Τείχη) generally refers to the walls that connected Athens' main city to its ports at Piraeus and Phaleron. Classical Athens and long Walls are ancient Athens.
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Lyceum
The lyceum is a category of educational institution defined within the education system of many countries, mainly in Europe.
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Lyceum (classical)
The Lyceum (Lykeion) was a temple in Athens dedicated to Apollo Lyceus ("Apollo the wolf-god").
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Macedonia (ancient kingdom)
Macedonia (Μακεδονία), also called Macedon, was an ancient kingdom on the periphery of Archaic and Classical Greece, which later became the dominant state of Hellenistic Greece.
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Melite (Attica)
Melite (Μελίτη) was a deme of ancient Attica, located in the city centre of Athens, within the walls erected by Themistocles and to the west of the Acropolis.
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Metic
In ancient Greece, a metic (Ancient Greek:,: from,, indicating change, and, 'dwelling') was a resident of Athens and some other cities who was a citizen of another polis.
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Metroon
A metroon was an ancient Greek temple dedicated to a mother goddess.
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Miltiades
Miltiades (Μιλτιάδης Κίμωνος; c. 550 – 489 BC), also known as Miltiades the Younger, was a Greek Athenian citizen known mostly for his role in the Battle of Marathon, as well as for his downfall afterwards.
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Mines of Laurion
The mines of Laurion (or Lavrion) are ancient mines located in southern Attica between Thoricus and Cape Sounion, approximately 50 kilometers south of the center Athens, in Greece.
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Modern Greek
Modern Greek (Νέα Ελληνικά, Néa Elliniká, or Κοινή Νεοελληνική Γλώσσα, Kiní Neoellinikí Glóssa), generally referred to by speakers simply as Greek (Ελληνικά, italic), refers collectively to the dialects of the Greek language spoken in the modern era, including the official standardized form of the language sometimes referred to as Standard Modern Greek.
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Mount Lycabettus
Mount Lycabettus, also known as Lycabettos, Lykabettos or Lykavittos (Λυκαβηττός), is a Cretaceous limestone hill in the Greek capital Athens.
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Odeon (building)
Odeon or Odeum (lit. "singing place") is the name for several ancient Greek and Roman buildings built for musical activities such as singing, musical shows, and poetry competitions.
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Odeon of Herodes Atticus
The Odeon of Herodes Atticus (Greek: Ωδείο ΗρώδουτουΑττικού; also called Herodeion or Herodion; Greek: Ηρώδειο) is a stone Roman theatre structure located on the southwest slope of the Acropolis of Athens, Greece.
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Owl of Athena
In Greek mythology, a little owl (Athene noctua) traditionally represents or accompanies Athena, the virgin goddess of wisdom, or Minerva, her syncretic incarnation in Roman mythology.
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Panathenaic Games
The Panathenaic Games (Παναθήναια) were held every four years in Athens in Ancient Greece from 566 BC to the 3rd century AD.
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Panathenaic Stadium
The Panathenaic Stadium (Panathinaïkó Stádio) or Kallimarmaro (Καλλιμάρμαρο,, lit. "beautiful marble") is a multi-purpose stadium in Athens, Greece.
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Pandroseion
The Pandroseion (pronounced: panδrosion, Greek: Πανδρόσειον) was a sanctuary dedicated to Pandrosus, one of the daughters of Cecrops I, the first king of Attica Greece, located on the Acropolis of Athens.
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Pandrosus
Pandrosos or Pandrosus (Ancient Greek: Πάνδροσος) was known in Greek myth as one of the three daughters of Kekrops, the first king of Athens, and Aglaurus, daughter of King Actaeus.
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Parthenon
The Parthenon (Παρθενώνας|Parthenónas|) is a former temple on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece, that was dedicated to the goddess Athena.
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Pelasgians
The name Pelasgians (Pelasgoí, singular: Πελασγός Pelasgós) was used by Classical Greek writers to refer either to the predecessors of the Greeks, or to all the inhabitants of Greece before the emergence of the Greeks.
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Peloponnesian League
The Peloponnesian League was an alliance of ancient Greek city-states, dominated by Sparta and centred on the Peloponnese, which lasted from c.550 to 366 BC. Classical Athens and Peloponnesian League are 6th-century BC establishments in Greece.
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Peloponnesian War
The Peloponnesian War (translit) (431–404 BC) was an ancient Greek war fought between Athens and Sparta and their respective allies for the hegemony of the Greek world.
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Pericles
Pericles (Περικλῆς; – 429 BC) was a Greek politician and general during the Golden Age of Athens.
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Phalerum
Phalerum or Phaleron () was a port of Ancient Athens, 5 km southwest of the Acropolis of Athens, on a bay of the Saronic Gulf. Classical Athens and Phalerum are ancient Athens.
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Phidias
Phidias or Pheidias (Φειδίας, Pheidias) was an Ancient Greek sculptor, painter, and architect, active in the 5th century BC.
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Philip II of Macedon
Philip II of Macedon (Φίλιππος; 382 BC – October 336 BC) was the king (basileus) of the ancient kingdom of Macedonia from 359 BC until his death in 336 BC.
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Philosophy
Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, value, mind, and language.
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Phyle
Phyle (phulē,; pl. phylai, φυλαί; derived from Greek φύεσθαι, phyesthai) is an ancient Greek term for tribe or clan.
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Phyle Campaign
The Phyle Campaign (404-403 BC) was the civil war that resulted from the Spartan imposition of a narrow oligarchy on Athens (see Thirty Tyrants) and resulted in the restoration of Athenian democracy.
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Piraeus
Piraeus (Πειραιάς; Πειραιεύς; Ancient:, Katharevousa) is a port city within the Athens-Piraeus urban area, in the Attica region of Greece.
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Pisistratus
Pisistratus (also spelled Peisistratus or Peisistratos; Πεισίστρατος; – 527 BC) was a politician in ancient Athens, ruling as tyrant in the late 560s, the early 550s and from 546 BC until his death.
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Plato
Plato (Greek: Πλάτων), born Aristocles (Ἀριστοκλῆς; – 348 BC), was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms.
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Platonic Academy
The Academy (Akadēmía), variously known as Plato's Academy, the Platonic Academy, and the Academic School, was founded at Athens by Plato circa 387 BC. Classical Athens and Platonic Academy are ancient Athens.
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Plutocracy
A plutocracy or plutarchy is a society that is ruled or controlled by people of great wealth or income.
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Pnyx
The Pnyx (Πνύξ; Πνύκα, Pnyka) is a hill or hillside in central Athens, the capital of Greece.
Polis
Polis (πόλις), plural poleis (πόλεις), means ‘city’ in ancient Greek. Classical Athens and Polis are Greek city-states.
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Political satire
Political satire is a type of satire that specializes in gaining entertainment from politics.
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Politics
Politics is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status.
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Polygnotus
Polygnotus (Πολύγνωτος Polygnotos) was an ancient Greek painter from the middle of the 5th century BC.
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Propylaea
In ancient Greek architecture, a propylaion, propylaeon or, in its Latinized form, propylaeum—often used in the plural forms propylaia or propylaea (Greek: προπύλαια)—is a monumental gateway.
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Prytaneion
A prytaneion (Πρυτανεῖον, prytanēum) was seat of the prytaneis (executive), and so the seat of government in ancient Greece.
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Prytaneis
The prytaneis (πρυτάνεις; sing.: πρύτανις prytanis) were the executives of the boule of ancient Athens.
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Public opinion
Public opinion, or popular opinion, is the collective opinion on a specific topic or voting intention relevant to society.
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Pythia
Pythia (Πυθία) was the name of the high priestess of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi.
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Sacred Gate
The Sacred Gate (Ἱερὰ Πύλη, Hiera Pyle) was a gate in the city wall of Classical Athens, in the modern neighbourhood of Kerameikos.
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Scambonidae
Scambonidae or Skambonidai (Σκαμβωνίδαι) was a deme of ancient Attica, located in the city of Athens.
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Sculpture
Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions.
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Second Athenian League
The Second Athenian League was a maritime confederation of Greek city-states that existed from 378 to 355 BC under the leadership (hegemony) of Athens.
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Seisachtheia
Seisachtheia (from σείειν seiein, to shake, and ἄχθος achthos, burden, i.e. the relief of burdens) was a set of laws instituted by the Athenian lawmaker Solon (c. 638 BC–558 BC) in order to rectify the widespread serfdom and slavery that had run rampant in Athens by the 6th century BCE, by debt relief.
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Simonides of Ceos
Simonides of Ceos (Σιμωνίδης ὁ Κεῖος; c. 556 – 468 BC) was a Greek lyric poet, born in Ioulis on Ceos.
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Socrates
Socrates (– 399 BC) was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy and as among the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thought.
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Solonian constitution
The Solonian constitution was created by Solon in the early 6th century BC.
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Sophocles
Sophocles (497/496 – winter 406/405 BC)Sommerstein (2002), p. 41.
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Sortition
In governance, sortition (also known as selection by lottery, selection by lot, allotment, demarchy, stochocracy, aleatoric democracy, democratic lottery, and lottocracy) is the selection of public officials or jurors using a random representative sample.
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Sparta
Sparta was a prominent city-state in Laconia in ancient Greece. Classical Athens and Sparta are Greek city-states.
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Sphodrias
Sphodrias (Σφοδρίας) (d. 371 BC) was a Spartan general during the Spartan Hegemony over Greece.
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Stadion (unit)
The stadion (plural stadia, στάδιον; latinized as stadium), also anglicized as stade, was an ancient Greek unit of length, consisting of 600 Ancient Greek feet (podes).
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Stoa
A stoa (plural, stoas,"stoa", Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Ed., 1989 stoai, or stoae), in ancient Greek architecture, is a covered walkway or portico, commonly for public use.
Stoa Basileios
Stoa Basileios (στοὰ βασίλειος), meaning Royal Stoa, was a Doric stoa in the northwestern corner of the Athenian Agora, which was built in the 6th century BC, substantially altered in the 5th century BC, and then carefully preserved until the mid-second century AD.
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Stoa of Zeus
The Stoa of Zeus at Athens, was a two-aisled stoa located in the northwest corner of the Ancient Agora of Athens.
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Stoa Poikile
The Stoa Poikile or Painted Portico was a Doric stoa (a covered walkway or portico) erected around 460 BC on the north side of the Ancient Agora of Athens.
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Strategos
Strategos, plural strategoi, Latinized strategus, (στρατηγός, pl.; Doric Greek: στραταγός, stratagos; meaning "army leader") is used in Greek to mean military general.
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Temple of Ares
The Temple of Ares was a Doric hexastyle peripteral temple dedicated to Ares, located in the northern part of the Ancient Agora of Athens.
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Temple of Athena Nike
The Temple of Athena Nike (Greek: Ναός Αθηνάς Νίκης, Naós Athinás Níkis) is a temple on the Acropolis of Athens, dedicated to the goddesses Athena and Nike.
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Temple of Hephaestus
The Temple of Hephaestus or Hephaisteion (also "Hephesteum" or "Hephaesteum"; Ἡφαιστεῖον, Ναός Ηφαίστου, and formerly called in error the Theseion or "Theseum"; Θησεῖον, Θησείο), is a well-preserved Greek temple dedicated to Hephaestus; it remains standing largely intact today.
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Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens
The Temple of Olympian Zeus (Ναός τουΟλυμπίουΔιός), also known as the Olympieion or Columns of the Olympian Zeus, is a former colossal temple at the centre of the Greek capital, Athens. Classical Athens and temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens are 6th-century BC establishments in Greece.
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Theatre of ancient Greece
A theatrical culture flourished in ancient Greece from 700 BC.
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Theatre of Dionysus
The Theatre of Dionysus (or Theatre of Dionysos, Θέατρο τουΔιονύσου) is an ancient Greek theatre in Athens.
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Thebes, Greece
Thebes (Θήβα, Thíva; Θῆβαι, Thêbai.) is a city in Boeotia, Central Greece, and is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. Classical Athens and Thebes, Greece are Greek city-states.
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Themistocles
Themistocles (Θεμιστοκλῆς) was an Athenian politician and general.
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Thirty Tyrants
The Thirty Tyrants (οἱ τριάκοντα τύραννοι, hoi triákonta týrannoi) were an oligarchy that briefly ruled Athens from 405 BC to 404 BC.
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Thrasybulus
Thrasybulus (Θρασύβουλος; 440 – 388 BC) was an Athenian general and democratic leader.
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Thucydides
Thucydides (Θουκυδίδης||; BC) was an Athenian historian and general.
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Trierarchy
A trierarchy (trierarchia) was a type of obligation called a liturgy, a debt similar to a tax on the very wealthy in Ancient Athens.
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Trittys
The trittyes (τριττύες trittúes), singular trittys (τριττύς trittús) were part of the organizational structure that divided the population in ancient Attica, and is commonly thought to have been established by the reforms of Cleisthenes in 508 BC.
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Western culture
Western culture, also known as Western civilization, European civilization, Occidental culture, or Western society, includes the diverse heritages of social norms, ethical values, traditional customs, belief systems, political systems, artifacts and technologies of the Western world.
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Women in classical Athens
The study of the lives of women in classical Athens has been a significant part of classical scholarship since the 1970s. Classical Athens and women in classical Athens are ancient Athens.
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Xenophon
Xenophon of Athens (Ξενοφῶν||; probably 355 or 354 BC) was a Greek military leader, philosopher, and historian, born in Athens.
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Xerxes I
Xerxes I (– August 465 BC), commonly known as Xerxes the Great, was a Persian ruler who served as the fourth King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire, reigning from 486 BC until his assassination in 465 BC.
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See also
322 BC
- 322 BC
- Battle of Amorgos
- Battle of Crannon
- Battle of Melitaea
- Battle of the Echinades (322 BC)
- Classical Athens
4th-century BC disestablishments in Greece
- Ancient Corinth
- Argead dynasty
- Classical Athens
- Helike
- Rhapsode
- Scythian archers
- Spartan hegemony
508 BC
- 508 BC
- Classical Athens
6th-century BC establishments in Greece
- Athenian democracy
- Classical Athens
- Heraean Games
- Himation
- Nemean Games
- Peloponnesian League
- Pythian Games
- Temple of Aphaia
- Temple of Artemis, Corfu
- Temple of Hera, Mon Repos
- Temple of Hera, Olympia
- Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens
- Tomb of Menecrates
Ancient Athens
- Achaemenid destruction of Athens
- Anaphlystus
- Ancient Athenians
- Ancient Greek crafts
- Argyrocopeum
- Asylum (antiquity)
- Athenian Greek-Phoenician inscriptions
- Athenian coinage decree
- Athenians Project
- Attic calendar
- Attic numerals
- Attic talent
- Bema
- Classical Athens
- Crioa (Attica)
- Deme
- Dikastes
- Ephebic oath
- Epikleros
- Eroeadae (Antiochis)
- Euergetism
- Land reform in Athens
- Long Walls
- Mapping Ancient Athens
- Mesogeia
- Moria (tree)
- Munichia
- Pallene (Attica)
- Pentecontaetia
- Phalerum
- Piraeus Apollo
- Platonic Academy
- Roman Athens
- Semachidae
- Women in classical Athens
- Zea Harbour Project
References
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