Outline of ancient Greece
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to ancient Greece:
Ancient Greece – period of Greek history lasting from the Greek Dark Ages ca. 1100 BC and the Dorian invasion, to 146 BC and the Roman conquest of Greece after the Battle of Corinth. It is generally considered to be the seminal culture which provided the foundation of Western civilization and shaped cultures throughout Southwest Asia and North Africa. Greek culture had a powerful influence on the Roman Empire, which carried a version of it to many parts of the Mediterranean region and Europe. The civilization of the ancient Greeks has been immensely influential on language, politics, educational systems, philosophy, science, and the arts, inspiring the Islamic Golden Age and the Western European Renaissance, and again resurgent during various neo-Classical revivals in 18th- and 19th-century Europe and the Americas.
What type of thing is ancient Greece?
Ancient Greece can be described as all of the following:
- Ancient civilization
- Ancient civilization from classical antiquity
- Bronze Age civilization
- Iron Age civilization
- Part of the Greco-Roman world
Geography of Ancient Greece
Regions of Ancient Greece
- Peloponnese
- Central Greece
- Thessaly
- Pherae
- Larissa
- Autonomous Subregion
- Magnesia
- Subregions within Thessaly
- Achaea Phthiotis
- Histiaeotis
- Pelasgiotis
- Perrhaebia
- Epirus
- Macedon
- Aegean Sea
- Crete
- Cyprus
- Ionian Sea
- Hellespont
- Sea of Marmara
- Bosphorus
- Asia Minor
- Magna Grecia
- Greek colonies
Government and politics of ancient Greece
Ancient Greek law
- Ancient Greek lawmakers
- Draco – first legislator of Athens in Ancient Greece. He replaced the prevailing system of oral law and blood feud by a written code to be enforced only by a court. Draco's written law became known for its harshness, with the adjective "draconian" referring to similarly unforgiving rules or laws.
- Draconian constitution – first written constitution of Athens. So that no one would be unaware of them, they were posted on wooden tablets (ἄξονες - axones), where they were preserved for almost two centuries, on steles of the shape of three-sided pyramids (κύρβεις - kyrbeis).
Military history of ancient Greece
Military history of ancient Greece
Military of ancient Greece
- Warfare in ancient Greece
- Homosexuality in the militaries of ancient Greece
- Ancient Greek military personal equipment
Military powers and alliances
- Ionian League (started mid-7th century BC)
- 1st Achaean League (formed in 5th century BC)
- Delian League (478-404 BCE)
- Spartan hegemony (431-371 BCE)
- Theban hegemony (371-362 BCE)
- League of Corinth (338-322 BCE)
- Peloponnesian League (6th to 4th century BC)
- Arcadian League (370 to 3rd century BCE)
- 2nd Achaean League (280-146 BCE)
- Aetolian League (4th to 3rd century BCE?)
Military conflicts
- Trojan War
- Lelantine War
- Messenian Wars
- First Sacred War
- Greco-Persian Wars – series of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire of Persia and city-states of the Hellenic world that started in 499 BC and lasted until 449 BC.
- First Peloponnesian War
- Sicilian Wars
- Peloponnesian War
- Battle of Arginusae
- Battle of Delium
- Battle of Chalcis
- Battle of Sybota
- Battle of Potidaea
- Battle of Naupactus (429 BC)
- Battle of Notium
- Battle of Syme
- Battle of Cynossema
- Battle of Pylos
- Battle of Sphacteria
- Battle of Amphipolis
- Battle of Mantinea (418 BC)
- Battle of Olpae
- Sicilian Expedition
- Battle of Syme
- Battle of Cyzicus
- Battle of Aegospotami
- Corinthian War
- Battle of Coronea (394 BC)
- Battle of Naxos
- Corinthian War
- Battle of Leuctra
- Battle of Cynoscephalae
- Battle of Mantinea (362 BC)
- March of the 10,000
- Battle of Crocus Field
- Foreign War
- Wars of Alexander the Great
- Lamian War
- Wars of the Diadochi
- Chremonidean War
- Battle of Sellasia
- Battle of Pydna
- Battle of Cynoscephalae
- Battle of Asculum
- Cretan War
- First Macedonian War
- Second Macedonian War
- Third Macedonian War
- Fourth Macedonian War
General history of ancient Greece
Ancient Greek history, by period
- Prehistoric Greek history
- History of ancient Greece (timeline)
Ancient Greek history, by region
- Ancient Athens
- Athenian democracy – democracy in the Greek city-state of Athens developed around the fifth century BC, making Athens one of the first known democracies in the world, comprising the city of Athens and the surrounding territory of Attica. It was a system of direct democracy, in which eligible citizens voted directly on legislation and executive bills.
- Solon (c. 638 – c. 558 BC)– Athenian statesman, lawmaker, and poet. Legislated against political, economic, and moral decline in archaic Athens. His reforms failed in the short term, yet he is often credited with having laid the foundations for Athenian democracy.[1][2][3][4]
- Cleisthenes (born around 570 BC). – father of Athenian democracy. He reformed the constitution of ancient Athens and set it on a democratic footing in 508/7 BC.
- Ephialtes (died 461 BC) – led the democratic revolution against the Athenian aristocracy, which exerted control through the Areopagus, the most powerful body in the state.[5] Ephialtes proposed a reduction of the Areopagus' powers, and the Ecclesia (the Athenian Assembly) adopted Ephialtes' proposal without opposition. This reform signaled the beginning of a new era of "radical democracy" for which Athens would become famous.
- Pericles – arguably the most prominent and influential Greek statesman. When Ephialtes was assassinated for overthrowing the elitist Council of the Aeropagus, his deputy Pericles stepped in. He was elected strategos (one of ten such posts) in 445 BCE, which he held continuously until his death in 429 BCE, always by election of the Athenian Assembly. The period during which he led Athens, roughly from 461 to 429 BC, is known as the "Age of Pericles".
- Ostracism – procedure under the Athenian democracy in which any citizen could be expelled from the city-state of Athens for ten years.
- Areopagus – council of elders of Athens, similar to the Roman Senate. Like the Senate, its membership was restricted to those who had held high public office, in this case that of Archon.[6] In 594 BC, the Areopagus agreed to hand over its functions to Solon for reform.
- Ecclesia – principal assembly of the democracy of ancient Athens during its "Golden Age" (480–404 BCE). It was the popular assembly, open to all male citizens with 2 years of military service. In 594 BC, Solon allowed all Athenian citizens to participate, regardless of class, even the thetes (manual laborers).
- Athenian democracy – democracy in the Greek city-state of Athens developed around the fifth century BC, making Athens one of the first known democracies in the world, comprising the city of Athens and the surrounding territory of Attica. It was a system of direct democracy, in which eligible citizens voted directly on legislation and executive bills.
- History of Sparta
Ancient Greek History, by subject
- See the rest of this outline
Works on ancient Greek history
Culture of ancient Greece
- Architecture of ancient Greece
- Calendar of ancient Greece
- Clothing in ancient Greece
- Coinage of ancient Greece
- Cuisine of ancient Greece
- Economy of ancient Greece
- Education in ancient Greece
- People in ancient Greece
- Sexuality in ancient Greece
- Slavery in ancient Greece
Art in ancient Greece
Literature in ancient Greece
- Writers
Philosophy in ancient Greece
Sport in ancient Greece
See also: History of sport § Ancient Greece
Sports
Equipment
Stadiums
Religion in ancient Greece
- Greek mythology
- Religious practices
- Amphidromia
- Animal sacrifice
- Ancient Greek funeral and burial practices
- Greek hero cult
- Hieros gamos in ancient Greece
- Festivals
- Ancient Greek religious titles (priests)
- Hellenistic religion
Language in ancient Greece
- Ancient Greek, by period
- Ancient Greek dialects
- Ancient Greek grammar
- Ancient Greek phonology
- Greek alphabet
- Greek diacritics
Science of ancient Greece
Technology of ancient Greece
- Agriculture in ancient Greece
- Clothing in ancient Greece
- Engineering of ancient Greece
- Medicine in ancient Greece
- Pottery of ancient Greece
- Units of measurement in ancient Greece
See also
References
- ↑ Stanton, G.R. Athenian Politics c800–500BC: A Sourcebook, Routledge, London (1990), p. 76.
- ↑ Andrews, A. Greek Society (Penguin 1967) 197
- ↑ E. Harris, A New Solution to the Riddle of the Seisachtheia, in 'The Development of the Polis in Archaic Greece', eds. L. Mitchell and P. Rhodes (Routledge 1997) 103
- ↑ Aristotle Politics 1273b 35–1274a 21.
- ↑ Fornara-Samons, Athens from Cleisthenes to Pericles, 24–25
- ↑ Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians §3
External links
- The Canadian Museum of Civilization—Greece Secrets of the Past
- Ancient Greece website from the British Museum
- Economic history of ancient Greece
- The Greek currency history
- Limenoscope, an ancient Greek ports database
- The Ancient Theatre Archive, Greek and Roman theatre architecture
- Illustrated Greek History—Dr. Janice Siegel, Department of Classics, Hampden-Sydney College, Virginia
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