For a bird’s-eye-view of Ancient Greece, start with the General Ancient Greek history section. Learn the basic facts and ideas that made Ancient Greece such a fascinating time and place.
Though the ancient Greeks get a lot of credit for building the foundation of today's civilization, many of their ideas came from the Kemites. Who were they, and what did they teach the Greeks? See more »
History buffs know that just because it's ancient history doesn't mean it no longer matters. The ancient civilizations of Egypt, Greece and Rome were home to splendor as well as great thinkers. Test how much you really know about these civilizations.
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Though the ancient Greeks get a lot of credit for building the foundation of today's civilization, many of their ideas came from the Kemites. Who were they, and what did they teach the Greeks?
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The first Olympics in ancient Greece were an arena to display athletic prowess for honor's sake. Think you're an expert in the ways of the Greek games? Grease up and try our quiz to find out if you're a gold medalist in ancient Olympic trivia.
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Greece, Ancient. The civilization of the ancient Greeks grew up around the Aegean Sea and spread through the Greek mainland.
See more »Achaeans, the earliest branch of the ancient Greeks. They were a Greek-speaking, warlike people who between 2000 and 1700 B.C.
See more »Aegean Civilization, the civilization of the people living around the Aegean Sea before the emergence of ancient Greece about the ninth century B.C.
See more »Aeoliansa branch of the ancient Greeks. Aeolian was one of the Greek dialects spoken by the Achaeans, who settled in Greece between 2000 and 1700 B.C.
See more »Aetolian League and Achaean League, two rival federations of cities in ancient Greece.
See more »Alexander (III) the Great (356–323 B.C.), a king of Macedonia and Greece. Alexander conquered the entire Persian Empire, from the Aegean Sea to India and around the Mediterranean to Egypt.
See more »Alexandrian Library, the largest and one of the most famous of the libraries of the ancient world.
See more »Amphictyonic Council, or Amphictyonic League, an association of neighboring city-states in ancient Greece.
See more »Antigonid Kingdom a Macedonian domain that existed from 276 to 168 B.C. It was ruled by the descendants of Antigonus, a general in the army of Alexander the Great.
See more »Archon, a high magistrate in ancient Athens. After the hereditary monarchy went into decline in the city-state, the king was forced, probably in the eighth century B.C., to share power with two officials chosen for life by the aristocrats; the king and these two officials were called archons.
See more »Areopagus , a high court of ancient Athens. It was named after its meeting place—Ares' Hill—west of the Acropolis.
See more »Salamis, Battle of, 480 B.C., the decisive naval battle of the Persian Wars, fought in the strait between the island of Salamis and the Greek mainland.
See more »Bucephalus, the prized war horse of Alexander the Great. When a youth, Alexander won great credit by breaking Bucephalus to ride.
See more »City-state, an independent, self-governing city and the territory dependent upon it and governed by it.
See more »Corinth, an ancient city of Greece. It stood near the Isthmus of Corinth between northern Greece and the Peloponnesus.
See more »Dorians, an ancient people who began to overrun Greece about 1100 B.C. The Dorian conquest destroyed the Mycenaean civilization in Greece, which had emerged sometime between 2000 B.C.
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