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 »

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. See more »

Democracy, a system of government that puts power in the hands of the people, is progressive enough to sound decidedly modern. But it's older than you'd expect. How did democracy come to be in the first place? See more »

Greece, Ancient. The civilization of the ancient Greeks grew up around the Aegean Sea and spread through the Greek mainland. See more »

Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C., a struggle between Athens and Sparta, and their respective allies. See more »

Hercules, Pillars of, a name given by the ancient Greeks to a pair of rocks at the Strait of Gibraltar, the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea. See more »

Trojan War, a war, in about the 12th century B.C., in which the Greeks besieged and destroyed the city of Troy, or Ilium, in Asia Minor. 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 »