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 »
Thule, a land believed by the ancient Greeks and Romans to be the farthest north in Europe.
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 »Xerxes, (519?–465 B.C.), a king of Persia, also called Xerxes the Great. In the Biblical book of Esther he is called Ahasuerus.
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