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Ancient Greece

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Thebes

History; Ancient Greece

Ancient settlement in southeastern Boeotia, an important Mycenaean center and the legendary birthplace of Heracles. The city re-emerged in the 6th century BC and for much of its history was ...

Trojan War

History; Ancient Greece

Legendary war in which a massed force of Greeks attacked Troy after the abduction of Helen of Sparta by Paris of Troy. The Greeks eventually sacked the city after a ten-year siege. The war was a ...

Dorians

History; Ancient Greece

One of the tribes of Greeks whose foundation myths told of their arrival in the Peloponnese after the fall of Troy. Some archeologists and historians have dated this to about 1100 BC, but others ...

A region in the northwestern Peloponnese whose inhabitants were mentioned by Homer as fighting at Troy. They were not unified but shared common citizenship and coinage. Achaea formed a confederacy ...

Knossos

History; Ancient Greece

One of the oldest inhabited sites in Crete and, from 2000 BC, the site of the most impressive and sophisticated palace complex of the Minoan civilization. It was even designed to withstand ...

Phaistos

History; Ancient Greece

Minoan palace site on the south coast of Crete, important from 2000 BC until it was destroyed with the other Minoan palaces in about 1450 BC. It is famous for the Phaistos disk, whose circular ...

Kleisthenes

History; Ancient Greece

Athenian statesman who was responsible for an important program of constitutional reform in 508-507 BC. His program encouraged local democracy throughout Attica and the reorganization of citizens ...