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Ancient Greece

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Ancient Greece

Thargelia

History; Ancient Greece

Thargelia was an ancient Athenian festival with scapegoats.

Hesiod

History; Ancient Greece

Hesiod probably lived around 700 B.C., shortly after Homer, in a Boeotian village called Ascra. Hesiod's major works are Theogony and Works and Days.

Ostracism

History; Ancient Greece

Part of Athenian democracy was the institution of ostracism whereby the people could temporarily get rid of someone they feared.

hegemony

History; Ancient Greece

A hegemon is a leader and hegemony refers to leadership by one city over another.

First Macedonian War

History; Ancient Greece

The First Macedonian War (214 BC – 205 BC) was fought by Philip V of Macedon against , Rome, allied (after 211 BC) with the Aetolian League and Attalus I of Pergamon, contemporaneously with the ...

Battle of Ipsus

History; Ancient Greece

The Battle of Ipsus was a battle of the Fourth War Of The Diadochi between some of the Diadochi in 301 BC near the village of that name in Phrygia. Antigonus I Monophthalmus and his son Demetrius I ...

Battle of Crannon

History; Ancient Greece

The Battle of Crannon (322 BC), was the decisive battle of the Lamian War between the Macedonian forces of Antipater and Craterus and rebellious Greek forces led by the Athenians. acedonian victory, ...

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