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Ancient Greece Maps

Maps on this page: The complete Ancient Greece map contains over 1400 places, each hand-placed after verification with trusted sources (list in the bibliography and the map index). Older maps are replaced regularly with newer versions which contain…
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Ancient Greece Maps Legend and Design Notes

Index and Sources The complete Ancient Greece map contains over 1400 places, each hand-crafted and cross-checked. A general list of sources can be found in the bibliography, while the map index (περιεχόμενα) contains place-specific sources. Base Map 1:10,000,000…
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Ancient Greece Timeline

Petralona scull(Dating estimates vary widely from 700000 to 160000 years before present) Paleolithic Period(2.5 million – 10000 BCE) Apidima Cave scull fragment is the earliest example of modern humans (early Homo sapiens) found outside Africa 210000 years ago…
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Ancient Greece Timeline In Pictures

This is a slideshow that includes significant objects from each historical period of Ancient Greece, starting in the Mesolithic era, and ending in Byzantine times. Click on an image to enter the slideroom.
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Greek Mythology

The ancient Greek spiritual beliefs, religion, and oral tradition are all reflected and formulated through rich myths and legends that besides entertainment provided an articulation of Greek civilization’s moral fiber, as it evolved over the centuries. Above all,…
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Daedalus and Icarus

Daedalus Dædalus [Δαίδαλος], a descendant of Erechtheus, was an Athenian architect, sculptor, and mechanician. He was the first {212} to introduce the art of sculpture in its higher development, for before his time statues were merely rude representations,…
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Ion

Ion was the son of Crëusa (the beauteous daughter of Erechtheus, king of Athens) and the sun-god Phoebus-Apollo, to whom she was united without the knowledge of her father. Fearing the anger of Erechtheus, Crëusa placed her new-born…
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Atalanta

Atalanta was distinguished for her beauty and courage, as well as for her swift-footed. She was nursed by a she-bear, and at last found by some hunters, who reared her and named her Atalanta. Though often wooed, she…
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Theseus

Theseus (Θησεύς) Aegeus, king of Athens, being twice married, and having no children, was so desirous of an heir to his throne that he made a pilgrimage to Delphi in order to consult the oracle. But the response…
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Ships in Ancient Greece

Greece is surrounded by water and sprinkled with islands within a few hours sail one from the other. Naturally, its people flourished for three thousand years by mastering the waves and establishing commercial networks and cities. The Greek’s…
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