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  • relief Map showing the most influential places of Ancient Greece, from Stone Age to the Roman Era.

    Map of Ancient Greece

    Map of Ancient Greece

    On this page: Map Index Alphabetical Index [opens in new window] Prefer the PDF maps when available. They offer cleaner images, they are searchable through your browser’s “find” function, and the text stays clear when you zoom in.…

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  • Antikythera Mechanism Gears Rendering Image

    Ancient Greece Timeline

    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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  • Antikythera Mechanism Gears Rendering Image

    Ancient Greece Timeline In Pictures

    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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  • Map of Greece in the Mediterranean. Loc Location map

    Ancient Greece Map Index

    Ancient Greece Map Index

    This is the index of the Ancient Greek Map [click to open in new tab] Place Map Location Index of the Ancient Greek Map [click to open in new tab] Name, Name = Name variation in same eraName…

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  • Scene from amphora depicting the blinding of Polyphemus.

    Greek Mythology

    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 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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  • Relief sculpture depicting Theseus and Antiope

    Theseus

    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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  • Athenian Trireme Scale Model

    Ships in Ancient Greece

    Ships in Ancient Greece

    Greece is surrounded by water and sprinkled with islands within a few hours sail, so it is natural that the people of Greece flourished for three thousand years by mastering the waves and establishing commercial networks and cities.…

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