Tag: Greece

From the Hellenic Sanhedrin, Philip had the war against Persia deliberated, taking the Persian intervention in Europe in defense of Perinth as a pretext; and, as a prelude to a major offensive, he sent a first unit of troops to Asia Minor. Perhaps this new enterprise had aroused some discontent in Macedonia. There was no […]

According to Vaultedwatches, the fate of the Panhellenic league fell at Chaeronea, where the Macedonians won a decisive victory (338) due to the excellence of their infantry and the Thessalian cavalry they had at their disposal, to the perfected armament of their phalanx equipped with long spears (sarisse), devised based on the experiences made by […]

According to Thenailmythology, the conditions of Greece could not fail to appear very painful at the time; full as it was of dissension, of struggles in which its forces were consumed, without the three major hegemonies having been smashed one after the other, noting the possibility of a renewed harmony, and least of all of […]

To carry out the social revolution in Sparta, Cleomenes had had to secure the support of the army, starting the war against the Achaean league, for a question of borders with Megalopolis. The war, though with varying success, had on the whole been advantageous and glorious for Sparta. The Achaean league, well organized politically, was […]

Perhaps this was the occasion for the expansion of the republican movement in northern Greece. When Alexander, the son of Pyrrhus, died, in Epirus the Eacid dynasty, although feeling weak it had resorted to the support of Macedonia, was overwhelmed, and, established a federative republic centered in Phoenix, Epirus allied itself with the Aetoli, while […]

But, despite so many disasters, the spirit of freedom was still alive in Greece. It had established itself, almost inadvertently, in the northern canton of the Peloponnese, Achaia, where the Achaean cities, starting from 281-280, had gradually organized themselves into a solid federal state, constituted on the example of that that on the other side […]

What characterizes Greek history from the middle of the century. IV is the participation in it in an ever greater measure of Greek populations that remained further back in civilization, as they made the civil advances of other races their own. First of all, the Macedonians. However, when, after the various dynastic crises and the […]

Of the one hundred and twenty plays, or even more, which Sophocles composed, only seven have survived whole; and these for the most part are properly after the age of Pericles and written during the Peloponnesian war, in the midst of stormy events: but yet, on the whole, they seem to reflect the previous conditions […]

Born in Eleusis (a famous sanctuary in Attica), he belongs to the heroic period of Athenian history, and is its most complete and straightforward interpreter. Fighter of Marathon, Salamis and Plataea, an essentially patriotic, moral, religious spirit, he found in tragedy the right expression to embody the ideals by which he was inflamed. The ancient […]

According to Plus-Size-Tips, the drama therefore – although it is destined to end then almost like the cyclical epic – wants to be, and is, in the period of its first splendor, a new form of epic, more current, more lively, more ardent: yes inspired by Homer’s fire; it recreates for the new people, with […]

According to Picktrue, choral opera, by great or small artists, was now foreign to the course of time, too rigid, too narrow; and it had to be replaced by something more varied and more understanding. Indeed; the passage from the Doric culture, of which we have just spoken, to the Attic culture, which is about […]

Aegean Islands. – In the Cyclades, the most explored center continues to be Delos, where the excavation of the Hellenistic districts continued with the finds of mosaics, frescoes, goldsmiths, etc. (house of the comedians, and of Furni, insula of jewels) and sanctuaries (Archegesion, Pythion, Portico dei tori, etc.). Particular attention was also paid to the prehistory of the […]

Peloponnese. – In Corinthia, research continued in various sectors, especially by the American school. The center of Corinth has been explored, as well as in its archaic and classical phases (at the temple of Apollo and in the area of ​​the agora), in the numerous monuments of its Roman reconstruction, especially on the sides of […]

Excavations and discoveries. – According to Insidewatch, the intense excavation activity combined with the architectural restoration and reorganization of old and new museums, as well as the numerous scientific publications of the materials, has brought decisive contributions and very often substantial revisions to the historical framework of the ancient civilizations (see also athens ; attic […]

The study of Greek prehistory is of very recent date. When we began to shed light on the Bronze Age of the Aegean basin, with the discoveries of the Cretan-Mycenaean civilization and of Troy, we noticed at the same time remains of an even older age, to which at first we generally gave the name […]

Name The name given in Western languages ​​to the more strictly peninsular part of the current Balkan Peninsula derives from the denomination of Graeci, under which the Romans (like the Italics in general) knew its residents in historical times. The origin of this ethnic group is not entirely sure, some connecting it, on the basis of […]