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 Epicharmus of Kos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Epicharmus (c540–c450 BCE), also called Epicharmus of Kos, was a Greek dramatist and philosopher often credited with being one of the first comic writers, having originated the Doric or Sicilian comedic form.
Epicharmus was born around 540 BCE in Astypalea, the ancient capital of Kos on the Bay of Kamari, near modern-day Kefalos.
After 484 BCE he lived in Syracuse, and worked as a poet for the tyrants Gelon and Hiero I.
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 6th Century BCE [Definition]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Roman RepublicThe Roman Republic (Latin: Res Publica Romanorum) was the representative government of Rome and its territories from 510 BC until the establishment of the Roman Empire, sometimes placed at 44 BC (the year of Caesar's appointment as perpetual dictator) or, more commonly, 27 BC (the year that the Senate granted Octavianus the title "Augustus")....
Born Siddhartha Gautama in Sanskrit, a name meaning 'descendant of Gotama whose aims are achieved/who is efficacious in achieving aims', he later became the Buddha (literally Enlightened One or Awakened One).
ConfuciusConfucius (traditionally 551 BC – 479 BC) was a famous sage and social philosopher of China whose teachings deeply influenced East Asia during twenty centuries.
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 Context: Herodotus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
BCE) of Greek cities of Ionia, which had come under Persian sway in the last quarter of the
BCE, which ended with the battle of Marathon, to Xerxes invasion of Greece in
But Herodotus tries to put this conflict in a more universal context and to describe it in terms of some fundamental truths of human affairs.
doxa.stoa.org /cocoon/demos/author_Herodotus?greekEncoding=UnicodeC   (568 words)

  
 Fathom :: The Source for Online Learning
They were like their contemporaries in their avoidance of discussion of practical matters; only occasionally do they stoop to tell us just how some state managed to arm and field an army or a navy.
Because the ancient authors give us only the most scattered and unspecific of information about silver mining, to look at the subject is to write history against the main themes that the ancient writers tried to impose on it.
When the richer veins were discovered, in the 480s, they produced a windfall for the Athenian state, and Athens went from being a secondary power to becoming one of the most important states in Greece.
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 ThFShist.htm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The War: it had just erupted, between Athens and Sparta and their allies, for a host of causes of which the underlying one was Sparta’s "fear of the growing power of Athens" (Thucydides 1.88.1, 118.2).
The Athenian Empire, or Delian League: Athens had become leader of a defensive alliance of Greek states set up after the Persian invasion of Greece (480-479 BCE) and had gradually consolidated her leadership, reducing the ability of individual member states to command independent naval forces, and taxing them instead to support ship-building at Athens.
Athenian wealth: a major source of Athenian wealth from the 480s was the silver mines at Laureion (on the east coast of Attica).
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 469 BC [Definition]
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AspasiaAspasia (c.469 BCE–c.406 BCE) was the mistress of Pericles.
Aspasia was born in the Ionian Greek colony of Miletus (in what is now Turkey), but at some point travelled to Athens, where she became a hetaira — a high-class entertainer, something like a courtesan, but closer to the Japanese geisha.
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 The Original Wold Newton Universe Crossover Chronology Part I
The remnants of the great civilization of Atlantis have deteriorated to barbarism, and Kull is a barbarian warrior from this ancient land.
10,000 BCE - Coincident with the end of the Hyborian Age is the time of Conan, a barbarian warrior from Cimmeria.
Her adventures are chronicled in Marvel comic books, as well as in six novels by David C. Smith and Richard L. Tierney: The Ring of Ikribu, Demon Night, When Hell Laughs, Endothor’s Daughter, Against the Prince of Hell, and Star of Doom.
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 467 BCE [Definition]
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 DigeratiCafe: 520s BCE :Online Reference Section   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
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 Classics 125/History 209: Ancient Multicultures
Histories (“Inquiries” is a better translation than his literal title, since History hadn’t become a specialized subject in his time which was 480s-430s BCE).
Julius Caesar conquered Gaul in 58-52 BCE, and wrote a couple of ethnographies, based on Greek sources, to explain to Romans what he was doing.
The Gauls are described in book 1 ad initium and in book 6, chapters 11-20.
www.coloradocollege.edu /Dept/CL/CL125Syllabus.htm   (762 words)

  
 Web Exercise
How did the government of Athens change during the 480s BCE?
What changes were occurring within the Athenian democracy in the 460s BCE?
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