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	Ancient Greece - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The period from 1600 BC to about 1100 BC is described in History of Mycenaean Greece known for the reign of King Agamemnon and the wars against Troy as narrated in the epics of Homer.
		Greece was divided into many small self-governing communities, a pattern dictated by Greek geography, where every island, valley and plain is cut off from its neighbours by the sea or mountain ranges.
		In the Classical period, this training was necessary for an ambitious young man. A crucial part of a wealthy teenager's education was a loving mentor relationship with an elder.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Classical_Greece (4938 words)

	Classical antiquity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ancient Greece is the period in Greek history lasting for close to a millennium, until the rise of Christianity.
		The western half of the empire, including Hispania, Gaul, and Italy, eventually broke into independent kingdoms in the 5th century; the eastern empire, governed from Constantinople, is referred to as the Byzantine Empire after AD 476, the traditional date for the "fall of Rome" and subsequent onset of the Middle Ages.
		In the 18th and 19th centuries reverence for classical antiquity was much greater in Western Europe and the United States than it is today.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Classical_antiquity (890 words)

	Lecture 7: Classical Greece, 500-323BC
		Between 490 and 479 B.C., Greece was invaded by the army and naval fleet of the Persian Empire.
		The period from 500-323 B.C. is the Classical or Hellenic age of Greek civilization.
		It is in the classical age then, that we meet the father of history, HERODOTUS (c.485-425 B.C.).
	www.historyguide.org /ancient/lecture7b.html (3808 words)

	Classical Sculpture
		The golden age of classical Greece dictated that this earthly world can be explained in terms of cause and effect, and that every civilized society was built on the underlying foundation of logic.
		In the art of Greece during the Classical period the characteristic smile of the Archaic sculpture was replaced by a solemn facial expression.
		It was clear to an artist of the Classical period of Greece that the beauty of the whole depends on the harmony of the parts which comprise it, and that each part depends on the others in order to create a harmonious group.
	www.greeklandscapes.com /greece/athens_museum_classical.html (1266 words)

	Ruins of Classical Greece
		Some prominence would be reclaimed in 330 with the division of the Roman empire into east and west, and after the collapse of the Western Empire in the eight century the Byzantines became Greek in language and perspective until conquered by the Turks in 1453.
		Greece, as an independent state, was not fully realized until demise of the Ottomans in 1830.
		The statues remaining in Greece were mostly in museums closed for renovation because of the upcoming Olympics.
	www.gatetrails.com /greektrip/ruins.html (1964 words)

	The Hellenes: Classical Greece
		During the time of Pericles, Classical Greece reached the heights for which it is remembered today: amongst his more famous achievements was the construction of the Parthenon on the acropolis in Athens, built from 447 BC to 432 BC and dedicated to that city's patron goddess, Athena Parthenos.
		When the Romans finally occupied Greece - long after the latter's collapse - they were in awe of the sheer splendor and beauty of Athens, and took much of their architecture and artistic style direct from Classical Greece.
		The downfall of Classical Greece - the importation of non-White slaves.
	www.white-history.com /hwr10.htm (4399 words)

	A History of Europe, Chapter 2
		Greece's coast has peninsulas jutting out all over the place, and no place in Greece is more than eighty miles from the sea.
		Greece and her colonies (red) in the mid-sixth century B.C. Also shown are the two main rivals of Greece, the Phoenicians (purple) and the Etruscans (yellow).
		Greece had plenty of goddesses, and celebrated the female form nearly as often as the male form in art, but the real status of women was low.
	xenohistorian.faithweb.com /europe/eu02.html (17851 words)

	Classical Greece - History for Kids!
		In 510 BC a man named Cleisthenes (KLICE-then-eez), who was an aristocrat (a rich, powerful man) in Athens, invented another new type of government, the democracy.
		By this time, all of Greece had pretty much been wrecked, and the Classical period was over.
		The Oxford Illustrated History of Greece and the Hellenistic World, by John Boardman, Jasper Griffin, and Oswyn Murray (2001).
	www.historyforkids.org /learn/greeks/history/classical.htm (715 words)

	Landscapes/Cityscapes: Classical Greece
		In the midst of this onslaught, I grew weary of the “new and improved” Greece.
		A moped ride through the island of Mykonos was only 2,500 drachmas (the equivalent of $10 – this was the pre-euro era!), but the conversations I had with a goat herder and a posse of Mykonos waiters were priceless.
		Greece is much more than an Olympic showcase center – it is the cradle of civilization.
	www.thelongtriphome.com /articles-lc-cathy3.html (355 words)

	Greece 3: Classical Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		That is, all of Greece except for the Peloponesian peninsula and Sparta.
		Athens and Sparta formed separate factions in the Classical world, but when most of us think of the Classical empire we are thinking of the Athenian civilization: the Plays, the Philosophy, the Government, the Architecture, and the History.
		Still, this theme of moderation is recurrent in Ancient and Classical Greece, and along with the almost secular approach to religion, set the stage for the classical approach to philosophy that Dr. Sipos is talking about with you now.
	www.wpunj.edu /irt/courses/hist101-50/h-greek3.htm (1483 words)

	Classical Greece
		Begin your classical tour of Greece today as you depart the United States on an overnight transatlantic flight.
		Built during the 4th century B.C., it is the best preserved theatre in Greece and holds 14,000 spectators.
		Explore the classical treasures of Athens this afternoon as your guide takes you on a sightseeing tour of one of the most ancient capitals in the Western world.
	www.grouptravelservices.com /classicalgreece.htm (983 words)

	MrDonn.org - Ancient Greece Unit Grade 6
		This is the introductory lesson of a unit on Ancient Greece.
		This is the sixth lesson of a unit on Ancient Greece.
		In Greece, a prediction or the name of the place where a prediction was told.
	ancienthistory.mrdonn.org /Greece.html (6048 words)

	The New Greek Galleries \| Explore & Learn \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Invasion of mainland Greece by the Persian king and his armies in the first decades of the fifth century
		Monumental sculpture was slower to break from the Archaic conventions of symmetry and bold frontality.
		An open-air theater dedicated to Dionysos was built on the south slope of the Akropolis where many of the most famous plays of classical antiquity were first performed.
	www.metmuseum.org /explore/Greek/Class.htm (648 words)

	Classical Greece
		The victories in the Persian Wars produced a new sense of optimism and unity in Greece.
		The principal gods were said to reside on Mount Olympus and on its highest peak was the palace of Zeus, the chief deity.
		One very old oracle was at Dodona in NW Greece where a priest would divine the will of Zeus by interpreting the rustling of the leaves of Zeus' sacred oaks.
	socsci.gulfcoast.edu /rbaldwin/classical_greece.htm (11487 words)

	Lecture 6: The Athenian Origins of Direct Democracy
		In 561, the former military leader Pisistratus (c.600-527 B.C.) appeared at Athens and seized the Acropolis and began to rule as a tyrant in place of Solon.
		century, the classical age of Greece, is an age of near constant warfare.
		Between 490 and 474 B.C., the Greeks fought the Persians and at the end of the century (431-404 B.C.), a war between Sparta and Athens not only spelled the end of Athenian dominance, but also the death of Athenian direct democracy.
	www.historyguide.org /ancient/lecture6b.html (2724 words)

	Ancient Greece: Projects & Internet Resources
		The knowledge of philosophy and natural science accumulated by the ancient Greeks seemed to have crumbled with their civilization, though it was later recovered in part, by various successive cultures.
		It is intended primarily as a resource for students of classical civilization, art, archaeology, and history who may wish to take a "virtual tour" of the chief excavated regions and monuments.
		This page was created to be an entry for a Canadian secondary school in the 1997 Ontario Students Classics Conference for which their site received first place for the most outstanding project in the technological category of the Ontario Students Classics Conference.
	www.internet-at-work.com /hos_mcgrane/greece/eg_greece_intro.html (2399 words)

	Greece Tour, The Classical Moment (500-338 BC) LiteraryTraveler.com
		Along with the Judeo-Christian heritage, classical Greece provided the foundation on which so much that is familiar to us is constructed.
		Greece is much more than old stones and old books.
		The port of ancient Mycenae, Napflio is a timeless and romatic town on the Peloponese sheltered in the upper pocket of the Argolic Gulf and guarded by the Venetian island castle of Bourtzi.
	www.literarytraveler.com /tours/greece_tour.aspx (337 words)

	CLASSICAL GREECE
		This Classical period is generally held to represent the height of Greek literary, artistic, and intellectual accomplishment and stands as the most flourishing period of the Greek “city‑states” (poleis [sing.: polis]).
		We shall also give some time to background work on the earlier history of Greece in the Bronze Age, Dark Age, and Archaic periods, preceding the Classical period.
		Supplementary materials for this course will be collected in the Classical Greece Reader which is available at Pequod Copy on Easton Ave (some additional material may also be circulated).
	classics.rutgers.edu /classgreecesyll.html (810 words)

	Classical Greece
		Whatever the depth of our Classical education, there is a deep seated knowledge in all of us that the places visited on this tour are of the greatest significance for our identity and way of life.
		A journey to Greece is like a journey to our homeland, a voyage in which a search for our roots is fulfilled.
		In order to get the best out of the tour, it is essential to be able to cope with a fair amount of walking over the rough terrain—it would not be suitable for anyone who is not surefooted or used to everyday walking and stairclimbing—average distance by coach per day: 70 miles.
	www.martinrandall.com /tours/ms284-mt445.php (1029 words)

	Tour Classical Greece
		From picturesque fishing villages to ancient historic ruins, this vacation is a classic.
		(Fri.) Enjoy a tour of the capital’s classical sights: the Parthenon’s crowning beauty atop the ACROPOLIS, the Erechtheum with its Porch of Maidens, the beautifully preserved Theseum, Roman Temple of Zeus, Theater of Dionysus and the Agora where Socrates taught.
		Vistas of the Royal Palace, government buildings, and elegant homes in the modern city provide a striking contrast to the remains of the glorious past.
	www.azeurope.com /GLRG.htm (738 words)

	Classical Greece Pathfinder
		The Library of Congress Subject Headings is a very useful reference source which can help you broaden or narrow your topic; it will also help you with a subject search by providing you with the specific subject headings--the standard "library vocabulary"--that you can use to search for your topic in the online catalog.
		The following indexes are particularly useful to researchers in the area of Classical Greece.
		An archive of classical texts in translation; although most are from the Greek and Roman world, the site does include translations of some ancient Chinese and Persian texts.
	www.unhm.unh.edu /greece.html (2093 words)

	Daily Life in Ancient Greece - Welcome to ancient Greece! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		They were the property of their owner, not citizens of ancient Greece.
		Slaves were so important to the culture of ancient Greece, that some historians believe there were as many slaves as citizens!
		Barber shops first became popular in ancient Greece, and were an important part of the social life of many ancient Greek males.
	members.aol.com /Donnclass/Greeklife.html (3890 words)

	Open Directory - Arts: Classical Studies: Greek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Ancient Greece - Links and information on Ancient Greece: history, mythology, art and architecture, the Olympics, wars, people, geography and other resources.
		Languages and Dialects of Greece Timeline - Dialects of Ancient Greek.
		Timeline of Greek Classics - by Laurel Bowman.
	dmoz.org /Arts/Classical_Studies/Greek (412 words)

	Sailing Classical Greece
		Combine all these in a fabulous one-week sailing cruise, tracing the sacred triangle of the Ancients.
		One of the best preserved temples in Greece - older, more beautiful and much less frequented than the Parthenon in Athens.
		As an option, this cruise can be adjusted to give you one day in Athens to visit the Acropolis/Parthenon complex.
	www.sailingnexus.com /ClassicalGreeceCharter.htm (177 words)

	ART HISTORY RESOURCES ON THE WEB: Greek Art
		Death, Burial, and the Afterlife in Ancient Greece
		Classical Art, Ancient Greek and Roman Art (at the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University)
		Classical Greek Art (5th - 4th Centuries BC in the collection of the Musée du Louvre, Paris
	witcombe.sbc.edu /ARTHgreece.html (1781 words)

	BHCC Library Web Page: HIS 111
		See what titles are listed when you use the Keyword search option for the terms Ancient and Greece and then compare the results with another Keyword search using the terms Classical and Greece
		When you are searching for magazine, journal, or newspaper articles on Classical Greece you can use a variety of online subscription databases.
		The Perseus Digital Library -- from Tufts University, select the "Classics" file from the Perseus Contents that include primary Ancient Greek texts many of which are translated into English and secondary sources on Ancient Greece that include many museum links.
	www.noblenet.org /bhcc/his111.htm (778 words)

	Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Greece
		Herodotus (c.490-c.425 BCE): Xerxes Invades Greece from The Histories.
		Documents of the Rise of Hellenic Tyranny, c.
		The Reception of Texts and Images of Ancient Greece in Late Twentieth-Century Drama and Poetry in English [Open University]
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/ancient/asbook07.html (2613 words)

	Classical Greece Cruises (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In addition to our Casual Cruise programs, it is our great pleasure to announce the operation of seven exclusive 7-day scheduled cruises during the summer months of 2006 on board our upscale vessels S/C Pantheon and S/C Panorama.
		Wednesday KYTHIRA – Late morning swim stop and afternoon arrival to Kythira, a less known island gem now fast becoming a favourite among visitors to Greece.
		Evening at leisure to visit the picturesque main town of Chora and experience the subdued charms of this peaceful island.
	www.odysseysailing.gr /cruises/cyclades-cruise.html (947 words)

	Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Ancient History in the Movies
		Note that some of the best of these movies are the films made of plays by classical authors.
		In general, I recommend seeing foreign language films in the original language with subtitles rather than dubbed into English.
		The intonation of the classical Greek text is in accordance with recent linguistic discoveries.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/ancient/asbookmovies.html (2295 words)

	The Evolution And Legacy Of Classical Greece (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In this group we will explore the entire range of Greek thought, actions, the accomplishments and driving forces that shaped and molded their world, and ultimately ours, since no culture can be fully understood without a complete and thorough study of all the component parts.
		The Discussions of The Evolution And Legacy Of Classical Greece:
		While Aesop was technically a Lydian, who brought the Lydian gift for fables into the Greek world.
	www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Group/88080 (287 words)

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