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	History of Greece - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Greek culture was a powerful influence in the Roman Empire, which carried a version of it to many parts of Europe.
		The Hellenistic period of Greek history begins with the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and ends with the annexation of the Greek peninsula and islands by Rome in 146 BC.
		After the gradual weakening of the structures of the Greek Byzantine state and the reduction of its land from Turkish invasions, came the fall of the Greek Byzantine Empire, at the hands of the Ottomans, in 1453, when the Byzantine period is considered to have ended.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greek_history (5441 words)

	History of Modern Greece -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Greek politics in the (additional info and facts about 19th century) 19th century was dominated by the national question.
		The Greeks then asked Britain to send (Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and empress of India from 1837 to 1901 (1819-1901)) Queen Victoria's son (additional info and facts about Prince Alfred) Prince Alfred as their new king, but this was vetoed by the other powers.
		Nationalist sentiment among Greeks in the Ottoman Empire continued to grow, and by the (The decade from 1890 to 1899) 1890s there were constant disturbances in (Landlocked republic on the Balkan Peninsula; achieved independence from Yugoslavia in 1991) Macedonia.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/hi/history_of_modern_greece.htm (4092 words)

	Greek mythology - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		A Greek deity's epithet may reflect a particular aspect of that god's role, as Apollo Musagetes is "Apollo, leader of the Muses." Alternatively the epithet may identify a particular and localized aspect of the god, sometimes already ancient during the classical epoch of Greece.
		Like their neighbors, the Greeks believed in a pantheon of gods and goddesses who were associated with specific aspects of life.
		To the Greeks, mythology was literally a part of their history; few ever doubted that there was truth behind the account of the Trojan War in the Iliad and Odyssey.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /greek_mythology.htm (2939 words)

	Greek History - History for Kids!
		Greek history for kids: ancient Greece from the Stone Age to the Byzantine period.
		Greek history is usually divided into a Stone Age, a Bronze Age, and an Iron Age.
		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/history.htm (296 words)

	Greek Theater
		Ancient Greeks from the 5th century BC onwards were fascinated by the question of the origins of tragedy and comedy.
		Greek plays were performed as part of religious festivals in honor of the god Dionysus, and unless later revived, were performed only once.
		Early Greek theaters were probably little more than open areas in city centers or next to hillsides where the audience, standing or sitting, could watch and listen to the chorus singing about the exploits of a god or hero.
	academic.reed.edu /humanities/110Tech/Theater.html (3005 words)

	Greek yacht charters
		But the timeline is also a reminder that what and who was mighty in the past, does not necessarily stay mighty for all time.
		History reveals how wave after wave of rulers conquered Greece, or at least some of her islands, only to replaced by the next shift in political powers, but in the end, she is ruled by the people who live there, not by a foreign government.
		The Greek general leading the Athenians, enticed the Persian fleet into engaging in battle not on the open sea, but in the narrow straits of Salamis, where what mattered most was agility, speed and knowledge of the straits, not size and number of vessels.
	www.yachtcrew.com /dest-greekisles.html (3103 words)

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		Alcaeus, Greek lyric poet, is born in Mytilene on the island of Lesbos.
		Sappho, Greek lyric poet of Lesbos, is born.
		His contribution to the history of Greek tragedy is his creation of a drama that deals with situations analogous to human life.
	eawc.evansville.edu /chronology/grpage.htm (1827 words)

	Greek-American Oral Histories: Timeline
		While both of these organizations were intended for Greeks who had chosen to settle permanently in the United States, they each advocated different approaches to Greek life in America.
		While early immigrants and their families worked hard to establish themselves and create Greek American communities, the number of Greeks who immigrated to America dramatically decreased in the 1920's due to a shift in American immigration laws.
		In 1965 the number of Greek immigrants began to increase, as a result of the 1965 Immigration Act which ended the national-quota system and gave preference to family members wishing to be reunited with those already in America.
	www.chnm.gmu.edu /greekam/timeline.html (588 words)

	History of Greece
		This is a brief timeline of Greek History.
		Ostensibly its purpose was twofold: to build and maintain a large navy to retrieve the Greek city-states that were still occupied by Persia, and to establish an effective defense against another Persian attack.
		In 416 BC the Sicilian city of Segesta asked Athens to intervene in a squabble it was having with Selinus, an ally of Syracuse.
	www.geocities.com /the_temple_of_ares/history.html (1506 words)

	Greek Martial Art Mythology, History & Mythology
		As a result, mainland Greece and its islands are distributed among the crusaders and many pankratiasts conceal themselves in the Greek mountains in order to preserve their knowledge and their art.
		Small clans of freedom fighters, who carry on the traditions of Greek martial art, continue living in the mountains on both mainland Greece and Western Anatolia.
		Arvanitis begins to publicly teach his modern Greek martial art (Mu Tau) to a select group of followers in the U.S.A. He calls his school Spartan Academy in honor of a familial legend regarding their ancient lineage.
	www.mutau.net /sites/mythhistphil/history/timeline (1390 words)

	Greek History
		A wonderful introduction to the Ancient Greek theatre with diagrams of the parts of a theatre, 3D reconstruction of the theatre of Dionysos in Athens, and galleries of pictures from ancient theatre remains.
		Ancient Greece: The Theban Hegemony: 371-362 BC Sparta is defeated at Leuktra and Theba rises as the leader of the Greek city-states.
		History of this Nothern part of Greece throughout the centuries, including history of Thessaloniki.
	www.geocities.com /yioulepp/GreekHistory.htm (2365 words)

	Term One Resources: Greece and Rome
		Ancient Greek Civilizations: Overviews of historical, literary, and archaeological topics.
		Thucydides: Perikles' Funeral Oration and The Plague in Athens
		This is in part because the "Life" does an excellent job of demonstrating the classical views about the purposes of biographical and historical writing that became so important to the Romans, and in part because approaching Alexander through the biography finishes the study of Greece and creates a nice transition into Rome and her values.
	www.culver.org /academics/Humanities/greece.asp (903 words)

	BBC - Schools - Ancient Greece Timeline
		The first shows details of the period from 800 BC until the end of the Greek empire in 146 BC.
		The second timeline shows the period from 1000 BC to the present day.
		490 and 480 BC Greeks defeat Persian invaders at the battles of Marathon (490 BC)and Salamis (480 BC).
	www.bbc.co.uk /schools/ancientgreece/timeline/index.shtml (203 words)

	Classical Greek History Timeline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The march of the Ten Thousand -- 10,000 Greek mercenaries are left in hostile Persian territory without their generals and must march 1000 miles back to Greek territory.
		384 BC The Greek philosopher Aristotle (384-304 BC) is born; his father is physician to king of Macedonia.
		338 BC A Greek army (Athenians and Thebans) is beaten by Philip's son, Alexander the Great, at Chaeronea.
	www.tccc.cc.nc.us /swood/251/ClassicalGreekHistoryTimeline.htm (1725 words)

	Ancient Roman History Timeline
		The early history of Rome is mythical and legendary, and our sources come centuries after the facts.
		The history of this period is a mixture of myth and fact, passed on as oral tradition until recorded centuries later by historians such as Livy and Diodorus.
		Slaves themselves occupied a wide spectrum spanning class divisions from the Greek tutor who would initiate Patrician youth in the sophistications of Hellenism, to the gladiator whose life was at the mercy of the mob.
	www.exovedate.com /ancient_timeline_one.html (1861 words)

	UCSB: CLASSICS 40: Greek Mythology: Internet Resources
		Carlos Panada's Greek Mythology Link is incredibly comprehensive: many beautiful images, searchable summaries of mythological figures and events great and small, handy family trees of mythological figures, excellent maps and so on.
		This is an extremely useful source for Greek mythology, since its compendious (if cursory) survey of the myths told in the enormous mass of Classical literature still available at its time of writing fills many gaps left by the individual works that happen to survive today.
		Marilyn Katz (Wesleyan University) well highlights the importance of myth (and its problems) for reconstructing the history of Greek women in her recent essay, "Daughters of Demeter," published in Becoming Visible: Women in European History, 3rd edition, edited by Renate Bridenthal, Susan Mosher Stuard and Mary E. Wiesner (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1998), pp.
	www.classics.ucsb.edu /faculty/morstein/classes/mythology/resources.htm (1461 words)

	Ancient Greek History Facts & Timeline
		The Ancient Greek History Timeline & Facts is full of interesting facts and information about the bygone times of the Ancient Greek Nation.
		The Ancient Greek History Timeline & Facts outlines and records all of the critical and major incidents in the history of the nation.
		We believe that the concise Ancient Greek History Timeline & Facts is full of interesting facts and information about the bygone times of the Ancient Greek Nation.
	www.facts-about.org.uk /history-and-events-timeline-ancient-greek.htm (526 words)

	Greece - Immanuel College Library Resource Centre
		The history of plumbing - Greece - the Greeks made strong headway in the development of water systems, especially cold water systems.
		Greek mathematics and its modern heirs - classical roots of the scientific revolution.
		Greek Mythology - from the Iliad to the Fall of the last Tyrant - lists of gods, origins of Greek mythology.
	www.schools.ash.org.au /immanuel/htm/greece.htm (547 words)

	Greek Drama
		Didaskalia Excellent site discussing the beginnings of ancient theatre in Greece and an introduction to Greek stagecraft, from masks and machinery to the nature of the stage and its players and playwrights.
		University of Idaho Excellent webpage discussing conventions of Greek tragic theatre, including major playwrights, the acting area, the use of mask and the function of the chorus.
		University of Victoria Timeline of Greek history and literature.
	www.theatrelinks.com /greek.htm (701 words)

	BUBL LINK: Greek history
		Greek and Roman history, art and archaeology, classical mythology, language, and ancient philosophy are among the topics covered.
		Offers a timeline of events from 1400BC to 337BC, an insight to how the Acropolis and the Parthenon Temple were built, and details of famous Greeks including Cleisthenes, Themistocles, Pericles, Aspasia, and Socrates.
		Article tracing the discovery of the temple of Poseidon in 1952 by Oscar Broneer, the director of the University of Chicago Excavations at Isthmia, and the subsequent excavation of the central plateau containing the temple, altar, surrounding buildings, and a Roman hero shrine.
	bubl.ac.uk /link/g/greekhistory.htm (769 words)

	The History Place - Holocaust Timeline
		He testifies at Nuremberg, then is later tried in Warsaw, found guilty and hanged at Auschwitz, April 16, 1947, near Crematory I. "History will mark me as the greatest mass murderer of all time," H
		A fellow Nazi reported Eichmann once said "he would leap laughing into the grave because the feeling that he had five million people on his conscience would be for him a source of extraordinary satisfaction."
		Timeline of World War II in Europe
	www.historyplace.com /worldwar2/holocaust/timeline.html (4366 words)

	Balkan Peninsula, 1000 B.C.-1 A.D. \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Following a period of sporadic incursions and large movements of people, demographic and economic changes in the eighth century B.C. lead to overseas colonization, spreading the Greek language and culture across the Mediterranean and Black seas.
		Greeks from the island of Euboea (northwest of Attica) establish the first known of such colonies at Pithekousai on the island of Ischia in the Bay of Naples.
		Having defeated the Persian king and won a great empire, he extends Greek influence to the east as far as the Indus Valley and Afghanistan.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/ht/04/eusb/ht04eusb.htm (938 words)

	Ancient Greek World Links
		History for Kids: Greece- This site was initially designed for middle schoolers studying Greece, but it has been improved.
		Ancient Greek Civilization: Medicine in Ancient Greece- Discusses the practice of medicine by the Ancient Greeks and the Hippocratic Oath.
		Herodotus on the Victory at Marathon- describes the battle at Marathon between the Greeks and the Persians.
	www.mccsc.edu /~kmcglaun/Greece/ancient.htm (525 words)

	ArtLex on Mythology
		Hellenistic Greek, Samothrace (island in the North Aegean Sea), c.
		Hannah: Who She Is, 1982, acrylic and oil on canvas, 84 x 60 1/4 inches, National Museum of women in Art, Washington, DC.
		Includes images of ancient Greek gods and goddesses, organized by the name of the figure, the content of the scene, and the date of the artwork.
	www.artlex.com /ArtLex/m/mythology.html (1312 words)

	Classical Myth: Info: Time Line
		Break-up of Mycenaean civilization; Greek settlements throughout the Aegean Islands and the coast of Asia Minor.
		Emergence of the classical Greek city-states, governed by family groups or dictators (mainly 7th-6th century),or democracies (begun by Athens, 5th century)
		Greek city-states flourish until overshadowed by the powerful Macedonian kings.
	web.uvic.ca /grs/bowman/myth/info/timeline.html (208 words)

	Western Civilization Resources for DHS Students (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		A history of Egyptian fashion, with intertextual links to the cosmetics and jewelry of the time.
		Cat domestication began early in the history of Homo sapiens, but the ancient Egyptians promoted them to most pampered pet status.
		Created in 1966, the SCA "is an international organization dedicated to researching and recreating pre-17th-century European history." The examples used are unique to the SCA.
	www.open.org /~dallashs/western.htm (1746 words)

	ANCIENT GREEK MYTH - Home Page
		Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
		Many Greek authors and texts are to be found (Greek and English versions) on Perseus.
		Many of the internet sites that deal with Ancient Greek Myth and Religion are indifferent, unreliable or worse.
	www.greekmyth.org (1562 words)

	Center for Liberal Arts - University of Virginia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Online Greek Mythology Reference Tool This searchable site of key words (characters, places, events) associated with Greek mythology and Greek heroic legend is a helpful reference tool.
		Introductions to the Ancient Stage available on the WWW (Classics Department, University of Saskatchewan) Discussions of ancient theater in the classrooom are accompanied by lecture notes from a college course on theater history and sections on Greek tragedy and comedy.
		The project seeks to serve as a teaching and research tool and further expand the ways ancient Greek literature, history, art, and archaelogy can be examined.
	www.virginia.edu /cla/resources/clmyth2.html (446 words)

	Independent Study in Greek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		GREEK GRAMMAR ON THE WEB: The Electronic Gateway to the Study of Ancient Greek.
		This site provides a resource for classicists, theologians, and anyone else who wishes to type Classical Greek into their PC (apologies to Mac users, who must look elsewhere).
		It contains a selection of Classical Greek fonts, various utilities to facilitate the process of typing Greek, and answers to a number of the common technical problems facing the twenty-first century Hellenist.
	lilt.ilstu.edu /drjclassics/ISUclassics/Greek/Greek_at_ISU.htm (467 words)

	A timeline of ancient Greece
		1000 BC: Greeks colonize the eastern coasts of the Aegean Sea
		800 BC: Greeks adopt the alphabet from the Phoenicians
		480 BC: the Greeks defeat the Persians at Salamis
	www.scaruffi.com /politics/greeks.html (1009 words)

	Wolzek's Terror Timeline: History of the Jewish War Against the World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The new culture and learning is based almost entirely on ancient Greek and Roman scriptures, the cradle of European civilization, and the Renaissance will remain forever a great example of what a free White people can accomplish.
		Polish history during the following three centuries will show a long struggle for supremacy between Jews and Gentiles, with the Jewish side given a boost by a large influx of Jews coming from the fallen Khazar kingdom in the 1300s.
		Jews did not assimilate in Poland; most of them did not learn the language of the Christian Poles, because, other than rudimentary commerce and illicit sexual activity, the Jews had virtually no contact with the Poles even though they had lived in their country for centuries.
	www.vanguardnewsnetwork.com /temp/HistoryofOurWorld.html (4519 words)

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