The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to ancient Greece:
Ancient Greece – period of Greek history lasting from the Greek Dark Ages ca. 1100 BC and the Dorian invasion, to 146 BC and the Roman conquest of Greece after the Battle of Corinth. It is generally considered to be the seminal culture which provided the foundation of Western civilization and shaped cultures throughout Southwest Asia and North Africa. Greek culture had a powerful influence on the Roman Empire, which carried a version of it to many parts of the Mediterranean region and Europe. The civilization of the ancient Greeks has been immensely influential on language, politics, educational systems, philosophy, science, and the arts, inspiring the Islamic Golden Age and the Western European Renaissance, and again resurgent during various neo-Classical revivals in 18th- and 19th-century Europe and the Americas.
Ancient Greece can be described as all of the following:
Ancient civilization
Ancient civilization from classical antiquity
Bronze Age civilization
Iron Age civilization
Part of the Greco-Roman world
Towns of ancient Greece
Regions of ancient Greece
Government and politics of ancient Greece
Democracy of Athens
Ancient Greek law
Ancient Greek lawmakers
Draco – first legislator of Athens in Ancient Greece. He replaced the prevailing system of oral law and blood feud by a written code to be enforced only by a court. Draco's written law became known for its harshness, with the adjective "draconian" referring to similarly unforgiving rules or laws.
Draconian constitution – first written constitution of Athens. So that no one would be unaware of them, they were posted on wooden tablets (ἄξονες - axones), where they were preserved for almost two centuries, on steles of the shape of three-sided pyramids (κύρβεις - kyrbeis).
Military history of ancient Greece
Warfare in ancient Greece
Hoplite
Hoplite phalanx
Military tactics in Ancient Greece
Homosexuality in the militaries of ancient Greece
Ancient Greek military personal equipment
Military powers and alliances
Ionian League (started mid-7th century BC)
1st Achaean League (formed in 5th century BC)
Delian League (478-404 BCE)
Spartan hegemony (431-371 BCE)
Theban hegemony (371-362 BCE)
League of Corinth (338-322 BCE)
Peloponnesian League (6th to 4th century BC)
Arcadian League (370 to 3rd century BCE)
2nd Achaean League (280-146 BCE)
Aetolian League (4th to 3rd century BCE?)
Trojan War
Lelantine War
Messenian Wars
First Messenian War
Second Messenian War
Third Messenian War
First Sacred War
Greco-Persian Wars – series of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire of Persia and city-states of the Hellenic world that started in 499 BC and lasted until 449 BC.
Battle of Ephesus (498 BC)
Battle of Lade
Battle of Marathon
Battle of Thermopylae
Battle of Salamis
Battle of Plataea
Battle of Mycale
Battle of the Eurymedon
First Peloponnesian War
Battle of Oenophyta
Battle of Coronea (447 BC)
Battle of Tanagra (457 BC)
Sicilian Wars
Battle of Himera (480 BC)
Battle of Himera (409 BC)
Peloponnesian War
Battle of Arginusae
Battle of Delium
Battle of Chalcis
Battle of Sybota
Battle of Potidaea
Battle of Naupactus (429 BC)
Battle of Notium
Battle of Syme
Battle of Cynossema
Battle of Pylos
Battle of Sphacteria
Battle of Amphipolis
Battle of Mantinea (418 BC)
Battle of Olpae
Sicilian Expedition
Battle of Syme
Battle of Cyzicus
Battle of Aegospotami
Corinthian War
Battle of Coronea (394 BC)
Battle of Naxos
Corinthian War
Battle of Leuctra
Battle of Cynoscephalae
Battle of Mantinea (362 BC)
March of the 10,000
Battle of Cunaxa
Battle of Crocus Field
Foreign War
Wars of Alexander the Great
Battle of Chaeronea
Battle of the Granicus
Battle of Issus
Siege of Tyre (332 BC)
Battle of Gaugamela
Battle of the Hydaspes River
Lamian War
Battle of Crannon
Wars of the Diadochi
Battle of Corupedium
Battle of Crannon
Battle of Gabiene
Battle of Gaza (312 BC)
Battle of Ipsus
Battle of Paraitacene
Battle of Raphia
Battle of Salamis in Cyprus (306 BC)
Chremonidean War
Battle of Sellasia
Battle of Pydna
Battle of Cynoscephalae
Battle of Asculum
Cretan War
First Macedonian War
Second Macedonian War
Third Macedonian War
Fourth Macedonian War
Battle of Pydna
Timeline of ancient Greece
Prehistoric Greek history
Aegean Bronze Age
Mycenaean Greece
Late Bronze Age collapse
Dorian invasion
Greek Dark Ages
History of ancient Greece (timeline)
Archaic Greece
Rise of the polis
Greco-Persian Wars
Siege of Naxos (499 BC)
Ionian Revolt
Battle of Ephesus (498 BC)
First Persian invasion of Greece
Second Persian invasion of Greece
Classical Greece
Hellenistic Greece
Roman Greece
Ancient Athens
Athenian democracy – democracy in the Greek city-state of Athens developed around the fifth century BC, making Athens one of the first known democracies in the world, comprising the city of Athens and the surrounding territory of Attica. It was a system of direct democracy, in which eligible citizens voted directly on legislation and executive bills.
Solon (c. 638 – c. 558 BC)– Athenian statesman, lawmaker, and poet. Legislated against political, economic, and moral decline in archaic Athens. His reforms failed in the short term, yet he is often credited with having laid the foundations for Athenian democracy.
Cleisthenes (born around 570 BC). – father of Athenian democracy. He reformed the constitution of ancient Athens and set it on a democratic footing in 508/7 BC.
Ephialtes (died 461 BC) – led the democratic revolution against the Athenian aristocracy, which exerted control through the Areopagus, the most powerful body in the state. Ephialtes proposed a reduction of the Areopagus' powers, and the Ecclesia (the Athenian Assembly) adopted Ephialtes' proposal without opposition. This reform signaled the beginning of a new era of "radical democracy" for which Athens would become famous.
Pericles – arguably the most prominent and influential Greek statesman. When Ephialtes was assassinated for overthrowing the elitist Council of the Aeropagus, his deputy Pericles stepped in. He was elected strategos (one of ten such posts) in 445 BCE, which he held continuously until his death in 429 BCE, always by election of the Athenian Assembly. The period during which he led Athens, roughly from 461 to 429 BC, is known as the "Age of Pericles".
Ostracism – procedure under the Athenian democracy in which any citizen could be expelled from the city-state of Athens for ten years.
Areopagus – council of elders of Athens, similar to the Roman Senate. Like the Senate, its membership was restricted to those who had held high public office, in this case that of Archon. In 594 BC, the Areopagus agreed to hand over its functions to Solon for reform.
Ecclesia – principal assembly of the democracy of ancient Athens during its "Golden Age" (480–404 BCE). It was the popular assembly, open to all male citizens with 2 years of military service. In 594 BC, Solon allowed all Athenian citizens to participate, regardless of class, even the thetes (manual laborers).
History of Sparta
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History of the Peloponnesian War
Culture of ancient Greece
Architecture of ancient Greece
Ancient Greek roofs
Buildings
Parthenon
Ancient Greek temples
Temple of Artemis
Acropolis of Athens
Ancient Agora of Athens
Temple of Zeus
Temple of Hephaestus
Samothrace temple complex
Calendar of ancient Greece
Clothing in ancient Greece
Coinage of ancient Greece
Cuisine of ancient Greece
Wine in ancient Greece
Economy of ancient Greece
Education in ancient Greece
Paideia
People in ancient Greece
Ancient Greeks
Seven Sages of Greece
Cleobulus of Lindos
Solon of Athens
Chilon of Sparta
Bias of Priene
Thales of Miletus
Pittacus of Mytilene (c. 640 – 568 BC)
Periander of Corinth (fl. 627 BC)
Ancient Greek tribes
Sexuality in ancient Greece
Homosexuality in ancient Greece
Pederasty in ancient Greece
Prostitution in ancient Greece
Slavery in ancient Greece
Art in ancient Greece
Music in ancient Greece
Musical system of ancient Greece
Sculpture in ancient Greece
Theatre of ancient Greece
Literature in ancient Greece
Writers
Aeschylus
Aesop
Aristophanes
Euripides
Herodotus
Hesiod
Homer
Lucian
Menander
Pindar
Plutarch
Polybius
Sappho
Sophocles
Theognis of Megara
Thucydides
Xenophon
Philosophy in ancient Greece
Eros (love)
Philosophers of ancient Greece
Anaxagoras
Anaximander
Anaximenes
Antisthenes
Aristotle
Democritus
Diogenes of Sinope
Epicurus
Empedocles
Heraclitus
Leucippus
Gorgias
Parmenides
Plato
Protagoras
Pythagoras
Socrates
Thales
Zeno
Olympic Games of ancient Greece
Ancient Olympic pentathlon
Pankration
Gymnasium
Sports
Boxing
Episkyros
Kottabos
Running
Wrestling
Equipment
Halteres
Stadiums
Kourion
Religion in ancient Greece
Greek mythology
Greek mythological figures
Family tree of the Greek gods
Greek mythological creatures
Trojan War characters
See also: classical mythology
Religious practices
Amphidromia
Animal sacrifice
Holocaust (sacrifice)
Hecatomb
Ancient Greek funeral and burial practices
Greek hero cult
Hieros gamos in ancient Greece
Festivals
Daphnephoria
Dionysia
Dionysian Mysteries
Eleusinian Mysteries
Panathenaic Games
Panhellenic Games
Isthmian Games
Nemean Games
Ancient Olympic Games
Pythian Games
Thesmophoria
Ancient Greek religious titles (priests)
Archon basileus
Asclepiad (title)
Hierophylakes
Iatromantis
Hellenistic religion
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek, by period
Homeric Greek
Koine Greek
Mycenaean Greek language
Ancient Greek dialects
Aeolic Greek
Arcadocypriot Greek
Attic Greek
Doric Greek
Ionic Greek
Locrian Greek
Ancient Macedonian language
Ancient Greek grammar
Ancient Greek phonology
Greek alphabet
Greek diacritics
Ancient Greek science
Greek astronomy
Greek mathematics
Ancient Greek technology
Agriculture in ancient Greece
Clothing in ancient Greece
Engineering of ancient Greece
Medicine in ancient Greece
Pottery of ancient Greece
Units of measurement in ancient Greece
