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'''Ancient Greece''' was a loose collection of [[Greek language|Greek]]-speaking [[city-state]]s centered on the [[Aegean Sea]]. The most famous of these city-states was [[ancient Athens|Athens]], because it was the center of the Athenian Empire (called the [[Delian League]]), and because it bred such keen minds and great artists as the philosopher [[Socrates]], the historian [[Thucydides]], and the playwright/poet [[Sophocles]]. Ancient Greece, and especially Athens, is credited with a host of innovations, so that it has often been described as the (or a) cradle of Western civilization. [[Democracy]], in one form, arose there, and popularized especially by the great Athenian statesman [[Pericles]]. [[Philosophy]], [[natural science]], [[historiography]], the [[theater]], [[realism]] in the arts, and many other disciplines and arts had their origin in ancient Greece. Perhaps at the root of this remarkable civilization is what has sometimes been called the spirit of ancient Greece is often described--and admired--as being devoted to independent, critical rationality, the individual, and the creative drive to excel. | '''Ancient [[Greece]]''' was a loose collection of [[Greek language|Greek]]-speaking [[city-state]]s centered on the [[Aegean Sea]]. The most famous of these city-states was [[ancient Athens|Athens]], because it was the center of the Athenian Empire (called the [[Delian League]]), and because it bred such keen minds and great artists as the philosopher [[Socrates]], the historian [[Thucydides]], and the playwright/poet [[Sophocles]]. Ancient Greece, and especially Athens, is credited with a host of innovations, so that it has often been described as the (or a) cradle of Western civilization. [[Democracy]], in one form, arose there, and popularized especially by the great Athenian statesman [[Pericles]]. [[Philosophy]], [[natural science]], [[historiography]], the [[theater]], [[realism]] in the arts, and many other disciplines and arts had their origin in ancient Greece. Perhaps at the root of this remarkable civilization is what has sometimes been called the spirit of ancient Greece is often described--and admired--as being devoted to independent, critical rationality, the individual, and the creative drive to excel. | ||
=Political History= | =Political History= | ||
==Early Greece== | ==Early Greece== | ||
Revision as of 17:32, 30 November 2008
Ancient Greece was a loose collection of Greek-speaking city-states centered on the Aegean Sea. The most famous of these city-states was Athens, because it was the center of the Athenian Empire (called the Delian League), and because it bred such keen minds and great artists as the philosopher Socrates, the historian Thucydides, and the playwright/poet Sophocles. Ancient Greece, and especially Athens, is credited with a host of innovations, so that it has often been described as the (or a) cradle of Western civilization. Democracy, in one form, arose there, and popularized especially by the great Athenian statesman Pericles. Philosophy, natural science, historiography, the theater, realism in the arts, and many other disciplines and arts had their origin in ancient Greece. Perhaps at the root of this remarkable civilization is what has sometimes been called the spirit of ancient Greece is often described--and admired--as being devoted to independent, critical rationality, the individual, and the creative drive to excel.
Political History
Early Greece
The Bronze Age and Earlier
The Dark Age
The Archaic Period
The Classical Period
Classical Athens
- Thales
- Euclid (Εύκλείδες, c. 300 BCE) was a Greek mathematician. He worked in Alexandria at the Museum founded by Ptolemy I. He systematized the geometric and arithmetic knowledge of his times in thirteen Books—Euclid's elements (Στοιχεία).