The Olympics were invented to honor the Greek Gods. The most famous gammes were held at Olympia and they took place every [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] four years. No women were allowed to attend the Olympics and all the men were naked. The Olympics started aruond 700 BCE to honor Zeus. The first day was dedicated to sacrifices for the Gods. The second day was the foot races, which were the main events, there were four types of races. First, sprinters did 1 stade which was the length of the stadium. Second was the 2 stade race, then the long distance race which was anywhere from 7 to 24 stades. Lastley, was another 2 stade race but they wore armor to train them for military purposes.
The Greco-Persian Wars are a sequence of wars that were fought between the Persians and the Greeks. This lasted about a half a decade from 499 BC to 488 BC. The Ionian Revolt initiated the First Major Persian War. This article is good, although it is very wordy, it eventually does get the point across and explains how the wars were to come about.
Wars. University Press Inc., 2008. Web. 18 Mar.2010. This made the chances for Darius() to expand his Empire and conquer more Empires. Darius gave his son-in-law land to rule that he conquered. He changed it and democracy was introduced, along with a mroe liberal tax system and all of the prisoners were [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] released and sent to their home towns. Then in 492 BC, Darius son-in-law tried to take over where Darius had left off.
The Great. Ancient Greek. University Press Inc, 2008. Web. He was born in 356 BC in Pella, Macedonia. At age 20 he was assembling powerful armies and looked at as a powerful leader. I like how this website gives the dates and explains his entire life so well. It goes into great depth about his leadership in the military which is fantastic. Alexander The Great was determined to conquer the world, but as we know didn happen but that didn keep him from capturing other places, like Syria and Mesopotamia and other countries.
Ancient Greek. University Press Inc, 2008. Pericles started of in law courthe was a leading prosecutors in getting Cimon ostracised from Athens in 461BC. After getting rid of other political opponents and murdering his rival he became Athens leading statesmen. Pericles was also incharge of the military during the Peloponnesian Wars. He did a lot to help his people and prosper in a positive way. He would also pass many laws, one of which the poor were allowed to see plays in the theatre for free.
Ancient Greek. University Press Inc, 2008. His father, Nicomachus, was a doctor and moved to Maedonia and became a court physician. Both of Aristotles parents died when he was young and he was taken in by his uncle Proxenus who sent Aristotle to Plato's acadamy. After he graduated from school he became a teacher there for 20 years and then opened his own school when Alexander became King. Then he taught at that school for 12 years and that is when he wrote much of his early works.
Ancient Greek. University Press Inc, 2008. He lived from around 490 until 430 BC. None of his original works exist today but he is still recognized by many writters. he gained most of his fame from doing sculptures of Athena which is in the Parthenon and Zeus which is in Olympia. He was thought to have many teacher that helped him train to make these fantastic statues.
Ancient Greek. University Press Inc, 2008. Many of his art was ingraved on Roman Coins, he was influenced by Greek Art so much. One of his sculptures still survives today but it authenticity is doubted by some. Most of his art was made from Marble, although he did have some paintings. His most famous and recognized work is Aphrodite of Knidos.
Ancient Greek. University Press Inc, 2008. Sophocles was given the best aristocrat education and by age 16 started to become widley known. In 468 BC he was in comptetitons for his writings where he won first place about 20 times and second place several other times. Sophocles wrote more than 100 plays of which7 werecomplete tragedies and fragments of 80to 90 others are preserved. He was the first to add [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] a third actor to his plays. He also abolished the trilogic form.
Ancient Greek. University Press Inc, 2008. His work was influenced by Roman Drama and was quite popular during his time. His plays were first preformed at Attic drama festivals in 454 BC but it was not until 442 BC when he won first prize.
Ancient Greek. University Press Inc, 2008. Web.
Aeschylus was born in the city of Eleusis which isnear Athens, in 525 BC and died in 456 BC. He was a Greek Dramatist and one of the earliest great tragic poets. Also, he fought against the Persians in 490 BC at Marathon and in Salamis in 480 BC. Aeschylus introduced a second actore to his plays which drastically changed all plays after his. He has written about 90 plays and they were first preformed in 500 BC. The titles of 79 of his plays are known and only 7 have survived to today.
The Greco-Persian Wars are a sequence of wars that were fought between the Persians and the Greeks. This lasted about a half a decade from 499 BC to 488 BC. The Ionian Revolt initiated the First Major Persian War. This article is good, although it is very wordy, it eventually does get the point across and explains how the wars were to come about.
Wars. University Press Inc., 2008. Web. 18 Mar.2010. This made the chances for Darius() to expand his Empire and conquer more Empires. Darius gave his son-in-law land to rule that he conquered. He changed it and democracy was introduced, along with a mroe liberal tax system and all of the prisoners were [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] released and sent to their home towns. Then in 492 BC, Darius son-in-law tried to take over where Darius had left off.
The Great. Ancient Greek. University Press Inc, 2008. Web. He was born in 356 BC in Pella, Macedonia. At age 20 he was assembling powerful armies and looked at as a powerful leader. I like how this website gives the dates and explains his entire life so well. It goes into great depth about his leadership in the military which is fantastic. Alexander The Great was determined to conquer the world, but as we know didn happen but that didn keep him from capturing other places, like Syria and Mesopotamia and other countries.
Ancient Greek. University Press Inc, 2008. Pericles started of in law courthe was a leading prosecutors in getting Cimon ostracised from Athens in 461BC. After getting rid of other political opponents and murdering his rival he became Athens leading statesmen. Pericles was also incharge of the military during the Peloponnesian Wars. He did a lot to help his people and prosper in a positive way. He would also pass many laws, one of which the poor were allowed to see plays in the theatre for free.
Ancient Greek. University Press Inc, 2008. His father, Nicomachus, was a doctor and moved to Maedonia and became a court physician. Both of Aristotles parents died when he was young and he was taken in by his uncle Proxenus who sent Aristotle to Plato's acadamy. After he graduated from school he became a teacher there for 20 years and then opened his own school when Alexander became King. Then he taught at that school for 12 years and that is when he wrote much of his early works.
Ancient Greek. University Press Inc, 2008. He lived from around 490 until 430 BC. None of his original works exist today but he is still recognized by many writters. he gained most of his fame from doing sculptures of Athena which is in the Parthenon and Zeus which is in Olympia. He was thought to have many teacher that helped him train to make these fantastic statues.
Ancient Greek. University Press Inc, 2008. Many of his art was ingraved on Roman Coins, he was influenced by Greek Art so much. One of his sculptures still survives today but it authenticity is doubted by some. Most of his art was made from Marble, although he did have some paintings. His most famous and recognized work is Aphrodite of Knidos.
Ancient Greek. University Press Inc, 2008. Sophocles was given the best aristocrat education and by age 16 started to become widley known. In 468 BC he was in comptetitons for his writings where he won first place about 20 times and second place several other times. Sophocles wrote more than 100 plays of which7 werecomplete tragedies and fragments of 80to 90 others are preserved. He was the first to add [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] a third actor to his plays. He also abolished the trilogic form.
Ancient Greek. University Press Inc, 2008. His work was influenced by Roman Drama and was quite popular during his time. His plays were first preformed at Attic drama festivals in 454 BC but it was not until 442 BC when he won first prize.
Ancient Greek. University Press Inc, 2008. Web.
Aeschylus was born in the city of Eleusis which isnear Athens, in 525 BC and died in 456 BC. He was a Greek Dramatist and one of the earliest great tragic poets. Also, he fought against the Persians in 490 BC at Marathon and in Salamis in 480 BC. Aeschylus introduced a second actore to his plays which drastically changed all plays after his. He has written about 90 plays and they were first preformed in 500 BC. The titles of 79 of his plays are known and only 7 have survived to today.