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5 days ago · Greece entered a period known as the "Greek Dark Ages," marked by population decline, the abandonment of urban centers, and a dramatic simplification of material culture. Yet despite this collapse, the legacy of the Mycenaean kingdoms endured.
5 days ago · This term was coined by the Italian poet Petrarch in the 1330s to describe what he saw as a period of cultural and intellectual darkness following the bright light of the Greek and Roman civilizations. However, modern historians have largely rejected the notion of the "Dark Ages" as inaccurate and pejorative.
18 hours ago · Greek Dark Ages 1050 BC–750 BC; Archaic Greece 800 BC–480 BC; Classical Greece 500 BC–323BC; Hellenistic Greece 323 BC–31 BC; Roman Greece 146 BC–330
3 days ago · Dark Ages. Archaic Period. Classical Period. 5th century BC. 4th century BC. Hellenistic Period, Roman Period, Indo-Greek Kingdom and Greco-Bactrian Kingdom. Medieval Greece.
4 days ago · Trojan War, legendary conflict between the early Greeks and the people of Troy in western Anatolia, dated by later Greek authors to the 12th or 13th century BCE. The war stirred the imagination of ancient Greeks more than any other event in their history and was celebrated in the Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer.
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- According to the ancient Greek epic poet Homer, the Trojan War was caused by Paris, son of the Trojan king, and Helen, wife of the Greek king Menel...
- There has been much debate over historical evidence of the Trojan War. Archaeological finds in Turkey suggest that the city of Troy did exist but t...
- The Greeks won the Trojan War. According to the Roman epic poet Virgil, the Trojans were defeated after the Greeks left behind a large wooden horse...
- The death of Achilles, the greatest Greek warrior of the Trojan War, is not described in Homeric works. In Arctinus’s Aethiopis, Achilles is said t...
1 day ago · It was sudden, violent, and culturally disruptive for many Bronze Age civilizations, and it brought a sharp economic decline to regional powers, most notably ushering in the Greek Dark Ages.
May 20, 2024 · Minoan civilization, Bronze Age civilization of Crete that flourished from about 3000 BCE to about 1100 BCE. Its name derives from Minos, either a dynastic title or the name of a particular ruler of Crete who has a place in Greek legend.
