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3 days ago · June 1, 2024. Polycrates the pirate. Credit: lluisribesmateᥩ. CC BY 2.0/ flickr. Polycrates was the first ruler in ancient Greece to understand the importance of controlling the seas, and as such he commanded the most powerful fleet in the Greek world from his seat of power in Samos, earning him a reputation as a tyrant pirate. Samos boasted ...
5 days ago · Athens, historic city and capital of Greece. Many of Classical civilization’s intellectual and artistic ideas originated there, and the city is generally considered to be the birthplace of Western civilization. Athens. Athens lies 5 miles (8 km) from the Bay of Phaleron, an inlet of the Aegean (Aigaíon) Sea where Piraeus (Piraiévs), the ...
1 day ago · Authorities in Larissa, Central Greece, are launching an ambitious urban regeneration project on Monday that is centered around an initiative to connect 16 historical monuments and landmarks across the city center. The start of the project will mean road closures across the downtown area for the duration, which will take at least two months ...
3 days ago · The ancient Greek city-state of Thebes had been under Spartan occupation for three years when a group of Theban exiles stormed the citadel in 379 B.C. and retook the city.
3 days ago · In ancient Athens, the Athenian democracy was restored on three separate occasions following the initial conquest of the city by Antipater in 322 BC. When it fell repeatedly under Macedonian rule it was governed by a Macedonian-imposed oligarchy composed of the wealthiest members of the city-state.
3 days ago · Sparta, ancient capital of the Laconia district of the southeastern Peloponnese, southwestern Greece. The sparsity of ruins from antiquity around the modern city reflects the austerity of the military oligarchy that ruled the Spartan city-state from the 6th to the 2nd century BCE.
2 days ago · In the Greek political context during ancient times, the problem of faction was understood as the formation of groups within a polis that would develop into their own group identity outside of and opposing that of the one shared in the broader polis, leading the group to act in their own interests against the larger whole of the city and thus ...
