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Jan 24, 2023 · Taken together, these 4 historical periods (or eras) represent over a millennium of ancient Greek history, and highlight the historical significant eras of ancient Greek art, culture, government, mythology and society. The Archaic Period of Ancient Greece (800-480 BCE)
Aug 13, 2024 · Ancient Greek civilization, the period following Mycenaean civilization, which ended about 1200 BCE, to the death of Alexander the Great, in 323 BCE. It was a period of political, philosophical, artistic, and scientific achievements that formed a legacy with unparalleled influence on Western civilization.
Greek literature - Ancient, Epic, Drama: The first great writer of history was Herodotus of Halicarnassus, who was also a geographer and anthropologist. The theme of his history, written in large part for Athenian readers, is the clash between Europe and Asia culminating in the Persian War. The account of the war itself, which occupies roughly the second half of the work, must have been ...
Jan 8, 2014 · The rest of the document outlines different periods of ancient Greek literature and some of the most important authors from those eras. It also discusses how ancient Greek culture continues to influence modern society through concepts like democracy, the alphabet, libraries, the Olympics, and architectural styles. Read less
Greek literature - Epic, Drama, Historiography: Almost all of the great mass of Hellenistic prose—and later prose, historical, scholarly, and scientific—has perished. Among historians Polybius (c. 200–c. 118 bc), the most outstanding, has survived in a fragmentary condition. Present at Rome when it was succumbing to the first influences of Greek literature, he wrote mainly of events of ...
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Aug 8, 2012 · In the Archaic Period there were vast changes in Greek language, society, art, architecture, and politics.These changes occurred due to the increasing population of Greece and its increasing amount trade, which in turn led to colonization and a new age of intellectual ideas, the most important of which (at least to the modern Western World) was Democracy.
