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2 hours ago · Ancient Greece ( Greek: Ἑλλάς, romanized : Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity ( c. 600 AD ), that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and other territories.
- Greek Dark Ages
The Greek Dark Ages (c. 1200 BC - 800 BC), were earlier...
- Medieval Greece
Medieval Greece refers to geographic components of the area...
- Greek Mythos
Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the...
- Greek Dark Ages
2 days ago · Hecate [a] is a goddess in ancient Greek religion and mythology, most often shown holding a pair of torches, a key, or snakes, or accompanied by dogs, [4] and in later periods depicted as three-formed or triple-bodied. She is variously associated with crossroads, night, light, magic, protection from witchcraft, drugs, the Moon, graves, and ghosts.
- Paired torches, dogs, serpents, keys, knives, and lions.
5 days ago · The Greek Orthodox Church, which is directed by a synod sitting in Athens, was a main force in keeping alive the Greek language, tradition, and literature when such things were forbidden, and most people still support it.
4 days ago · Attikí (ancient Greek: Attica), the area around the capital, is now home to about one-third of the country’s entire population. A Greek legend has it that God distributed soil through a sieve and used the stones that remained to build Greece.
5 days ago · The religion of ancient Greece from the 8th to the 3rd century BC, with a well-defined pantheon of deities including the supreme ruler Zeus; his consort Hera; Athena, the goddess of wisdom; Hermes, the god of war; and many others, who lived on Mount Olympus and were closely inter-related. Roman Religion.
4 days ago · From ancient Greek philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle to later notable philosophers such as René Descartes and Immanuel Kant, philosophy's great thinkers have approached sensitive ethical and existential issues from a variety of different angles.
