in its literature, art, philosophy and politics.
Greece country profile - Overview - BBC News - 0 views
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mainland with over 1,400 islands,
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The global financial crisis of the late 2000s hit Greece particularly hard, as the legacy of high public spending and widespread tax evasion combined with the credit crunch and the resulting recession to leave the country with a crippling debt burden.
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What did the ancient Greeks do for us? | History Extra - 0 views
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To say that we owe a lot to the ancient Greeks is nothing new. Everywhere we look, we see echoes of that world in our own: democracy, philosophy, art, architecture, science, sport, to name but a few.
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Our very sense of the ‘Classical’ from the Renaissance onwards, has been based on the ‘fact’ that ancient Greek temples and buildings were made out of marble and stood shining off-white in the sunlight. But ever since the first modern travellers visited Greece in the 17th century, we have discovered evidence that this is, in fact, completely wrong. Greek temples were painted bright blue, red, green: our very definition of the opposite of Classical!
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By the seventh century AD, for example, the term 'democracy' had a ‘mob-rule’ feel about it, which made ancient Athens a very unpopular model for any society, right through until the until the late 18th century. In the English Civil War, for instance, Cromwell was encouraged to follow the example of the ancient Spartans, not the Athenians.
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Athens, Ancient Greek City-State - Ancient Greece for Kids - 0 views
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Before the Greek dark ages, Athens was a small village, home to a tribe of Ionian people. After the Greek dark ages, Athens grew rapidly until Athens was one of the two most powerful city-states in the ancient Greek world. (The other was Sparta.)
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Hippocrates | Hippokratis, Ippokratis, Ιπποκράτης | Greece.com - 1 views
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Hippocrates was an Ancient Greek doctor and is considered to be one of the most prominent figures in the history of Medicine
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lthough there is a plethora of information concerning the life of Hippocrates, most of them are false
greeksgeeks - Ancient Greece Tools and Technology - 2 views
BBC - History - Ancient History in depth: The Democratic Experiment - 1 views
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Take politics for example: apart from the word itself (from polis, meaning city-state or community) many of the other basic political terms in our everyday vocabulary are borrowed from the ancient Greeks: monarchy, aristocracy, tyranny, oligarchy and - of course - democracy.
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demokratia
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It meant literally 'people-power'
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Welcome to My 7th Grade Adventure - History with Holman - 2 views
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And in the middle of the Classic Age of Greece, it was important for Greeks to travel and trade.
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interest as each citizen grabbed a small stone from a large pile and started dropping it in two separate piles:
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Alexander the Great [ushistory.org] - 1 views
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A great conqueror, in 13 short years he amassed the largest empire in the entire ancient world — an empire that covered 3,000 miles.
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Not bad for a kid who became the King of Macedon at the age of 20.
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Homer - Ancient Greece for Kids! - 1 views
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When Homer was born, the Greeks had just recently learned how to use the alphabet from the Phoenicians. Homer used the alphabet to write down two long epic poems called the Iliad and the Odyssey. Probably Homer didn't make up these stories, or even the words, himself. Poets or bards had been going around Greece telling these stories for hundreds of years already. But Homer wrote them down, and gave them their final form.
Greek Government -- Ancient History Encyclopedia - 1 views
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The Constitution of the Athenians, one written by Aristotle or one of his pupils and the other attributed (by some) to Xenophon. Other sources which discuss politics and government include Aristotle’s Politics and the historical works of Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon.
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Athens’ constitution is called a democracy because it respects the interests not of the minority but of the whole people.
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Any male citizen 18 years or over could speak (at least in theory) and vote in the assembly, usually with a simple show of hands.
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Parthenon - 2 views
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Its massive foundations were made of limestone, and the columns were made of Pentelic marble, a material that was utilized for the first time.
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The Parthenon is a temple of the Doric order with eight columns at the façade, and seventeen columns at the flanks
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