http://www.yasou.org/ancient/summary.htm Accessed February 20, 2011 Ancient Greece - Brief Summary For centuries Greece has exerted an enchantment over the imaginations of men. The Romans, who incorporated Greece into their empire, and in the process did not hesitate to sack its cities, were deeply impressed by Greece.

13/11/2013 · Greece is a country in southeastern Europe, known in Greek as Hellas or Ellada, and consisting of a mainland and an archipelago of islands. Ancient Greece is the birthplace of Western philosophy ( Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle ), literature ( Homer and Hesiod ), mathematics ( Pythagoras and Euclid ), history ( Herodotus ), drama ( Sophocles, ...

History of Greece: Introduction. The ancient Classical and Hellenistic eras of Greece are undoubtedly the most splendid, having left behind a host of ideas, concepts, and art to provide the foundation of what we call “western civilization”. However, the two previous millennia that lead to these ancient eras, as well as the other two millennia that ...

ancient Greek civilization, The period between the end of the Mycenaean civilization (1200 bce) and the death of Alexander the Great (323 bce) that significantly influenced later Western culture in politics, philosophy, and art. The Acropolis, Athens.

09/09/2021 · The term Ancient, or Archaic, Greece refers to the years 700-480 B.C., not the Classical Age (480-323 B.C.) known for its art, architecture and philosophy. Archaic Greece saw advances in art ...