WebClassical antiquity (also the classical era, classical period or classical age) is the period of cultural history between the 8th century BC and the 5th century AD centred on the Mediterranean Sea, comprising the interlocking civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome known as the Greco-Roman world.It is the period in which both Greek and Roman …

WebGreece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe.It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa.Greece shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the northeast. The Aegean Sea lies to the east of the …

WebAncient Greek comedy was one of the final three principal dramatic forms in the theatre of classical Greece (the others being tragedy and the satyr play). Athenian comedy is conventionally divided into three periods: Old Comedy, Middle Comedy, and New Comedy.Old Comedy survives today largely in the form of the eleven surviving plays of …

WebAncient Greek theatre was a theatrical culture that flourished in ancient Greece from 700 BC. The city-state of Athens, which became a significant cultural, political, and religious place during this period, was its centre, where the theatre was institutionalised as part of a festival called the Dionysia, which honoured the god Dionysus. Tragedy (late 500 BC), …

WebHistory (from Ancient Greek ἱστορία (historía) 'inquiry; knowledge acquired by investigation') is the study and the documentation of the past. Events before the invention of writing systems are considered prehistory. " History" is an umbrella term comprising past events as well as the memory, discovery, collection, organization, presentation, and interpretation of …

WebGreek may refer to: . Greece. Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: . Greeks, an ethnic group.; Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.. Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all known varieties of Greek.; Mycenaean Greek, most ancient attested form of the language (16th …

WebBactria (/ ˈ b æ k t r i ə /; Bactrian: βαχλο, Bakhlo), or Bactriana, was an ancient region in Central Asia in Amu Darya's middle stream, stretching north of the Hindu Kush, west of the Pamirs and south of the Gissar range, covering the northern part of Afghanistan, southwestern Tajikistan and southeastern Uzbekistan.. Called "beautiful Bactria, …

WebWestern culture, also known as Western civilization, Occidental culture, or Western society, is the heritage of social norms, ethical values, traditional customs, belief systems, political systems, artifacts and technologies of the Western world.The term applies beyond Europe to countries and cultures whose histories are strongly connected to Europe by immigration, …

WebAnimal sacrifice is the ritual killing and offering of one or more animals, usually as part of a religious ritual or to appease or maintain favour with a deity.Animal sacrifices were common throughout Europe and the Ancient Near East until the spread of Christianity in Late Antiquity, and continue in some cultures or religions today. Human sacrifice, where it …