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Agamemnon was the king of Mycenae and the leader of the Greek army in the Trojan War of Homers Illiad. He was known as a selfish king, but a good warrior.
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Homer is the assumed author of the Iliad, the writer of two epic powers that are the main parts of Ancient Greece literature.
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The ancient Olympic Games started as a festival, then progressed more to a competition to honor Zeus.
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This law was created by king Draco for the Athenian people. It was revised from the oral law by Athenian aristocrats.
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Darius the great was the third king in Persia, he remain in this position from 552 BCE until he died in 486 BCE.
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A Tyrant occurred in Athens in the 6th century BCE. Peisistratos led some tyrants and had many failed attempts to try to gain power. He led until he died in 527.
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Xerxes was the four th king of the Achaemenid Empire, lasting from 486 to 465 BCE. He is known most for the invasion of Greece from all across the hellespont.
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The main ideas of democracy and constitution as a form of government started in ancient Athens in about 508 BCE. Many city states had different forms of government.
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The first Persian war was a series of battles between the Achaemenid Empire and city states in Greece. This all started at about 499 BCE and didn’t end until 449 BCE.
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Pericles was a very influential statesman in Ancient Greece. He was the general of Athens during the golden age.
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This was the first Persian invasion into Greece, the battle occurred on the mountain of plain northeastern Attica.
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The second Persian war happened because King Xerxes wanted conquer all of Greece. They came back to fight again because they had lost the first time. King Xerxes had planned his second attack for years.
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This battle was happened between an alliance of Greece’s city states, Led by king Leonidas l from Sparta, along with the Achaemenid empire of Xerxes. This lasted for 3 days
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The Parthenon is a temple on the Athenian acropolis in Greece, which was built to honor the goddess Athena. The temple was officially finished in 432 BCE
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This war was led by Athens against Peloponnesian people whom were led by Sparta. The Peloponnesian league resulted in a victory.
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Plato was a philosopher from Athens, during the classical period in Ancient Greece. Athens founded the Platonist school of thought.
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The Catapult was one of the most effective contraptions used in war by the Greeks.
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Socrates was a scholar, teacher and a philosopher in Ancient Greece. His socratic strategy laid the blueprints for western systems of logic and philosophy
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Plato is the founder of this academy. It lasted through =out the Hellenistic period, until the death of philo of Larissa in 83 BCE
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Aristotle was a Greek philosopher during the classical period, He was taught by Plato, he also founded the Lyceum (the schools philosophy)
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Phillip ll of Macedonio was the king of Macedonio from 359 BC until he was assassinated in 336 BC
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Alexander the Great was a king of Ancient Greece. He succeeded his father Philip ll to the throne at 20.
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This battle was fought between the Macedonians and an alliance formed by Greek city states.
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The League of Corinth was created after the battle of chaeronea, to monitor the military use in the war of Greece against Persia.
