Ancient Greece

There are many resources on this site on ancient Greece. Here is a list of topics for people studying Greek culture and literature, as well as history. This includes tips on spelling and technical terms, major events in ancient history, a quick look at differences between ancient Greece and Rome, and maps. Major Topics in Ancient Greek...

Information on the name, location, cities, islands, mountains, boundaries, and countries surrounding Greece. Most is still relevant for the modern country.

Browse through this ancient Greek timeline for more than a millennium, from prehistory through the absorption of Greece into the Roman Empire.

The Greeks didn't use that term to refer to themselves. Here is a quick look at what is meant by the Greeks in ancient history.

Peter Green explains the attitude of the Classical Greeks towards the Macedonians.

Many of the ancient Greeks' discoveries and inventions are still used today, although some of their ideas have been overturned. At least one, the discovery that the sun is the center of the solar system, was ignored and then rediscovered.

Contents of "A Smaller History of Greece - A History of Greece From the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest," by William Smith (1813 - 1893).

Logographers in ancient times wrote stories about history and geography. Coming before Herodotus, they weren't historians proper. They were mostly Ionian Greeks. Ancient Aegean Maps Maps showing Greece and the ancient Aegean area. Also see: Geography on the divisions of ancient Greece and some of the major geological features and ...