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https://www.psychologie-heute.de/fileadmin/1933110251284301216.jpg God Kairos (lat. Caerus, other Greek. Καιρός) the ancient Greek god of a happy moment. Kairos...

TYRANTS of ARCHAIC GREECE - Athens, Corinth + Samos

The amount of tyrants that took control of a city in ancient Greece is near innumerable, so I've decided to limit this post to three cities I found to have the ...

28 OR 29 DAYS? A Roman History of FEBRUARY

As it's the 29th of February today, and as leap years only come around every 4 years, I decided to do a post on where this oddity in our calendar actually came ...

SOLON Part II - His Travels and Return to Athens

Part 1 has already been uploaded to my Steemit page - go check it out! :) - SOLON BEGINS HIS TRAVELSOnce all of Solon&x27;s laws were implemented, there wasn’t ...

SOLON Part I: Athenian Lawmaker, Traveller and Poet

BIOGRAPHYSolon was born in around 638 BC in Athens. His father was either Euphorion or, more likely, Execestides, a man of some wealth and political influence, ...

ATHENS AND SOLON: A BRIEF HISTORY

The world’s oldest and most stable democracy emerged in Ancient Athens. The current Greek capital, Athens has remained prosperous and cultural for millennia. Fi...

Leaked Footage Showing the Consequences of the Chinese Government's Response to CoViD-19

Before I begin, I need to leave a WARNING about the following video. Some scenes are not for the faint-hearted, especially animal lovers. --- Ok, now the CoViD-...

MY SPARTAN DRAWING

While I&x27;m working on my next blog post on Athens and the reforms of Solon (SPOILERS), here&x27;s a drawing I did a while back of a Spartan hoplite, for last...

LYCURGUS + THE REFORMATION OF SPARTA

“It occurred to me one day that Sparta, although one of the more thinly populated of the Greek states, was evidently the most powerful and most celebrated city ...

EMERGENCE OF THE CITY-STATE

EARLY COLONISATION Greek colonisation occurred in two stages. The first, centred around the 11th to 9th centuries, took the Greeks across the Greek mainland, th...

Archaic Greece Timeline (c.900 - 470's BC)

The history of the Archaic period of Greece is much more well documented and preserved for us today than any other part of Greek/Aegean history before it. With ...

The Greek Dark Age (c.1,150 - 800 BC)

(Possible routes of the Dorian Invasion, c.1,250 - 1,150 BC) For about 50 years, in around 1,200 BC, the major palace centres of Mycenaean culture were burnt to...

The First Greeks: The Mycenaeans (c.1,600 - 1,070 BC)

The Mycenaean Era of roughly 1,600 to 1,100 BC saw the rise of important palace centres, such as Mycenae, Pylos, Tiryns, Thebes, Iolkos and Athens. For Greece, ...

The Proto-Greeks: The Minoans + The First Inhabitants of the Greek World (c.3,000 - 1,450 BC)

In 1900, Sir Arthur Evans excavated the ancient city now known as Knossos, Crete, and further excavations continued onwards from there. The digs revealed an ear...

Basic Ancient Greek Language

NOTE: This blog is for understanding VERY BASIC Ancient Greek and will not delve deep into teaching you how to write/speak it at an advanced level; it's for bei...

Upcoming Blog Series: ANCIENT GREECE - From the Bronze Age to the Classical Age

For hundreds of years, the Greeks economically and culturally ruled most of the Mediterranean Sea, founding wealthy colonies from Spain in the West to Turkey in...