“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 in Greece, and I fell to wondering how this

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

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 a lot to cover, it's definitely best to first

(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 ground, with the major remnants of the

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, this era was the final stage of the Bronze

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 earlier non-Greek palace cultured civilization

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 being able to understand letters and simple

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 the East, and from Egypt to the Black Sea.