While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...

The ancient Greek city of Thebes played a central role in Greek history, appearing in many of the legends of Greek mythology.

The agoras of the ancient Greek city-states were open areas for people to assemble for everything from political gatherings to public debates. Ancient Agora is the most popular of its kind ...

notes, biblio., index. $49.95 / £42.00. ISBN:0691155380 A Comprehensive History of the Ancient Greek 'City-States' that Goes Beyond the famous places like Athens or Sparta The city-state (polis in ...

On an Egyptian desert rock ridge west of Alexandria and between the Mediterranean sea and Lake Mariout is Kom el-Nugus, an ...

And each city-state has its own money ... of Miletus - one of the most important women in Athens - who introduces us to the city-states of Ancient Greece and shares facts about the daily life ...

In ancient Greece, agriculture was the dominant form of life ... which is said to have occurred around the sixth century BCE in the mountains nearby. The city-state of Athens had an efficient trading ...

An 1888 illustration shows a bust of the ancient Greek historian and general Thucydides ... of Thermopylae received such scorn from their city-state for having lived through a defeat that they ...

About 2,500 years ago Greece was one of the most important places in the ancient world. The Greeks were great thinkers, warriors, writers, actors, athletes, artists, architects and politicians.