When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. History of Athens - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Athens

    Athens is one of the oldest named cities in the world, having been continuously inhabited for perhaps 5,000 years. Situated in southern Europe, Athens became the leading city of ancient Greece in the first millennium BC, and its cultural achievements during the 5th century BC laid the foundations of Western civilization.

  3. Classical Athens - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Athens

    The city of Athens (Ancient Greek: Ἀθῆναι, Athênai [a.tʰɛ̂ː.nai̯]; Modern Greek: Αθήναι, Athine [a.ˈθi.ne̞] or, more commonly and in singular, Αθήνα, Athina [a.'θi.na]) during the classical period of ancient Greece (480–323 BC) [1] was the major urban centre of the notable polis of the same name, located in Attica ...

  4. Greek mythology - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_mythology

    Thus, Greek mythology unfolds as a phase in the development of the world and of humans. [19]: 11 While self-contradictions in these stories make an absolute timeline impossible, an approximate chronology may be discerned. The resulting mythological "history of the world" may be divided into three or four broader periods:

  5. Myrmidons - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrmidons

    An etiological myth of their origins, simply expanding upon their supposed etymology—the name in Classical Greek was interpreted as "ant-people", from myrmedon (Ancient Greek: μῠρμηδών, murmēdṓn, plural: μῠρμηδόνες, murmēdónes), which means "ant-nest"—was first mentioned by Ovid in the Metamorphoses.

  6. Ancient Greece - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece

    Ancient Greece (Ancient Greek: Ἑλλάς, romanized: Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilisation, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity (c. 600 AD), that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and communities.

  7. Athena - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athena

    The Acropolis at Athens (1846) by Leo von Klenze.Athena's name probably comes from the name of the city of Athens. [4] [5]Athena is associated with the city of Athens. [4] [6] The name of the city in ancient Greek is Ἀθῆναι (Athȇnai), a plural toponym, designating the place where—according to myth—she presided over the Athenai, a sisterhood devoted to her worship. [5]

  8. Pandion (hero) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandion_(hero)

    Pandion (/ ˈ p æ n d i ə n / or / ˈ p æ n d i ɒ n /; Ancient Greek: Πανδίων) was the eponymous hero of the Attic tribe Pandionis, which was created as part of the tribal reforms of Cleisthenes at the end of the sixth century BC. [1] He is usually assumed to be one of the two legendary kings of Athens, Pandion I or Pandion II.

  9. Amazons - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazons

    The Amazons (Ancient Greek: Ἀμαζόνες Amazónes, singular Ἀμαζών Amazōn; in Latin Amāzon, -ŏnis) were a people in Greek mythology, portrayed in a number of ancient epic poems and legends, such as the Labours of Heracles, the Argonautica and the Iliad. They were female warriors and hunters, known for their physical agility ...