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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.
Ancient Greek cuisine was characterized by its frugality and was founded on the "Mediterranean triad": wheat, olive oil, and wine, with meat being rarely eaten and fish being more common. [14] It was Archestratos in 320 B.C. who wrote the first cookbook in history. Greece has a culinary tradition of some 4,000 years. [15]
The Parthenon, in Athens, a temple to Athena. Classical Greece was a period of around 200 years (the 5th and 4th centuries BC) in ancient Greece, [1] marked by much of the eastern Aegean and northern regions of Greek culture (such as Ionia and Macedonia) gaining increased autonomy from the Persian Empire; the peak flourishing of democratic Athens; the First and Second Peloponnesian Wars; the ...
Not everyone treats the Classical Greek and Hellenic periods as distinct—some writers treat the Ancient Greek civilization as a continuum running until the proliferation of Christianity in the 3rd century. [citation needed] Ancient Greece is considered by many historians to be the foundational culture of Western civilization. Greek culture ...
The language of administration shifted to Mycenaean Greek and material culture shows increased mainland influence, reflecting the rise of a Greek-speaking elite. [ 27 ] [ 30 ] In Late Minoan IIIC (c. 1200-1075 BC), coinciding with the wider Late Bronze Age collapse , coastal settlements were abandoned in favor of defensible locations on higher ...
Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή, Hellēnikḗ; [hellɛːnikɛ́ː]) [1] includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek ( c. 1400–1200 BC ), Dark Ages ( c. 1200–800 BC ), the Archaic or Homeric ...
The church of Hagia Sophia (on the skyline) at Monemvasia, classed as an ancient (immovable) monument [1] [2]. The cultural heritage (Greek: πολιτιστική κληρονομιά) of Greece, as defined by Law 4858/2021, includes archaeological sites, historical sites, monuments both immovable and movable, and intangible cultural heritage.
Man and woman wearing the himation Kylix, the most common drinking vessel in ancient Greece The Parthenon, shows the common structural features of Ancient Greek architecture: crepidoma, columns, entablature, and pediment Ancient Greek theatre in Delos Odeon of Herodes Atticus Portrait of Demosthenes, statesman and orator of ancient Athens ...