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n. 1 The Greek speaking world in ancient times, geographically referring not only to modern Greece and southern Balkan peninsula but also to areas of Hellenic culture that were settled during ancient times by Greeks: Cyprus, the Aegean coast of Ionia, southern Italian peninsula and Sicily (known as Magna Graecia) and the scattered Greek settlements on the coasts of what are now Albania, Bulgaria, Egypt, Libya, southern France, southern Spain, Catalonia, Georgia, Romania, and Ukraine. 2 The civilization that flourished around the Mediterranean Sea from the 3rd millennium to the 1st century BCE (including the first two European civilizations, Minoan and Mycenaean), known as the cradle of Western civilization.
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Ancient Greece was a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history that lasted from the Archaic period of the 8th to centuries BC to the end of antiquity ( AD). Immediately following this period was the beginning of the Early Middle Ages and the Byzantine era. Included in ancient Greece is the period of Classical Greece, which flourished during the 5th to 4th centuries BC. Classical Greece began with the era of the Persian Wars. Because of conquests by Alexander the Great of Macedonia, Hellenistic civilization flourished from Central Asia to the western end of the Mediterranean Sea.
Classical Greek culture, especially philosophy, had a powerful influence on the Roman Empire, which carried a version of it to many parts of the Mediterranean Basin and Europe. For this reason Classical Greece is generally considered to be the seminal culture which provided the foundation of modern Western culture and is considered as the cradle of Western civilization.
Usage examples of "ancient greece".
Dorcas could remember falling asleep to the sound of their voices as they sat, as likely as not, in the kitchen over ten-o'clock bowls of steaming chowder, arguing to their hearts' content over the modern Greece Markos had grown up in and the ancient Greece so dear to her father.
For what admirers of ancient Greece consider the Dark Ages was, in truth, the beginning of another period of Greek grandeur, that of Byzantium.
When we reflect on the fame of Thebes and Argos, of Sparta and Athens, we can scarcely persuade ourselves, that so many immortal republics of ancient Greece were lost in a single province of the Roman empire, which, from the superior influence of the Achaean league, was usually denominated the province of Achaia.
Everything is there: the nostalgia for ancient Greece and its ideals, discreet allusion to a lost love and to mystical consolation sought by the bereaved survivor, the haunting appeal of unknown lands and barbarous climes.
The eight books of the Persian, Vandalic, and Gothic wars, ^13 which are continued in the five books of Agathias, deserve our esteem as a laborious and successful imitation of the Attic, or at least of the Asiatic, writers of ancient Greece.
He justly observes, that ancient Greece might perhaps contain fifteen or twenty axyla or sanctuaries.
Let's think of things and ways they didn't have in ancient Greece.
In ancient Greece, the problem was not simply the brigands who haunted the roads and the pirates who infested the seas.
In ancient Greece, and in Greek tragedies, the amphora sometimes contained human ashes, you see, and the ignorant folk of Greece believed that if things didn’.
They would not have been considered handsome in ancient Greece, however.