Ancient Greece Encyclopaedia (Encyclopedia, modern)
Below we present you publications and collections of the Classical greece history, its myths, sity-staes, phylosophers, and analitical materials.
Introduction to Ancient Greece History
The introduction to Classical Greece (Ancient Greece) is an article describing the Greece map, listing the main famous city-states, all main stages of Greece’s development, the relations between the city-states, the Greek wars, and it contains the library-map with links to deeper research of the paragraph’s topics.
Ancient Greek's General Social Structure and Economy Review
The article explains the structure of the Ancient Greek economy and its social organisation, detailing the valuation of market goods within Greek society, the configuration of markets across the poleis, and the prices observed in these classical economic systems.
Ancient Greece: Metrological Approaches of the City-States
The publication briefly compares the metrological and standardisation approaches of Ancient Greece across its major poleis (city-states).
Ancient Greek's Philosophers
The section contains publications about the classics’ Greek philosophers, their biographies, and brief descriptions of the concepts declared by the philosophical schools. The collection includes: Socrates (c. 470–399 BCE), Plato (c. 428–348 BCE), Aristotle (384–322 BCE), Pythagoras (c. 570–495 BCE), Democritus (c. 460–370 BCE), Epicurus (341–270 BCE), Zeno of Citium (c. 334–262 BCE), Diogenes of Sinope (c. 412–323 BCE), and others. Each publication in this collection contains a brief biographical overview and only a declaration of the concept each school stands for. The comprehensive study of philosophy is not a historical subject of research, but the initial concepts are included in the tutorials.
Ancient Greece Myths, and Mythology
This section of publications includes Ancient Greece’s myths, and so may be read directly as tales. At the same time, the section proposes several analytical materials that may be used as tutorials within educational processes, or read for a more complex understanding of Greek mythology. Included myths: Theogony, Titanomachy, Gigantomachy, the Birth of Athena, Prometheus and the Gift of Fire, Pandora, Europa, Io, Ganymede, the Eleusinian Cycle, Dionysus, Apollo’s myths, Artemis and Actaeon, Hermes’ birth, Aphrodite and Adonis, Eros and Psyche, the Chains of Prometheus, Poseidon’s contests, Hades and the Underworld, Heracles’ Twelve Labours, Theseus, Jason and the Argonauts, Medea, Perseus, Bellerophon, Atalanta, Orpheus and Eurydice, Cadmus, the Oedipus Cycle, the Trojan Cycle, the Odyssey Cycle, and others. All myths are quotations from the sources, translated and adapted to modern reader texts.
Ancient Greece City-states
This is a section that includes the main poleis (city-states) in Ancient Greece representations. Each state consists of a subsection describing the state’s social structure, economy, administrative governing policy, and the developmental processes the polis underwent. The states present in the library: Corinth, Megara, Argos, Thebes, Syracuse, Miletus, Ephesus, Rhodes, Chalcis & Eretria, Delphi & Olympia, Mytilene, Byzantium, Sicyon & Aegina, and of course, Athens & Sparta.