The myth of Persephone and Demeter begins with an abduction. As the young goddess is picking flowers with the maidens of Oceanos, she is forcibly taken into the Underworld by Hades with the help of hi…
Ancient Greece
Are the Hanging Gardens of Babylon real? One of the seven ancient wonders of the world created by King Nebuchadnezzar for his homesick sick wife, Queen Amytis. Amytis was from a land with trees, mount…
Ancient Greece was very mountainous, making city-states very isolated, it was also surrounded by The Aegean Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Ionian Sea. Ancient Greece used terraced farming to grow…
The Bronze Age was a prosperous time in Ancient Greece, a time that led to the emergence of the Mucenaeans, a major power in the Peloponnese. The Mycenaeans, by the end of the 14th Century BCE, had co…
The polis was a group of city-states. They were extremely decentralized. There were so many different city-states that all had their own form of government. The polis was created because of the mounta…
Over time, the theatre was changed and developed by forward-thinking playwrights. One such playwright, Aeschylus, introduced the concept of using a second character so that dialogue and the interactio…
The Ancient Greek Olympics were very serious and time consuming athletic competitions. The competitions took place among the representatives of each city-state and were in honor of one of their gods, …
