Historical educational posts on Ancient Greek history. I'll be covering Greek history stretching from the Greek Bronze Age and the days of Achilles and Troy, to the Hellenistic Age of Alexander and Cleopatra, covering topics ranging from daily city life to all-out warfare. I'll also be looking a lot into Iranian/Persian history, and their infamous conflicts with the Greeks throughout history. All feedback, positive and/or negative, is very welcome. Hope ya learn plenty-a-stuff! :)
1 Aug 2020 18 minute read 2 comments YouveBeenGreeked
Check out my previous blog on tyrants and tyrannies of Ancient Greece [ABOVE: A modern relief of Kleisthenes, now at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus] The world’s first and, arguably, most stable form of democratic rule was first developed in At...
26 Jul 2020 21 minute read 4 comments YouveBeenGreeked
Check out my previous post on Ancient Athens The amount of tyrants that took control of a city in ancient Greece is near innumerable, so I've decided to limit this post to three cities I found to have the most interesting stories of being ruled...
25 Jul 2020 4 minute read 2 comments YouveBeenGreeked
Check out my previous post on the poet and lawmaker Solon and his travels INTRODUCTION The world’s oldest and most stable democracy emerged in Ancient Athens. The current Greek capital, Athens has remained prosperous and cultural for millennia....
23 Jul 2020 13 minute read 0 comments YouveBeenGreeked
Go and check out my previous blog on Solon's political reforms in Athens SOLON'S TRAVELS Once all of Solon's laws were implemented, there wasn’t a day that went by in which he didn’t receive an audience expressing their approval or disproval of...
22 Jul 2020 26 minute read 2 comments YouveBeenGreeked
Check out my previous post on Lycurgus and the Reformation of Sparta BIOGRAPHY [ABOVE: Copy of an original Greek bust of Solon, 110 BC, now at the National Archaeological Museum, Naples] Solon was born in around 638 BC in Athens. His father was...
21 Jul 2020 32 minute read 0 comments YouveBeenGreeked
INTRODUCTION [Xenophon, "The Constitution of the Spartans"] It occurred to me one day that Sparta, although one of the more thinly populated of the Greek states, was evidently the most powerful and most celebrated city in Greece, and I fell to wonde...
17 Jul 2020 8 minute read 2 comments YouveBeenGreeked
Check out my previous blog on the Hoplite infantrymen. INTRODUCTION The heavy armour and poor visibility of the hoplite was a disadvantage, but this was balanced out by the way hoplites fought together in war; A phalanx formation (phalanx meanin...
16 Jul 2020 7 minute read 2 comments YouveBeenGreeked
INTRODUCTION War exists in all. A warrior’s status in Archaic Greece, and his parts to play in justifying and maintaining a collection of economic benefits, ethical values and political institutions, are already clear. Metal trading, and its importan...
12 Jul 2020 4 minute read 6 comments YouveBeenGreeked
Check out my previous blog on the poems of Homer Before the birth of democracy in the late sixth century BC, the Greek world - still a patchwork of small, independent city-states - still included old forms of governmental rule used throughout th...
11 Jul 2020 16 minute read 2 comments YouveBeenGreeked
Check out my previous blog on the poems of Hesiod [ABOVE: Bust of Homer from Rome, 2nd century AD, based on a Hellenistic original] When it comes to Ancient Greek storytelling, there are perhaps no better known tales than that of Achilles and t...
