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! :)
21 May 2022 8 minute read 0 comments YouveBeenGreeked
Your kindness to the human race has earned you this.A god who would not bow to the gods’ anger - youTransgressing right, gave privileges to mortal men. These are the words of Aeschylus, the first of Ancient Greece’s great tragedians. He brought wit...
25 Apr 2022 16 minute read 5 comments YouveBeenGreeked
Given the growing power statement of Athens, plus the recent ongoings with the ostracism and murder of Pausanias following the Greek Counterattack War, Athens was becoming the dominant Greek power. As the head of the Delian League, Athens would now r...
18 Apr 2022 12 minute read 7 comments YouveBeenGreeked
Themistocles is often credited as being the predominant hero of the Greco-Persian Wars, having commanded troops at Marathon and leading the Greek navy at Cape Artemisium and Salamis. These exploits would earn him great renown and would pave the way f...
24 Feb 2022 13 minute read 4 comments YouveBeenGreeked
The Persian Invasions proved desperate wars for the Greeks at the start of the 5th century BC, bringing the homeland of democracy itself very close to its knees with the Ionian Revolt, and at famous battles such as Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis, Pla...
11 Dec 2021 13 minute read 8 comments YouveBeenGreeked
With Xerxes in full retreat back to the empire following his defeat at the Battle of Salamis, his general Mardonius was left in Greece, in charge of a vast army. While the Greek army campaigned to put him down, the victory at Salamis gave control of...
25 Nov 2021 26 minute read 2 comments YouveBeenGreeked
With his hopes for a successful conquest of Greece smashed on the waters off the coast of Salamis, Xerxes withdrew with the bulk of his forces back to the empire. Themistocles, meanwhile, was at the height of his popularity back in Athens. But the wa...
5 Nov 2021 17 minute read 2 comments YouveBeenGreeked
Xerxes has so far proven himself successful in his mission to capture Athens and conquer Greece, albeit at a cost; twenty-thousand soldiers and several close family members had been slaughtered at the narrow pass of Thermopylae by Leonidas's allied G...
18 Oct 2021 7 minute read 0 comments YouveBeenGreeked
Leonidas and his three-hundred Spartans had fallen, with the rest of the Greek troops either dead or withdrawn. With no reason to remain where they were, Themistocles pulled his navy back South towards Athens to stage a desperate last defence at sea....
8 Oct 2021 24 minute read 7 comments YouveBeenGreeked
For such a comparatively small part of the world, the Greeks had so far colonised far and wide, produced great writing and epic poetry, and founded democracy. Entanglement in the affairs of those larger and more powerful than themselves had landed th...
27 Sep 2021 23 minute read 4 comments YouveBeenGreeked
Details on the Greco-Persian Wars were primarily recorded by the 5th century BC Greek historian, Herodotus, and his work, The Histories, is among the best narratives in world literature, and has been a primary source for my works here. For the Greeks...
