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! :)
10 Jul 2020 17 minute read 2 comments YouveBeenGreeked
Check out my previous blog on Archaic Greek Writing Greece’s earliest surviving literacy is poetic; it was the 8th century BC that saw the advent of writing in a form we’d recognise today. An epic is a form of poem common in ancient Greece, and...
9 Jul 2020 7 minute read 0 comments YouveBeenGreeked
Check out my previous blog on the colonisation and culture of the Archaic Greeks Greek inscriptions were functional. Scripts were either logographic (words) or ideographic (ideas). This unfortunately meant that the early “alphabet” of Mycenaean...
8 Jul 2020 10 minute read 0 comments YouveBeenGreeked
Check out my previous post on the Greek Dark Age The Bronze Age Collapse and the subsequent Greek Dark Ages threw the Greek world into a period of little communication, writing, knowledge and scientific advancements. What blossomed from it thoug...
7 Jul 2020 7 minute read 0 comments YouveBeenGreeked
Check out my previous post on the Mycenaeans For about 50 years, in around 1,200 BC, the major palace centres of Mycenaean culture were burnt to the ground, with the major remnants of the civilization following suit in 1,150 BC. The palace econo...
6 Jul 2020 5 minute read 0 comments YouveBeenGreeked
Check out my previous post on the Minoan civilization The Mycenaean Era of roughly 1,600 to 1,070 BC saw the rise of important palace centres, such as Mycenae, Pylos, Tiryns, Thebes, Iolkos and Athens. For Greece, this era was the final stage of...
3 Jul 2020 5 minute read 2 comments YouveBeenGreeked
Greece is undoubtedly the cradle of most of Western civilisation today, and its history spans back several millennia to the Mycenaean Greeks, who famously fought at Troy. However, before even these ancient Greeks flourished, another peoples of the Gr...
