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 Jul 2020 33 minute read 0 comments YouveBeenGreeked
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 wondering how this could have happened. But when I considered the...
17 Jul 2020 8 minute read 2 comments YouveBeenGreeked
The hoplite proved to be an effective citizen soldier of the Greek Poleis, able to defend their homes and cities from the outside world, and indeed from other Greeks. However their panoply alone did not make them the great and iconic soldiers they we...
16 Jul 2020 7 minute read 2 comments YouveBeenGreeked
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 importance to those i...
12 Jul 2020 4 minute read 6 comments YouveBeenGreeked
Before the birth of democracy in Athens 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 the ancient world; Monarchies, the rule of one...
11 Jul 2020 16 minute read 4 comments YouveBeenGreeked
When it comes to Ancient Greek storytelling, there are perhaps no better known tales than that of Achilles and the ten-year Siege of Troy, written of extensively in the epic poem known as The Iliad, and the return journey from Troy to Ithaca by King...
10 Jul 2020 17 minute read 2 comments YouveBeenGreeked
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. The earliest, most influential and perhaps the most well known of ancient Greece's writing is that of the Epic, p...
9 Jul 2020 7 minute read 0 comments YouveBeenGreeked
Like nearly every civilisation in history, the Minoans and the Greek Mycenaeans communicated via the art of writing. Come the Bronze Age Collapse and the resulting Greek Dark Age, the art of writing is thought to have been lost for around three-hundr...
8 Jul 2020 10 minute read 0 comments YouveBeenGreeked
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 though was a Greek civilisation of many dialects, cultures...
7 Jul 2020 7 minute read 1 comment YouveBeenGreeked
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 economy was wiped out of existence, politically and mil...
6 Jul 2020 5 minute read 0 comments YouveBeenGreeked
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 the Bronze Age, thought to have begun for the Greeks in ar...
