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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...
16 Jul 2020 1 minute read 0 comments SmileToBeFree
This is the second of a series of short articles and accompanying mobile documentaries, in which I hope to introduce some of the historical facts and historical fictions, interwoven into the hidden gem that is the Dolaucothi Gold Mines. Now in the ca...
16 Jul 2020 2 minute read 0 comments trumpman
Today's coin is part of the larger collection of old Greek coins I mentioned a couple days ago. Click here to read the story of how it ended up on my hands. First some photos: So, this little fella is made of copper, weights almost 9.62 g and w...
14 Jul 2020 1 minute read 0 comments trumpman
It's been a while since I posted something from my treasury, hasn't it? So, today I have something intriguing. It's a coin that until very recently I thought was made of silver. It's shiny after all! But first, a little on how I got my hands on it....
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...
11 Jul 2020 6 minute read 1 comment ilodz24hd
google translate Hitler's women is a very interesting chapter in Adolf's life. The more information he attempts to obtain on this subject, the more questions and riddles are born. Some sources suggest that the Chancellor of the Third Reich was gay, a...
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...
