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22 Jul 2020 27 minute read 2 comments YouveBeenGreeked
At the end of the sixth century BC, Cleisthenes is famous for instituting Ancient Athenian democracy as we know it. Yet the road to this form of government was a long one for the city-state. The previous century saw decades of economic, moral and pol...
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...
9 Jul 2020 2 minute read 4 comments Publish7
A fresh cut 'Choriatiki salad' or 'Greek salad' writes like a fairy tale in your mouth. Its wide range of tastes is a real sophisticated pleasure that explodes on your tongue and your palate. The sweetness of the tomatoes, the bitterness of the cucu...
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...
