Ancient Greece: Did you mean...?

In this episode of The Ultimate Fashion History, "it's all Greek to me"! And it will be to you, too, as we look at clothing in The Minoan, Mycenaean, Hellenic, and Hellenistic eras. Enjoy.

In the video below, Museum of Fine Arts curator Phoebe Segal explains how ancient coins tell us about the trade routes and economic patterns of their time. For more CitiesX content, sign-up for the course on edX: https://www.edx.org/course/citiesx-past-present-future-urban-life-harvardx-urban101x...

A map of the political structure of Greece in the Archaic Age (ca. 750 - 490 BC).

Map based on Description of Greece by Pausanias. The map shows which parts of Greece each book in the work describes.

A map showing classical Greece and the Aegaean islands.

Map epicting locations described in Pausanias' Description of Greece, as found in the version translated and with a commentary by J. G. Frazer. Photograph by the British Library.

The Polygonal Building in Dion (Greece), located at the intersection of the main cardo and the decumanus (east-west road), is thought to have been a palaestra due to a mosaic depicting wrestlers that was found in one of the rooms.

Temple of the local fertility goddess Aphaia, Aegina, Greece, c. 500 BCE.

Manuscript of Pausanias' Description of Greece at the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence, Italy, dating from 1485.

The Beginnings of Historic Greece. 700 - 600 B.C.