Classical Greece: Did you mean...?

A beautiful pond emerges from the waterfall deriving from Mt. Saos, Samothrace.

The landscape from the top of Mt. Chortiatis. In the background, the hinterland of the mountainous Chalcidice emerges. In antiquity, the mountain was called Cissus, which means ivy. The locals could have chosen the mountain's name either...

Acropolis Agora Greek Archaic Period Archon Areopagus Aristocracy Assembly Boule City-State Greek Classical Period Democracy Demos Diarchy Ephor Gerousia Helot Hetaireiai Labyrinth Laconicism Minoan Monarchy Mycenaean Oligarchy Ostracism...

Aesychlus Aristophanes Base Capital Chorus Comedy Corinthian column Dionysus Doric column Drama Entablature Entasis Euripides Frieze Ionic column Metope Pediment Philosophy Satyr play Shaft Skene Sophocles Tragedy Triglyph Socrates Plato...

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

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.

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.

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

The Episcopal Basilica at Dion in Macedonia (Greece) was first built in the 4th century CE along the road leading to Mount Olympus. It was expanded in the 5th century CE.