9/24/2023 0 Comments Olympia odyssey one-piece suit![]() ![]() The Trojan War began when Paris, Prince of Troy, ran away with Helen, wife of King Menelaus of Sparta. The Odyssey, also by Homer, is the tale of the adventures of a Greek soldier named Odysseus, after the war. The story of their war with the Greeks is told in The Iliad, a long poem dating from the 700s BC, and said to be by a storyteller named Homer. The Trojans lived in the city of Troy, in what is now Turkey. This is what historians call “Classical” Greece. This was the start of “Archaic” Greek civilization.Īround 480 BC the “golden age” of Greece began. This lasted until the 800s BC when the Greeks set off by sea to explore and set up colonies. After the Mycenaean age ended, about 1100 BC, Greece entered a “Dark Age”. They were soldiers from mainland Greece, and were the Greeks who fought Troy in the 1200s BC. The Minoan civilization ended about 1450 BC.Īfter the Minoans came the Mycenaean. Minos and other Minoan kings grew rich from trade, and built fine palaces. Suggested activity: Watch the Film Alexander When did Greek civilization begin?Ībout 3000 BC, there lived on the island of Crete a group of people called Minoans. Alexander led his army to conquer not just Greece but an empire that reached as far as Afghanistan and India. He was Alexander the Great, from Macedonia. Only a very powerful ruler could control all Greece. Athens, Sparta, Corinth and Olympia were four of these city-states. Sometimes the city-states fought one another sometimes they joined together against a bigger enemy, the Persian Empire. There was not one country called “Ancient Greece.” Instead, there were small ‘city-states’. ![]()
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