Title: Empire Of Ancient Greece Author(s): Jean Kinney Williams Pages: 129 Publisher: Facts on File Publication date: 2005 Language: English Format: PDF ISBN-10: 0816055610 ISBN-13: Description: THE TERM “ANCIENT GREEKS” CAN REFER TO MANY CULTURES
and times in world history. The ancient Greeks include the warriors who
fought in the Trojan War in the 1200s B.C.E. and whose mythical stories, retold
by Homer, are considered the foundation of Western literature. They
also are the sophisticated (from the Greek word sophos, which means “wisdom”)
Athenians of what is known as Classical Greece, who gave us
democracy in the 400s B.C.E. and whose architecture and literature remain
an important part of our culture. And they are the Mediterranean peoples
who, in the two centuries before Rome began its rule of the Western and
near Eastern world in the 140s B.C.E., made ground-breaking contributions
to science and mathematics.
Title: Empire Of Ancient Greece