Greece
There are 1361 items in Greece:
Chios, Coin with a sphinx and an amphora |
Chronology
Peloponnesian War: name of the conflict between Athens and Sparta that broke out in 431 and continued, with an interruption, until 404. Athens was forced to dismantle its empire. The war however, was not decisive, because within a decade, the…Cicero on Damocles
The Roman politician and philosopher Cicero tells the famous story about the tyrant Dionysius II of Syracuse and his courtier Damocles, which he had read in the History of Timaeus of Tauromenium. The anecdote is often told as a reminder…
Clarus, Aristotle |
Cleisthenes
Cleisthenes (Greek Κλεισθένης): Athenian politician, founder of the Athenian democracy. Fragment of the list of Athenian archons; [C leisthene[s] is mentioned in…Cleisthenes of Sicyon
Cleisthenes (Greek Κλεισθένης): tyrant of Sicyon (first quarter of the sixth century BCE). Delphi, Treasury of the Sicyonians Sicyon, a city on…Cleombrotus
Cleombrotus (Greek: Κλεόμβροτος): Spartan prince from the Agiad Dynasty, in 480/479 BCE regent of his nephew Pleistarchus. Statue of a Spartan…Cleomenes I
Cleomenes (Greek Κλεομένης): Agiad king of Sparta (r.c.520-c.488).Accession A Spartan soldier, perhaps Cleomenes' half-brother Leonidas Cleomenes was the son of the Agiad…Cleon
Cleon (†422): leading Athenian democratic statesman after the death of Pericles.New politicians Portait of an unknown Athenian general Athens had become a democracy…
Coin from Acragas: eagle with hare |
Coin from Cyrene, showing Zeus-Ammon |
Coin from Cyrene, sylphium |