Ancient Greece

alternative ancient Greece

1. The Greek-speaking world in ancient times, geographically including not only modern Greece and southern Balkan peninsula but also to areas of Hellenic culture that were settled during ancient times by Greeks: Cyprus, the Aegean coast of Ionia, southern Italian peninsula and Sicily (known as Magna Graecia) and the scattered Greek settlements on the coasts of what are now Albania, Bulgaria, Egypt, Libya, southern France, southern Spain, Catalonia, Georgia, Romania, and Ukraine.
2. The civilization that flourished around the Mediterranean Sea from the 3rd millennium to the 1st century BCE (including the first two European civilizations, Minoan and Mycenaean), known as the cradle of Western civilization.

1. Alternative letter-case form of Ancient Greece.

   During the Golden Age of ancient Greece, no one was safe from spells, not even exalted politicians and orators.

   2001 April 22, Lisa Orkin, “Archeologists Find Ancient Greeks Practiced That Old—Very Old—Black Magic”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Aug 2019

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   The one-time motto of the US reminds us that, much like most of the larger nation states today, ancient Greece was a mosaic of very different components: about 1,000 of them at any one time between c600BC and AD330.

   2010 November 7, Paul Cartledge, “Greece: Birthplace of the modern world?”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Sep 2013

   Today, the settlement lies burned and buried, offering the researchers an invaluable means of studying the volatile politics of ancient Greece and the complex lives of the Mycenaean people, who lived at the crossroads of history and mythology.

   2022 October 3, Matt Stirn, “Unearthing Everyday Life at an Ancient Site in Greece”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Oct 2022