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The Lighthouse of the Mediterranean, 350 BC–100 BC
2011In 333 BC Alexander III, king of Macedon, whose claims to Greekness were treated with some scepticism down in Athens, wreaked vengeance on the Persian kings who had posed such a threat to Greece in past centuries, by defeating a massive Persian army at the battle of the Issos, beyond the Cilician Gates.
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Ancient Greece: 1100 BC to 30 BC
2018The collapse of the Mycenaean civilisation of the Mediterranean coincided with the commencement of the Greek Dark Ages. The period of this age was between the thirteenth century BC and the eleventh century BC, and it coincided with a dramatic drop in Greece’s population.
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The Babylonian Empire: 1900 BC to 539 BC
2018The history of Sumer and Akkad have been mostly derived from archaeological evidence, unlike the history of either Greece or Rome, which have been accorded a written tradition. There was no Herodotus or Thucydides in the case of either Sumer or Akkad as there was in the case of Greece, except for Berossus.
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Merchants and Heroes, 1500 BC–1250 BC
2011In the years around 1500 BC Crete experienced not just massive economic changes but very significant political changes. The arrival of a Greek dynasty on the island occurred around the time that many settlements such as Arkhanes were abandoned; Knossos alone survived among the great palaces, and one Minoan site after another was destroyed.
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Isolation and Insulation, 22000 BC–3000 BC
2011Carved out millions of years before mankind reached its coasts, the Mediterranean Sea became a ‘sea between the lands’ linking opposite shores once human beings traversed its surface in search of habitation, food or other vital resources. Early types of humans inhabited the lands bordering the Mediterranean 435,000 years before the present, to judge ...
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Hippocrates (ca 460 BC to ca 370 BC)
The chapter begins with a review of some of the background thinking during Hippocrates time. The brain was considered to be the location of the soul which was the essence of subjective experience. However, this was not a brain function as such but rather a location where the pneuma reacted with the soul.openaire +2 more sources
The Heirs of Odysseus, 800 BC–550 BC
2011Whether the early Greeks possessed as powerful a sense of identity as the Phoenicians is far from clear. Only when a massive Persian threat appeared to loom from the east, in the sixth century, did the diverse Greek-speakers of the Peloponnese, Attika and the Aegean begin to lay a heavy emphasis on what they had in common; the sense of a Hellenic ...
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