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The landscape from the top of Mt. Chortiatis. In the background, the hinterland of the mountainous Chalcidice emerges. In antiquity, the mountain was called Cissus, which means ivy. The locals could have chosen the mountain's name either...

Macedon was an ancient kingdom located in the north of the Greek peninsula first inhabited by the Mackednoi tribe who, according to Herodotus, were the first to call themselves 'Hellenes' (later applied to all Greeks) and who gave the land...

The Heraion of Argos is an ancient temple in Argos, Greece. It was part of the greatest sanctuary in the Argolid, dedicated to the goddess Hera. The sanctuary grew and expended during the Archaic and Classical period and most of the remains...

Map based on Description of Greece by Pausanias. The map shows which parts of Greece each book in the work describes.

The Hellenic World' is a term which refers to that period of ancient Greek history between 507 BCE (the date of the first democracy in Athens) and 323 BCE (the death of Alexander the Great). This period is also referred to as the age of...

Acropolis Agora Greek Archaic Period Archon Areopagus Aristocracy Assembly Boule City-State Greek Classical Period Democracy Demos Diarchy Ephor Gerousia Helot Hetaireiai Labyrinth Laconicism Minoan Monarchy Mycenaean Oligarchy Ostracism...

Aesychlus Aristophanes Base Capital Chorus Comedy Corinthian column Dionysus Doric column Drama Entablature Entasis Euripides Frieze Ionic column Metope Pediment Philosophy Satyr play Shaft Skene Sophocles Tragedy Triglyph Socrates Plato...

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) was a German composer of Romantic music best known for his symphonies, songs, and orchestral, chamber, and piano music. A great student of the history of music, Brahms was convinced that only by working within...

Map epicting locations described in Pausanias' Description of Greece, as found in the version translated and with a commentary by J. G. Frazer. Photograph by the British Library.

The Houses of Zosa and Leda in Dion in Macedonia (Greece) are two private houses were located in the southeastern corner of the ancient city. Only a narrow road separated them from the southern city wall. Both houses were built around the...