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THE BEECHMONT CREST GUIDE TO ANCIENT GREECE

 

• The ancient Greeks touch your life everyday
• What Greece has in common with Louisiana and Florida
• Ancient Greece was a land divided
• Introduction to the Greek city-states
• How did Greek civilization begin?
• Minoan Crete
• Mycenaean Greece
• The Mycenaeans in literature: The Iliad and The Odyssey
• The Greek Dark Age: Tough Times in Ancient Greece
• More about Homer: why the ancient Greeks loved him so much
• The beginnings of the classical Greek city-states
• How did the ancient Greeks fight?
• Greek colonies in the Mediterranean and elsewhere
• The Greek tyrants
• Comparing Sparta and Athens

• Just how tough were the Spartans?

• Why was Spartan society so extreme?

• Spartan women were pretty tough, too.

• Sparta's form of government

• How economic woes and bad loans brought democracy to Athens

• Athens experiences tyranny—and then more democracy

• The Persians vs. the Greeks

• After the Battle of Marathon: The Athenians regroup and develop a navy

• The Battle of Thermopylae

• The Delian League: the dark side of Athens

• The Age of Pericles