FOLLOW US,MEMBERSHIP,ENCYCLOPEDIA,INDEX,TIMELINE,EXPLORE,IMAGES,TOOLS,ANCIENT,ATLAS,WEIGHTS MEASURES,RANDOM,PAGE,LATIN,DICTIONARY,CONTENT,STYLE GUIDE,TERMS CONDITIONS,JOIN,THE TEAM,TRAVEL,CULTURE,PHOTOS,EXHIBITIONS,INTERVIEWS,EDUCATION,ABOUT ABOUT,EDITORIAL,TEAM,CONTACT,PRIVACY,ADVERTISEMENTS,SUPPORT,HOW TO,HELP,DONATE,BOOKSHOP,SHOP,LOGIN,REGISTER,ANCIENT GREECE,DEFINITION,JOSHUA,MARK,PUBLISHED,GREECE,COUNTRY,SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE,GREEK,HELLAS,CONSISTING OF,MAINLAND,AN ARCHIPELAGO,ISLANDS,THE BIRTHPLACE,WESTERN PHILOSOPHY,SOCRATES,PLATO,ARISTOTLE,LITERATURE,HOMER,HESIOD,MATHEMATICS,PYTHAGORAS,EUCLID,HERODOTUS,DRAMA,SOPHOCLES,ARISTOPHANES,THE OLYMPIC GAMES,DEMOCRACY,THE CONCEPT,ATOMIC,UNIVERSE,THE WORK,DEMOCRITUS,LEUCIPPUS,THE PROCESS,TODAY,SCIENTIFIC METHOD,THALES OF MILETUS,LATIN ALPHABET,COMES,THE REGION,PHOENICIANS,8TH CENTURY BCE,EARLY WORK,PHYSICS AND ENGINEERING,ARCHIMEDES,THE GREEK,COLONY,SYRACUSE,AMONG OTHERS,MAINLAND GREECE,PENINSULA,MEDITERRANEAN SEA,BRANCHING,IONIAN SEA,IN THE WEST,THE AEGEAN,THE EAST,THE ISLANDS,CYCLADES,THE DODECANESE,RHODES,IONIAN ISLANDS,CORCYRA,THE ISLE,CRETE,SOUTHERN PENINSULA,PELOPONNESE,GEOGRAPHY OF GREECE,THE CULTURE,NATURAL RESOURCES,WATER,THE PEOPLE,EVENTUALLY,TO THE SEA,LIVELIHOOD,MOUNTAINS,COVER,EIGHTY,PERCENT,RIVERS RUN,ROCKY,LANDSCAPE,LITTLE,AGRICULTURE,THE EARLY,GREEKS,COLONIZED,NEIGHBORING,ALONG THE COAST,ANATOLIA,ALSO KNOWN AS,ASIA MINOR,MODERN,TURKEY,THE GREEKS,SEAFARING,PEOPLE,TRADERS,ABUNDANCE,MATERIALS,CONSTRUCTION,STONE,SKILL,IMPRESSIVE,STRUCTURES,ANTIQUITY,REACHED,THE HEIGHTS,ALMOST EVERY,AREA,HUMAN LEARNING,ETYMOLOGY,DESIGNATION,HELLEN,THE SON,DEUCALION,PYRRHA,FEATURE,OVID,TALE,THE GREAT FLOOD,METAMORPHOSES,MYTHICAL,THE FIRE,TITAN,PROMETHEUS,SAVIOR,HUMAN RACE,THE SAME WAY,NOAH,PRESENTED,BIBLICAL,VERSION,UTNAPISHTIM,MESOPOTAMIAN,THE LAND,ONCE,THE FLOOD,WATERS,CASTING,STONES,CONTRARY,POPULAR OPINION,NOTHING,TO DO,HELEN OF TROY,ILIAD,COIN,THUCYDIDES,BOOK,HISTORIES,THINK,NAME,THE WHOLE,IN FACT,EXIST,AT ALL,TRIBES,PELASGIAN,SPREAD,GAVE,NAMES,DISTRICTS,SONS,POWERFUL,PHTHIOTIS,CITIES,WITH THEM,HELLENES,PREVALENT,THE BEST,EVIDENCE,LIVED,THE TROJAN WAR,NOWHERE,USES,COLLECTIVELY,ACHILLES,THE ORIGINAL,SPEAKING,ENTIRE,HOST,ARGIVES,ACHAEANS,EARLY HISTORY OF,GREEK HISTORY,UNDERSTOOD,PERIODS,ALREADY,SETTLED,INITIATED,PALEOLITHIC ERA,EVIDENCED,FINDS,PETRALONA,FRANCHTHI,CAVES,OLDEST HUMAN,IN THE WORLD,NEOLITHIC AGE,C,2900 BCE,PERMANENT,NORTHERN GREECE,DOMESTICATION OF ANIMALS,DEVELOPMENT OF,ARCHAEOLOGICAL,THESSALY,MACEDONIA,SESKLO,MIGRATION,CERAMIC,CUPS,BOWLS,SHARE,NEOLITHIC,INLAND,SETTLERS,FARMERS,ELSEWHERE,ONE ROOM,HOUSES,ROOF,TIMBER,CLAY,DAUBING,CYCLADIC CIVILIZATION,FLOURISHED,DELOS,NAXOS,PAROS,HUMAN,HABITATION,REGION,CYCLADIC,PERIOD,TEMPLES,LIVING,FISHING,TRADE,DIVIDED,PHASES,MIDDLE CYCLADIC,LATE CYCLADIC,DEVELOPMENT,ART AND ARCHITECTURE,OVERLAP,FINALLY,MERGE,THE MINOAN CIVILIZATION,DIFFERENCES,1500 BCE,DEVELOPED,THE ISLAND,DOMINANT,SEA POWER,TERM,THE ARCHAEOLOGIST,SIR ARTHUR EVANS,UNCOVERED,PALACE OF KNOSSOS,THE ANCIENT,CRETAN,KING MINOS,THEMSELVES,THRIVING,SEEMS,ACCEPTED,DATES,EXISTENCE,PROBABLY,MINOANS,WRITING SYSTEM,LINEAR,SHIP BUILDING,CERAMICS,THE ARTS,SCIENCES,WARFARE,ANCIENT HISTORIANS,FIRST PERSON,NAVY,GEOLOGICAL,SUGGESTS,CIVILIZATION,FELL,CAUSING,DEFORESTATION,TRADITIONALLY,MYCENAEANS,ERUPTION,THE VOLCANO,NEARBY,ISLAND,THERA,SANTORINI,1550 BCE,TSUNAMI,FINAL CAUSE,THE FALL,EVENT,INSPIRATION,MYTH,OF ATLANTIS,DIALOGUES,CRITIAS,TIMAEUS,GODS,MYCENAEAN CIVILIZATION,THE BEGINNING OF,GREEK CULTURE,EVEN THOUGH,ALMOST NOTHING,SAVE,DETERMINED,ACCOUNT,WAR,THE ILIAD,ARCHITECTURAL,LINEAR B,THE ESTABLISHMENT,RELIGIOUS,RITES,APPEAR,WORSHIP,OF EARTH,GODDESSES,SKY GODS,IN TIME,THE CLASSICAL,PANTHEON,THE GODS,SOLID,PARADIGM,THE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE,THE WORLD,HUMAN BEINGS,IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS,CHAOS,UNENDING,GODDESS,EURYNOME,DANCE,CREATION,THE SERPENT,OPHION,ALL OF CREATION,SPRANG,THE GREAT MOTHER,CREATOR,ALL THINGS,WRITING,STORY,CHANGED,THE MORE,FAMILIAR,THE TITANS,ZEUS,WAR AGAINST,BIRTH,THE OLYMPIAN GODS,CHIEF,SHIFT,MATRIARCHAL RELIGION,PATRIARCHAL,WHICHEVER,MODEL,THE HUMANS,WORSHIPPED,DAILY LIFE,PRIOR,THE COMING,THE ROMANS,THE ONLY ROAD,COW,PATH,THE SACRED WAY,CITY OF ATHENS,THE HOLY CITY,ELEUSIS,BIRTHPLACE,ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES,DEMETER,DAUGHTER,PERSEPHONE,THE GREAT,SOUTHWEST,ABANDONED,CLAIM,INVASION,ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE,WRITTEN,SURVIVE,UNEARTHED,SPECULATE,CAUSES,TABLETS,LINEAR B SCRIPT,THUS,LISTS,GOODS,KEPT,STOCK,HISTORY OF,CLEAR,DARK AGES,THE ABSENCE,DOCUMENTATION,CULTURAL,BEGINNING,IN C,585 BCE,GREEK PHILOSOPHER,THALES,ENGAGED,SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY,THE SETTLEMENT,MILETUS,COAST,THIS REGION,COLONIES,THE FIELDS,PHILOSOPHY,ARCHAIC,ARCHAIC PERIOD,500 BCE,INTRODUCTION,REPUBLICS,MONARCHIES,ATHENS,TOWARD,DEMOCRATIC,RULE,ORGANISED,SINGLE CITY,STATE,POLIS,THE INSTITUTION OF,LAWS,DRACO,REFORMS,FESTIVAL,GREEK POTTERY,GREEK SCULPTURE,COINS,MINTED,KINGDOM,AEGINA,THE STAGE,FLOURISHING,400 BCE,PRECISELY,323 BCE,VICTORY,SALAMIS,TO THE DEATH,ALEXANDER,THIS WAS,THE GOLDEN AGE,PERICLE