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Teaching Myself About Ancient Greek History?
I want to learn about Greek History, but I'm not sure where to start. I've read biographies of famous philosophers and military leaders, but there are a lot of references I don't understand.
Could anyone suggest...
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at thestudentroom):
Re: Teaching Myself About Ancient Greek History?
The classical world: An epic history from Homer to Hadrian is a good introduction....
Re: Teaching Myself About Ancient Greek History?
Some of these might come in handy.
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If I recall from my misspent school days, the civilization we think of as "Greece" arose from Mycenaean settlement of the Greek peninsula a few thousand years BC. It failed to occur to me that there must have been someone else there before them, however...
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The Minoan Linear....
The civilization we think of as "Greece" arose from Mycenaean settlement of the Greek peninsula a few from recorded history that even an educated guess might
not ever be possible.
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Does anyone have thoughts on what the best single volume history of the ancient classical world is?
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at intpcentral):
"Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , published between 1776.
I don't know the answer to your question so I'll just recommend writings from the period: History the gist.
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A reporter published the lies about Turkey that have been accepted by Greece. Here are the answers given by To Vima newspaper against "10 Big Greek Lies":
Neither religious nor language pressure
1. Ottomans did not make Islamic pressure on the Greeks....
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Athens siege&Itemid=33 http://www.topix.net/forum/world/greece/ TPEMI2CCC8J20QFIU To Vima is just a Greek newspaper about 1821 is (by mistake, I guess....
Th Lie: Thanks to the mutiny, Larissa (Central Greece) joined to Greek lands in 1881.
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The coins prove that the Macedonians are Greeks!
Greek coins of Macedonia! Alexander_I:
http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/macedon...
Macedonians are Greeks since 3000 years!
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The coins prove that the Macedonians are Greeks!
Greek coins of Macedonia! Alexander the Great:
http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/macedon...
Macedonians are Greeks since 3000 years!
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When I study Latin I have many times been asked if I also study Greek. When my paternal grandfather studied at the university about 80 years ago he had studied both Latin and Greek. Still today people tend to study both classical languages. Why is this...
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I figure I would be better to the accuracy of any translations... .
What do you think? This is the reason I haven't learned Greek.
Interest for these areas in History has made me think that I do not need to learn Greek and can need Greek.
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Who are the top five most influential Greeks in world history?
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High_Blood_Pressure_Heart_Attack_With_My_Beloved_Cat_Marek@webtv.net (Dizzy
Alexander the great would be one such influential Greek
Aristotle
Alexander.
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The Macedonians lived under the same political system uninterruptedly for 500 years, says Robin Lane Fox, Ancient Historian at the University of Oxford.Nowadays we admire the ancient Greeks for their invention of democracy, but even among the Athenians...
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It persisted from about 650 stable form of government in Greek....
Macedons system was monarchy, the most stable form of government in Greek history was monarchy, the most stable form of government in Greek history.
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Does anyone have any good resources for learning Standard Modern Greek? For example, a grammar like the ones we have for ancient Greek. I really want to learn a language that people actually speak . Dolor poetas creat.
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Stuff insists on teaching modern Greek as if it still functions like Ancient Greek: good job dealing one "An Essential Grammar...." or there's a Greek book "kleidia" (the keys to Greek language) which and cheap like "Colloquial....
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