Greece in the Roman era (Greek: Έλλάς, Latin: Graecia) describes the Roman conquest of ancient Greece (roughly, the territory of the modern nation-state...
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intended symbols. Romanization of Greek is the transliteration (letter-mapping) or transcription (sound-mapping) of text from the Greek alphabet into the...
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The Roman-Greek wars were a series of conflicts between the Roman Republic and Greek kingdoms and city-states. The list includes: The Pyrrhic War (280–275...
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Ancient Greece (Ancient Greek: Ἑλλάς, romanized: Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th...
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Byzantine Greece has a history that mainly coincides with that of the Byzantine Empire itself. The Greek peninsula became a Roman protectorate in 146...
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Church in Greece is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. Indigenous Roman Catholic Greeks numbered...
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the classical Greek Achaean League heartlands by the Roman Republic. This culminated at the Battle of Corinth in 146 BC, a crushing Roman victory in the...
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323–146 BC Roman Greece, covering the period of the Roman conquest of Greece from 146 BC – AD 324 Byzantine Greece covers the period of Greece under the Byzantine...
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Classical antiquity (redirect from Classical Greece and Rome)
ancient Greece and ancient Rome known together as the Greco-Roman world, centered on the Mediterranean Basin. It is the period during which ancient Greece and...
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Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of ancient Greek folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology...
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describe non-Greeks' interpretation of their own belief systems by comparison or assimilation with Greek models, as when Romans adapt Greek myths and iconography...
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Mediterranean. Greek and Latin were never the native languages of many or most of the rural peasants, who formed the great majority of the Roman Empire's population...
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Mycenaean Greece. For later times see Roman Greece, Byzantine Empire and Ottoman Greece. For modern Greece after 1820, see Timeline of modern Greek history...
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associated in some way with Greek Christianity, Levantine Arabic-speaking Christians or more broadly the rite used in the Eastern Roman Empire. The broader meaning...
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on the Greek Diaspora Greeks on Greekness: The Construction and Uses of the Greek Past among Greeks under the Roman Empire. The Modern Greek Studies...
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Macedonian Wars (redirect from Roman invasion of Greece)
by the Roman Republic and its Greek allies in the eastern Mediterranean against several different major Greek kingdoms. They resulted in Roman control...
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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities is an English language encyclopedia first published in 1842. The second, improved and enlarged, edition appeared...
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part of the Roman Empire. Macedonia and the rest of Hellenistic Greece fell to the Roman Empire in 146 BC. The Jews living in Roman Greece had a different...
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Doric order (redirect from Greek Doric)
The Doric order is one of the three orders of ancient Greek and later Roman architecture; the other two canonical orders were the Ionic and the Corinthian...
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Europe. Greece portal Ancient Greece portal Outline of Greece Outline of ancient Greece Index of Greece-related articles Greek: Ελλάδα, romanized: Elláda...
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pre-Roman Crimea, Greeks in pre-Roman Gaul, Greeks in Egypt, Greeks in Syria, Greeks in Malta), Greek Kingdoms of Hellenistic period, Indo-Greek Kingdom, Greco-Bactrian...
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Greek (Modern Greek: Ελληνικά, romanized: Elliniká, pronounced [eliniˈka]; Ancient Greek: Ἑλληνική, romanized: Hellēnikḗ) is an Indo-European language...
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Greek: Ἕλλην), pl. Hellenes (Ἕλληνες); the name Greeks (Latin: Graeci) was used by the ancient Romans and gradually entered the European languages through...
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Classical mythology (redirect from Graeco-Roman mythology)
as Greco-Roman mythology or Greek and Roman mythology, is the collective body and study of myths from the ancient Greeks and ancient Romans. Mythology...
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derived from the Greeks. The Romans came into contact with Greek culture again during the conquest of Magna Graecia, Mainland Greece and the "Hellenistic...
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The Greeks and Romans both made extensive use of artillery for shooting large arrows, bolts or spherical stones or metal balls. Occasionally they also...
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Roman mythology also draws on Greek mythology, primarily during the Hellenistic period of Greek influence and through the Roman conquest of Greece, via...
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Hellenic historiography (redirect from Historiography of ancient Greece)
ancient Greek literature and held a prestigious place in later Roman historiography and Byzantine literature. The historical period of ancient Greece is exclusive...
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Archaic Greece was the period in Greek history lasting from c. 800 BC to the second Persian invasion of Greece in 480 BC, following the Greek Dark Ages...
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one led by the Roman Republic and the other led by the Seleucid king Antiochus III. The fighting took place in modern-day southern Greece, the Aegean Sea...
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