Sybaris on the Traeis was an ancient city situated on the Traeis river, now known as the Trionto. It shares its name with the original city of Sybaris...

Sybaris (Ancient Greek: Σύβαρις; Italian: Sibari) was an important ancient Greek city situated on the coast of the Gulf of Taranto in modern Calabria,...

Uzbekistan 329 Alexander the Great founds Alexandria Eschate in modern Tajikistan 329-160 Dayuan Kingdom. 328 Sybaris on the Traeis is annexed by Bruttian...

Sybaris may refer to: Sybaris, an ancient city of Magna Graecia, now in Italy Sibari, a hamlet of Cassano all'Ionio, Calabria, Italy Sybaris on the Traeis...

forms but the relationship of the precedents to Mycenaean remains to be discovered. Aeolic was spoken in three subdialects: one, Lesbian, on the island of...

develop until the beginning of the Protohistoric Iron Age, c. 800 BC. The decoration on Greek pottery after about 1050 BC lacks the figurative decoration of...

were massive building complexes built on Crete during the Bronze Age. They are often considered emblematic of the Minoan civilization and are modern tourist...

of the belief that building on such a scale would cause hubris. The Athenians built the Arch of Hadrian to honor Emperor Hadrian. The side of the arch...

Athinón) is an ancient citadel located on a rocky outcrop above the city of Athens, Greece, and contains the remains of several ancient buildings of...

Anatolian and mainland Greek elements arose in the western Aegean in the third millennium BC based on emmer and wild-type barley, sheep and goats, pigs...

particularly Philolaus of Croton. Following Croton's decisive victory over Sybaris in around 510 BC, Pythagoras's followers came into conflict with supporters...

Cropalati and Crosia. The river is mainly seasonal. The ancient Greek city Sybaris on the Traeis was located near the course of the river, but its location...

Amongst the first centers to produce coins during the Greek colonization of mainland Southern Italy (Magna Graecia) were Paestum, Crotone, Sybaris, Caulonia...

on the later Roman Empire. Part of the broader era of classical antiquity, the classical Greek era ended after Philip II's unification of most of the...

small sculptures in metal and other materials. The Greeks decided very early on that the human form was the most important subject for artistic endeavour...

put it on the front left corner of the main hoplite phalanx (the most likely). Either way, the Sacred Band is definitely known to have been on the left...

revolution, and the Sybarites were finally expelled from the city. They established themselves for a short time in Sybaris on the Traeis but did not maintain...

The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age culture which was centered on the island of Crete. Known for its monumental architecture and energetic art, it...

them, they were posted on wooden tablets (ἄξονες – axones), where they were preserved for almost two centuries, on steles of the shape of three-sided pyramids...

their effect on the body alongside the moral education which was imparted by the study of music, poetry, and philosophy. This approach to the rearing of...

did not condemn brothels, but rather only instituted regulations on them. In Athens, the legendary lawmaker Solon is credited with having created state...

Diodorus speaks of the Bruttians as having expelled the remainder of the Sybarites, who had settled Sybaris on the Traeis in 446/445 BC after the destruction...

myth. The music and music theory of ancient Greece laid the foundation for western music and western music theory, as it would go on to influence the ancient...

in the Peloponnese; and between the Greek colony Sybaris in southern Italy, its allies, and the Serdaioi. In 499 BC, the Ionian city states under Persian...

Greek architecture came from the Greeks, or Hellenics, whose culture flourished on the Greek mainland, the Peloponnese, the Aegean Islands, and in colonies...

large influence on our understanding of Greek society. The shards of pots discarded or buried in the 1st millennium BC are still the best guide available...

also became "the most tragic of poets", focusing on the inner lives and motives of his characters in a way previously unknown. He was "the creator of ...

now on display at the archaeological museum of Heraklion. The name is sometimes spelled Phaestos or Festos. The disk was discovered in 1908 by the Italian...

is the historical period of the country following Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the annexation of the classical...

temples built by the Hellenic people from the 6th century BC until the 2nd century AD on mainland Greece and in Hellenic towns in the Aegean Islands, Asia...