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# Ancient Greece
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## Overview
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Ancient Greece (~800–146 BCE) comprised independent city-states (*poleis*) that produced foundational contributions to Western philosophy, democracy, science, art, and literature.
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Ancient Greece (~800–146 BCE) comprised independent city-states (*poleis*) that produced foundational contributions to Western philosophy, democracy, science, art, and literature. @t[800 BCE..146 BCE]
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## Key Facts
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- Region: Greek peninsula, Aegean islands, western Anatolia, colonies across the Mediterranean
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- Period: ~800 BCE (Archaic) – 146 BCE (Roman conquest)
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- Period: ~800 BCE (Archaic) – 146 BCE (Roman conquest) @t[~800 BCE]
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- Major city-states: Athens, Sparta, Corinth, Thebes
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- Language: Ancient Greek (Indo-European)
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- Writing: Greek alphabet, adapted from Phoenician ~800 BCE
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- Writing: Greek alphabet, adapted from Phoenician ~800 BCE @t[~800 BCE]
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## Major Periods
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- Archaic (~800–480 BCE): Colonization, rise of the polis, early philosophy
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- Classical (480–323 BCE): Golden Age of Athens, Peloponnesian War, Alexander
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- Hellenistic (323–146 BCE): Post-Alexander kingdoms, cultural diffusion
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- Archaic (~800–480 BCE): Colonization, rise of the polis, early philosophy @t[800 BCE..480 BCE]
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- Classical (480–323 BCE): Golden Age of Athens, Peloponnesian War, Alexander @t[480 BCE..323 BCE]
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- Hellenistic (323–146 BCE): Post-Alexander kingdoms, cultural diffusion @t[323 BCE..146 BCE]
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## Achievements
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- Athenian democracy established ~508 BCE under Cleisthenes [^1]
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- Athenian democracy established ~508 BCE under Cleisthenes @t[~508 BCE] [^1]
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- Philosophy: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle
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- Drama: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes
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- History: Herodotus, Thucydides
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- Olympic Games, first held 776 BCE
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- Parthenon completed ~432 BCE
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- Olympic Games, first held 776 BCE @t[=776 BCE]
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- Parthenon completed ~432 BCE @t[~432 BCE]
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## Decline
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Greece fell under Macedonian hegemony after the Battle of Chaeronea (338 BCE), then became a Roman province after the destruction of Corinth in 146 BCE.
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Greece fell under Macedonian hegemony after the Battle of Chaeronea (338 BCE), then became a Roman province after the destruction of Corinth in 146 BCE. @t[=338 BCE]
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[^1]: Ober, J. *The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece* (Princeton, 2015)
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