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Helen of Troy

Helen “of Troy“ was in fact Helen of Sparta where she was the wife of King Menelaus. She only spent

The Palace of Minos

So much for the legend. What of the facts? At Cnossos, near Herakleion, in Crete are the ruins of an

Theseus and the Minotaur

The Greeks, then, had their story of the creation of the world, of a great flood and a heroic ancestor;

Early Civilizations to Modern Age

Rome and the Christian Church A.D. 64 -180

TRUMPETS sounded the fire alarm in Rome on the night of July 18, in the year 64. It seemed that

The Growing Church 100 – 500 A. D.

AT THE beginning of the second century, the Christian Church was a loosely organized group of independent local churches. There

Great Church Fathers A.D. 340-430

IT WAS about the middle of Lent in Antioch, reported Jerome, when “a deep-seated fever fell upon my weakened body,

Distant Past and New Challenges

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Milestones of History

Mythology

Who were the Hellenes?

Theseus and the Minotaur

The Palace of Minos

Helen of Troy

The Wooden Horse

Was there a Trojan War?

The Migration

City-States and Colonies

The Delphic Oracle

The Olympic Games

Sparta

A Spartan grows Up

Athens

Solon

A Tyrant Who Was Not Tyrannical

Athenian Democracy

The Ionian Greeks

Marathon

The Rivals

The Second Persian Invasion

Thermopylae

“Wooden Walls” and Salamis

Aeschylus

Theseus Comes Home

The Confederacy of Delos

The Athenian Empire

Herodotus, The Father of History

The Parthenon

Thucydides

Why Did Athens Fight Sparta

The Peloponnesian War Begins

Athenian Death

Hippocrates and Disease

Pericles Dies

Cleon the Tanner

Peace

Socrates

Alcibiades

Sicily

Hecuba, Queen of Troy

Decelea, a Thorn in the Flesh

Oligarchy and Athens in Defeat

Socrates’ Death

Xenophon

Damocles’ Sword – The Fourth Century

Plato

Alexander of Macedon

Hellenistic Age – Alexandria and Byzantium

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