World History Volume

City-States and Colonies

This entry is part 8 of 49 in the series Hellenes Greek History and Mythology

The two hundred years after 800 B.C. saw a great expansion of the Greeks by colonisation. Colonisation is a more orderly kind of migration. The…

This entry is part 7 of 49 in the series Hellenes Greek History and Mythology

The “Dark Age” of Greece (c. 1100 – 800) was a time of migration and settlement. Whole peoples were in migration mode. People on the…

This entry is part 6 of 49 in the series Hellenes Greek History and Mythology

Parts of the story of the Trojan War are told in two poems the Iliad (Ilium = Troy) and the Odyssey (Odysseus was one of…

This entry is part 5 of 49 in the series Hellenes Greek History and Mythology

In the tenth year of the war the Greek hero Achilles slew Hector, the Trojan, in single combat. (Paris, the cause of all the trouble,…

This entry is part 4 of 49 in the series Hellenes Greek History and Mythology

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

This entry is part 3 of 49 in the series Hellenes Greek History and Mythology

So much for the legend. What of the facts? At Cnossos, near Herakleion, in Crete are the ruins of an enormous palace, which must have…

This entry is part 2 of 49 in the series Hellenes Greek History and Mythology

The Greeks, then, had their story of the creation of the world, of a great flood and a heroic ancestor; but the only fact we…

This entry is part 1 of 49 in the series Hellenes Greek History and Mythology

GREECE is a country that people go to on cruises in spring, summer and autumn. Like other people who go on cruises, they are in…

This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series Western Europe Widens its Horizons

The civilizations of India, China and the Moslem world progressed to about the year 1500 A.D., but what had been happening in western Europe in…