Ancient Places and/or Civilizations Documents

Ancient Greece was not a single, unified country.  Instead, it was a country of strong city states (like Sparta and Athens) which were sometimes ...

Not only was Herodotus the "Father of History," he approached the entire subject from a different point of view - his own.  In his Histories, He...

Herodotus is known as the world's first historian and is often called the "Father of History."  He lived in the 5th century, BC. 

Greek hoplites were infantrymen who fought their battles in tightly packed formations.  They took their name ("hoplite") from the "hoplon," a shi...

Bookcover image of In Search of the Trojan War, by Michael Wood.

After Xerxes demanded that Leonidas and his men give up their arms, the Spartan king roared:  "Molon Labe" (mo-lone lah-veh)! Translated into Eng...

This map depicts the country of Libya, home of Simon of Cyrene (who helped Jesus carry the cross to the hill of execution). Click on the image for a ...

Image of a map of Ancient Greece depicting the location of Elis on the Peloponnesian Peninsula.

This map, based on Google Earth, depicts the location of Stageira.  The ancient town, now mostly in ruins, was the birthplace of Aristotle - the ...

This map depicts the location of the very small "Old City" of Jerusalem, compared to its various surroundings today.  Click on the map for a bet...

Marcus Aurelius, who lived between 121-180 AD, was more than a Roman emperor.  He was also a philosopher whose Meditations are still studied. Li...

This table is the first of twenty-five similar tables summarizing court cases in which animals were tried as criminal defendants.  The first comp...