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It is the oldest city in Greece and now the second largest city in the Peloponnese, modern, multifaceted and dynamic. Ideal for visiting all year, it is best to arrive in summer to enjoy cultural events and outdoor activities. (more…)
During the V and IV centuries BC, the cities of Athens and Sparta were to become the largest and most powerful. These two cities took very different paths. While Sparta conquered neighboring territories by force and which had a large army, Athens made it through dialogue and peaceful ways.
The first major threat to the Greek territories meant the Persians, which was formed before the famous Delian League, which brought together all state cities, including Athens and Sparta. After completing the so-called “War Medicine”, Athens became the largest city of Greece, establishing democracy in the hands of Pericles. It is from this period in which to build the Parthenon, Erection, other large buildings and begins a great time characterized by a high degree of artistic sensibility and philosophy. Examples include Aeschylus, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Herodotus, Socrates, among other great thinkers, artists and authors.
Ancient Greece was one of the civilizations that provided major contributions to Western culture, that’s where it is called the “cradle of civilization”-a name which also gives Mesopotamia. Many of his ideas, art and philosophy were transferred to the Roman civilization after the deal is entirely about the middle of the second century BC, making it a protectorate.
Greek and Hellenistic civilization is the product of evolution cretence and Mycenaean cultures. You could say that the first origin of Greek civilization was born on the island of Crete, about the year 2 700 BC There he developed a flourishing culture from the Bronze Age which was given the name of Minoan or cretences. Many years passed, until in 1 600 BC, the Achaeans occupied the eastern end of the Peloponnese peninsula in mainland Greece. Finally cretences could dominate. It would not be long before the Dorians attempted to seize the land, getting it in the famous Trojan War, which is tested in the “Iliad.”