Outline of ancient Greece


The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to ancient Greece:
Ancient Greece –

Geography of Ancient Greece

Regions of Ancient Greece

Regions of ancient Greece

Government and politics of ancient Greece

Ancient Greek law

Ancient Greek law

Military history of ancient Greece

Military history of ancient Greece

Military of ancient Greece

Military powers and alliances

Military conflicts

General history of ancient Greece

Ancient Greek history, by period

Ancient Greek history, by region

  • Ancient Athens
  • * Athenian democracy – democracy in the Greek city-state of Athens developed around the fifth century BC, making Athens one of the first known democracies in the world, comprising the city of Athens and the surrounding territory of Attica. It was a system of direct democracy, in which eligible citizens voted directly on legislation and executive bills.
  • ** Solon – Athenian statesman, lawmaker, and poet. Legislated against political, economic, and moral decline in archaic Athens. His reforms failed in the short term, yet he is often credited with having laid the foundations for Athenian democracy.
  • ** Cleisthenes. – father of Athenian democracy. He reformed the constitution of ancient Athens and set it on a democratic footing in 508/7 BC.
  • ** Ephialtes – led the democratic revolution against the Athenian aristocracy, which exerted control through the Areopagus, the most powerful body in the state. Ephialtes proposed a reduction of the Areopagus' powers, and the Ecclesia adopted Ephialtes' proposal without opposition. This reform signaled the beginning of a new era of "radical democracy" for which Athens would become famous.
  • ** Pericles – arguably the most prominent and influential Greek statesman. When Ephialtes was assassinated for overthrowing the elitist Council of the Aeropagus, his deputy Pericles stepped in. He was elected strategos in 445 BCE, which he held continuously until his death in 429 BCE, always by election of the Athenian Assembly. The period during which he led Athens, roughly from 461 to 429 BC, is known as the "Age of Pericles".
  • ** Ostracism – procedure under the Athenian democracy in which any citizen could be expelled from the city-state of Athens for ten years.
  • ** Areopagus – council of elders of Athens, similar to the Roman Senate. Like the Senate, its membership was restricted to those who had held high public office, in this case that of Archon. In 594 BC, the Areopagus agreed to hand over its functions to Solon for reform.
  • ** Ecclesia – principal assembly of the democracy of ancient Athens during its "Golden Age". It was the popular assembly, open to all male citizens with 2 years of military service. In 594 BC, Solon allowed all Athenian citizens to participate, regardless of class, even the thetes.
  • History of Sparta
  • History of Macedonia (ancient kingdom)
  • History of Crete#Iron Age and Archaic Crete
  • Asia Minor#Greek West
  • History of Greek and Hellenistic Sicily
  • Greeks in pre-Roman Gaul
  • * History of Marseille#Antiquity
  • Cyrenaica#Greek rule
  • Bosporan Kingdom
  • Ptolemaic Kingdom
  • * Cyrenaica#Resumption of Greek rule
  • Coele-Syria
  • Seleucid Empire
  • * Tylos
  • Greco-Bactrian Kingdom
  • Indo-Greek Kingdom

Ancient Greek History, by subject

Works on ancient Greek history

Culture of ancient Greece

Culture of ancient Greece

Architecture of ancient Greece

Architecture of ancient Greece

Art in ancient Greece

Art in ancient Greece

Literature in ancient Greece

Literature in ancient Greece

Philosophy in ancient Greece

Philosophy in ancient Greece
Ancient Greek schools of philosophy
Philosophers of ancient Greece

Language in ancient Greece

Ancient Greek

Religion in ancient Greece

Religion in ancient Greece

Sport in ancient Greece

Sports
Equipment
Stadiums
Training facilities

Economy of ancient Greece

Economy of ancient Greece

Health in ancient Greece

Science of ancient Greece

Technology of ancient Greece

Ancient Greek technology