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The traditional Greeks demonstrated modes of and attitudes approximately battle that profoundly prompted later ecu and European-based peoples. certainly, the triumph of Western civilization from Greco-Roman instances to the current owes an incalculable debt to the Greeks. In interesting element, this quantity covers Greek guns, armor, conflict formations and strategies, and naval battle, supported by means of quite a few eyewitness money owed of battles and different pivotal occasions.

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Greenhaven Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece

The traditional Greeks validated modes of and attitudes approximately battle that profoundly stimulated later ecu and European-based peoples. certainly, the triumph of Western civilization from Greco-Roman instances to the current owes an incalculable debt to the Greeks. In interesting aspect, this quantity covers Greek guns, armor, conflict formations and strategies, and naval war, supported through quite a few eyewitness bills of battles and different pivotal occasions.

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C. She soon committed suicide, ending Greek rule of the city and of Egypt, which then fell under the control of Rome. and the centuries that followed it was produced in Alexandria, Egypt, then ruled by the Greek Ptolemaic dynasty. Some Alexandrian literature was of a scientific nature, including Euclid’s geometry text, the Elements, and a book by the Greek astronomer Aristarchus in which he correctly proposed that the Sun, not Earth, lies at the center of the cosmos. ) Hellenistic Greek literature also consisted of popular poetry and prose.

In addition, Apollo built the walls of Troy with the aid of Poseidon, god of the seas; helped the Trojans in their famous war against the Greeks, including guiding the arrow that Troy’s Prince Paris shot into the heel of the Greek hero Achilles; and defended the mortal Orestes, who had slain his own mother, Clytemnestra, in a trial overseen by the goddess Athena, a myth dramatized by Aeschylus in his play the Eumenides. It is unknown when worship of Apollo began in Greece. Some scholars think that the Dorian Greeks (who originated in the region north of Greece) introduced him in the early Dark Age.

Noble indeed 34 was his power of inspiring his men, of filling them with confidence, and, in the moment of danger, of sweeping away their fear by the spectacle of his own fearlessness. 29) Tempering these positive traits, however, were some decidedly negative ones. Alexander was also tremendously selfcentered and stubborn, and he frequently employed unnecessarily brutal and inhumane tactics. His destruction of Thebes and sale of its surviving inhabitants into slavery was just one of many examples.

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