12 Labors of Hercules
Achilles and the Trojan War
Cadmus and the Dragon
Creation Myth
Cyclops
Daedalus and Icarus
Eleusinian Mysteries
Jason, Argonauts and the Golden Fleece
Pandora’s Box
Perseus and the Gorgon
Theseus and the Minotaur
Homer
General references:
Wikipedia
Encyclopedia Mythica
Bulfinch’s Mythology
GREEK GODS
Musica Universalis or Music of the Spheres is an ancient philosophical concept that regards proportions in the movements of celestial bodies – the sun, moon, and planets – as a form of musica – the medieval Latin name for music. This music is not audible, but simply a mathematical concept. The Greek philosopher Pythagoras is frequently credited...
In Greek antiquity, medicine was second to mathematics. Ancient Greek Civilization was at its peak during the 400’s BC. During this period of time, sick people went to the temples dedicated to Asclepius, the Greek god of healing. At this time, a man named Hippocrates began teaching that every disease had only natural causes. He is known as the great ancient Greek physician. In medicine...
Greek mathematics, as that term is used in this article, is the mathematics developed from the 6th century BC to the 5th century AD around the shores of the Mediterranean. It constitutes a major period of the history of mathematics, fundamental in respect of geometry and the idea of formal proof. Greek mathematics also contributed importantly to ideas on number theory, mathematical analysis...
The lyre references music and harmonics. The lyre is a stringed musical instrument well known for its use in Classical Antiquity. The recitations of the Ancient Greeks were accompanied by lyre playing. The lyre is a member of the zither family, and was ordinarily played by strumming with a plectrum, like a guitar, rather than being plucked, like a harp. According to ancient Greek mythology, the...
Classical and Pre-Classical Antiquity This period of Greek literature stretches from Homer until the 4th century BC and the rise of Alexander the Great. English mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead once claimed that all of philosophy is but a footnote to Plato. To suggest that all of Western literature is no more than a footnote to the writings of ancient Greece is an...
The Royal Library of Alexandria was once the largest library in the world. It was a major library and cultural center located on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea in the Egyptian city of Alexandria. It is usually assumed to have been founded at the beginning of the 3rd century BC during the reign of Ptolemy II of Egypt after his father had set up the temple of the Muses, the Musaeum (whence we...
In general, there are three stages that most legal systems progress through: Early Laws After the Dark Ages – About 1200-900 BC – and beginning at about 900 BC, the Ancient Greeks had no official laws or punishments. Murders were settled by members of the victim’s family, who would then go and kill the murderer. This often began endless blood feuds. It was not until the middle...
Origins – There are several theories about the origins of the Greek language. One theory suggests that it originated with a migration of proto-Greek speakers into the Greek peninsula, which is dated to any period between 2500 BC and 1700 BC. Another theory maintains that the migration into Greece occurred at a pre-proto-Greek (late PIE) stage, and the characteristic Greek sound...
Ancient Greece was a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history that lasted from the Archaic period of the 8th to 6th centuries BC to the end of antiquity (ca. 600 AD). Immediately following this period was the beginning of the Early Middle Ages and the Byzantine era. Included in Ancient Greece is the period of Classical Greece, which flourished during the 5th to 4th centuries BC...