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Welcome to the Portal of Ancient Greece!
Here you will find 66 articles about Ancient Greece. See them all!

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Featured Article

The courtyard and a colonnade of the palaestra at Olympia

A palaestra (sometimes, palestra) was a sports building in Ancient Greece. It was the place where wrestling was taught and practiced. It consisted of a large square or rectangular courtyard. This courtyard was open to the sky. It was surrounded by colonnades. Off these colonnades were dressing rooms, lecture rooms, bath rooms, and rooms for storing equipment.

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Categories

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▼ Ancient Greek city-states

► Sparta

  Athens

▼ Ancient Greek military culture

► Ancient Greek military leaders

► Ancient Greek wars and battles

  Hoplite

▼ Ancient Greek military leaders

► Alexander the Great

► Pericles

  Alcibiades

  Pericles

► Ancient Greek mythology

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▼ Ancient Greek philosophers

► Plato

► Socrates

  Aristotle

  Aspasia

  Plato

  Socrates

▼ Ancient Greek plays

  The Oresteia

▼ Ancient Greek playwrights

► Aeschylus

  Aristophanes

  Euripides

  Sophocles

▼ Ancient Greek poetry

  Iliad

  Odyssey

▼ Ancient Greek poets

► Pindar

  Hesiod

  Homer

▼ Ancient Greek sports

  Ancient Olympics

  Olympia, Greece

  Palaestra

▼ Ancient Greek vase paintings

  Antilochus (amphora)

  Ganymedes (bell krater)

▼ Ancient Greek wars and battles

  Greco-Persian Wars

  Battle of Marathon

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Did You Know?

Athena's owl, her olive branch, and a crescent moon on an Athenian coin, 480-420 BC

• ... that the owl was sacred to Athena, the goddess of wisdom?
• ... that a hoplite was a citizen-soldier?
• ... that the Greco-Persian Wars occurred over a 50 year period?

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Parthenon from the south

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You can write an article! Select one of the topics below or pick one of your own. Keep vocabulary and grammar simple. We are writing for 8-13 year old children!

• Symposion
• Tragedy
• Comedy
• Peloponnesian War
• Thucydides
• Herodotus
• Thales
• Erastothenes
• Miltiades
• Battle of Salamis
• Phalanx
• Sarissa

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Achilles tends Patroclus' wounds in a scene from Iliad

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• Who wrote Iliad?
• What is a hoplite?
• Who tutored Alexander the Great?
• What was a palaestra?