History of Society in Ancient Greece

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Perspective
The history of society in ancient Greece stretches from its Dark Ages of the 12th through the 9th century BCE to the end of its Classical Era in the 4th century BC. Politically, Greece comprised an informal league of city-states and their surrounding territories. But these were unified only once (for 13 years) under Alexander the Great.
Several hundred years after the collapse in 1000 BC of the Bronze Age civilization of Mycenae in the Peloponnesus, Greek city-states began to take root. This marked the beginning of the Archaic era and of the colonization by Greece of southern Italy and the eastern Mediterranean Basin. Classical Greece endured from the time of the wars with Persia to the 4th century BCE. As a result of the campaigns of Alexander the Great (from 334 to 323 BC), Hellenistic civilization came to flourish throughout the Near East to Central Asia and India. But the Hellenistic kingdoms in the eastern Mediterranean were then conquered by the Roman Republic, and the Greek provinces of Macedonia and Achaea were annexed during the Roman Empire. In the development of Western civilization, Classical Greece was followed by the Early Middle Ages and the Byzantine Empire.
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Index
Character • Childhood • Games and Toys • Infanticide • Class War: Mitigation • Second Phase • Wages • Death • Education • Higher Education • Physical Training • Family • Home • Cooking • Drinking • Furniture • Housing • Men • Women • Inequity • Morality • Charity • Population • Sexuality • Prostitution • Slavery: Ethos • Slave Trade • Style • Adornment • Jewelry • Cosmetics • Dress • Hair • Hygiene | City-States | Regions: Argos • Athens: Society | Attica | Boeotia | Corinth: Power | Cyclades Islands: Culture | Epidaurus | Euboea | Ionia: Chios • Colophon • Ephesus • Priene • Samos • Teos • Heraclitus the Obscure | Megara | Miletus: Society • Culture: Literature • Anaximander | Trade | Sicily: Hieron II | Sikyon | Sparta: Society • Children • Class • Environment • Marriage • Spartan Code • Men • Culture • Music • Musicians | Power: Archaic Era • Empire • Persian Civil War: Cyrus the Younger | Law | Thessaly

Character

Childhood

Class War

Class War: Second Phase

Class War: Wages

Education

Education: Higher Education

Physical Training

Environment

Family

Home: Cooking

Home: Drinking

Housing

Men

Women

Inequity

Morality

Morality: Charity

Population

Sexuality

Sexuality: Prostitution

Slavery

Slavery: Ethos

Slavery: Slave Trade

Style

Style: Adornment

Adornment: Jewelry

Style: Cosmetics

Style: Dress

Style: Hair

Hygiene

City-States

Athens

Athens: Society

Attica

Corinth

Cyclades Islands

Cyclades Islands: Culture

Epidaurus

Euboea

Ionia: Chios

Ionia: Colophon

Ionia: Ephesus

Ionia: Priene

Ionia: Samos

Ionia: Teos

Ionia: Philosophy: Heraclitus the Obscure

Megara

Miletus: Society

Miletus: Culture

Culture: Literature

Philosophy: Anaximander

Miletus: Trade

Sicily

Sicily: Power: Hieron II

Sikyon

Sparta

Sparta: Society

Society: Children

Society: Class

Society: Marriage

Society: Men

Society: Spartan Code

Sparta: Culture

Culture: Music

Music: Musicians

Sparta: Power

Power: Archaic Era

Power: Empire

Power: Persian Civil War

Persian Civil War: Cyrus the Younger

Power: Law

Thessaly
