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| | 10th millennium BC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | 9560 BC – Taking Plato literally (assuming that his figure of 9,000 years before 560 BC was accurate and exact), the city-state of Atlantis sank into the ocean. | | | Circa 9500 BC – Ancylus Lake, part of the modern-day Baltic Sea, forms. | | | Circa 10,000 BC– World: Sea levels rise abruptly and massive inland flooding occurs due to glacier melt. |
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| | Pisistratus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In 560 BC he seized the Acropolis with a group of bodyguards, becoming turannos (tyrant). | | | 607-528 BC) was a Greek statesman who became the Tyrant of Athens following a (quite popular) coup and ruled in 561, 559-556 and 546-528 BC. | | | His rule did not last - he was driven out by Lycurgus, Megacles and others from the party of the Coast within the year. |
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| | Ethics of Greek Politics and Wars 500-360 BC by Sanderson Beck |
| | Spartan Hegemony 404-371 BC According to Thucydides during the Peloponnesian War in 424 BC the Spartan general Brasidas had told the Thracians that the Peloponnesians did not seek empire but were struggling to end Athenian imperialism; Brasidas offered autonomy to Thrace, and his policy was confirmed in oaths by the Spartan ephors. | | | After the major Spartan defeat at Leuctra in 371 BC, the harmosts, which were to be voluntarily withdrawn from cities according to the treaty, were expelled, as cities reacted against their oligarchies with democratic revolutions. | | | At the battle of Cunaxa in 401 BC the Greeks held their own against superior numbers, but after wounding his brother Artaxerxes, Cyrus was killed. |
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| | A Chronological Bible Timeline: Part 4, 560 B.C. - 70 A.D |
| | April 474 BC Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of King Ahasuerus. | | | A copy of the document was to be issued as a decree in every province and published to all people, so that the Jews would be ready on that day to avenge themselves on their enemies. | | | One the day the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, the opposite occurred, in that the Jews themselves overpowered those who hated them. |
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http://www.abiblestudy.com/part4.html
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| | Early empirical tendency, substituting physical explanation for myth (as in the insight that the rainbow is not a goddess, Iris, but the effect of sunlight upon water in the air). | | | Thucydides: ~460-~404 BC; author of first systematic and analytical history, The History of the Pelopennesian War. | | | Probably the first systematic cosmologist, placing the earth, unsupported, at the center of the cosmos. |
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http://depts.washington.edu/lsearlec/205/Supplementary/CHRONO-1.DOC
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| | The Oera Linda Book |
| | Even historians are aware of a global catastrophe about 2,200 BC. | | | Written at Liudwerd, in the year 3449 after Atland was submerged - that is, according to the Christian reckoning, the year 1256. | | | In my opinion was Atland situated in the present North Sea and sunk in a period of global catastrophic events around 2,200 BC. |
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http://www.earth-history.com/Europe/Oera/oera-intro.htm
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| | The Artemision of Ephesus |
| | This temple was rebuilt with the same dimensions but on a higher level. | | | This implies that around 600 BC two main cults existed at the site. | | | Although Ephesus has been visited by many people since the time of Cyriacus of Ancona (1446 AD), archaeological investigations did not begin before the second half of the 19th century. |
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http://homepage.univie.ac.at/elisabeth.trinkl/forum/forum0897/04artem.htm
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| | The Greek philosopher Plato (427-347 BC) describes in his dialogs Critias and Timaeus the disappearance of Atlantis, a circular island populated by talented people of high culture and wealth. | | | Volcanoes like Santorini, however, are inherently unpredictable, and we cannot rule out the possibility of another catastrophic eruption reminiscent of ~1630 BC. | | | The historic record would suggest that it will be a small-to-moderate eruption typical of those over the last 2000 years. |
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http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes_work/santorini.html
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| | History |
| | This is where the cult statue of the temple could have been found during this period (Scherrer 51). | | | This temple was built in the Ionic order, which was the most popular temple style during this time. | | | The structure of the Hecatompedos was then incorporated into the Croesus temple, which explains the fact the Hecatompedos must have come prior to the Crosesus temple. |
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http://filebox.vt.edu/users/gevans/art4384/history.html
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| | Articles - Amel-Marduk |
| | According to the Book of Kings, he pardoned and released Jehoiachin, king of Judah, who had been a prisoner in Babylon for thirty-seven years. | | | 560 BC), called Evil-merodach in the Hebrew Bible, was the son and successor of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon. | | | He reigned only two years (562 - 560 BC). |
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http://www.lastring.com/articles/Amel-Marduk?mySession=6e4d1899078fb1cb4091f648cfbfe5f0
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| | Pisistratus on Encyclopedia.com |
| | His coup (c.560 BC) was probably not unpopular. | | | Re-running Marathon.(battle of Marathon in 490 BC decisive for Greeks) | | | His rivals, the Alcmaeonidae and the aristocracy, managed to exile him twice, but in his last years he established himself sufficiently to leave Athens in the hands of his sons, Hippias and Hipparchus. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/P/Pisistra.asp
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| | stater of Siris and Pyxos, 560-510 BC ca. |
| | incuse: bull head reverted PYX(OE 7.74 g SNG München 3, 1153 1st specimen (this one) 2nd specimen, 550 BC ca. | | | stater of Siris and Pyxos, 560-510 BC ca. |
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http://www.bio.vu.nl/home/vwielink/WWW_MGC/Lucania_map/SirisPyxos_map/descrSirisPyxos_stater.html
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| | World History 900- 700 BC |
| | - In about 945 B.C., Libyan settlers in Egypt managed to seize control under the leadership of Shishak, who founded the Twenty-Second Dynasty. | | | Solomon instituted new methods of government and entered into a series of alliances to ensure that his Kingdom would remain at peace. | | | - According to legend, Rome was founded in 753 B.C. Its traditional founder was Romulus, said to be the son of a princess of Alba Longa. |
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| | Gods and Heroes |
| | Closeup (Attic red figure Calyx krater, 430 BC) [Beazley Archive] | | | Torso found in the Agora (425-400 BC) [Goddess Athena.org] | | | Hephaistos (Roman copy of a herm by Alkamenes, 420-410 BC) [Beazley Archive] |
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http://personal.ecu.edu/stevensj/clas2000/Gods.htm
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| | Greek Art & Archaeology |
| | 500 BC West pediment - Athena and Greek heroes | | | 580 BC Gorgon from the cemter of pediment | | | 3 - Aristion stele, late 6th century BC Painted reconstruction |
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http://www.usc.edu/dept/finearts/slide/pollini/Master.Lecture9.html
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| | WIST - A Collection of Quotations :: A |
| | Say not unto thyself, Behold, truth breedeth hatred, and I will avoid it; dissimulation raiseth friends, and I will follow it. | | | The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance. | | | Know thyself as the pride of His creation, the link uniting divinity and matter; behold a part of God Himself within thee; remember thine own dignity nor dare descend to evil or meanness. |
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| | Alyattes II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | For several years he continued the war against Miletus begun by his father, but was obliged to turn his attention to the Medes and Babylonians. | | | On May 28, 585 BC, during a battle on the Halys against Cyaxares, king of Media, a solar eclipse took place (see also Thales); hostilities were suspended, peace concluded, and the Halys fixed as the boundary between the two kingdoms. | | | Alyattes II, king of Lydia (619-560 BC), the real founder of the, was the son of Sadyattes, of the house of the. |
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http://www.bexley.us/project/wikipedia/index.php/Alyattes_II
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| | The Ultimate Megacles - American History Information Guide and Reference |
| | Megacles was convicted of killing Cylon (who had taken refuge on the Acropolis as a suppliant of Athena) and was exiled from the city, along with all the other members of his genos, the Alcmaeonidae. | | | Megacles was a member of the Alcmaeonidae family, and the archon eponymous in 632 BC when Cylon made his unsuccessful attempt to take over Athens. | | | Megacles was a possibly legendary King of Athens from 922 BC to 892 BC. |
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http://www.historymania.com/american_history/Megacles
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| | ARCL2001: Lecture 2 |
| | Kore from the east pediment of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, 510-500 BC. | | | Pherekydes and Eusebius report that the Panathenaic Games were instituted in 566 BC. | | | The Tyrannicides, copy in Naples, National Museum of a lost work of 477/6 BC by Kritios and Nesiotes. |
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http://teaching.arts.usyd.edu.au/archaeology/arcl2001/lecture_2.htm
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| | goGreece.com: Delphi Museum and The Sanctuary of Apollo |
| | BC was a flourishing one for the sanctuary at Delphi, which was adorned with buildings and a large number of votives dedicated to Apollo by the Greek cities and private individuals. | | | BC, one dedicated to Apollo and the other to Athena. | | | BC Delphi became a member of the Amphiktyony - a union of city-states with common political aims -, which protected the sanctuary from the designs of conquerors. |
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| | Contemporaries 800 BC-AD 600, Greek Mythology Link. |
| | Theban strategist, killed in battle in 362 BC. | | | Known as Fulgentius Mythographus, he was influential during the Middle Ages, when his "Mitologiarum libri tres" explained the myths by etymology and allegorism. | | | 428-354 BC), follower of Socrates, military leader, and historian. |
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http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/Contemporaries.html
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| | MavicaNET - Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC) |
| | B.C. and eventually was freed by his master. | | | Каталог / Култура / Изкуство / Литература / Според жанрове / Fables / Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC) | | | Каталог / Култура / Науки / Хуманитарни науки / Археология / Цивилизации от миналото / Ancient Greece / Древно гръцко изкуство / Старогръцка литература / Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC) |
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| | Alyattes -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Most scholars now believe that the Cimmerians assaulted Urartu (Armenia) about 714 BC, but in 705, after being... | | | In 705 BC Sargon II himself undertook a campaign in this region, and the Assyrian king was killed in battle, an unprecedented occurrence. | | | During the late 8th and early 7th centuries BC, the Assyrian kings had to fight various wars to maintain their positions in southeastern Anatolia. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9005970?tocId=9005970
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| | BCF Gifts at Work - Boston College |
| | Mike was one of 560 BC students who spent their Spring Break volunteering for Appalachia Volunteers, a program that helps impoverished people and communities throughout the Appalachia region of the United States. | | | Contact the BC Fund: (888) 752-6438 or bcfund@bc.edu | | | "BC is such a small part of the country. |
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http://www.bc.edu/friends/invest/bcfund/gifts_0404
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| | [ The Greeks ] - Site Index |
| | 479 BC - Themistocles and the aftermath of war | | | 440 BC - Aspasia and Pericles: A Marriage Forbidden | | | 429 BC - The Long Death of Pericles |
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| | Thales |
| | However, none of his writing survives so it is difficult to determine his views or to be certain about his mathematical discoveries. | | | He dissuaded his compatriots from accepting an alliance with Croesus and, as a result, saved the city. | | | The claims that Thales used the Babylonian saros, a cycle of length 18 years 10 days 8 hours, to predict the eclipse has been shown by Neugebauer to be highly unlikely since Neugebauer shows in [11] that the saros was an invention of Halley. |
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| | Images of Athena |
| | Athena, Heracles, Cerberus, Hades, Persephone in Underworld: Leagros Group, 520 BC | | | Athena, Heracles supporting the sky, and Atlas: Olympia, temple of Zeus, ca 470-456 BC | | | Athena: Temple of Aphaia in Aegina, ca 500-490 BC |
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| | Eregli -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | The town was founded about 560 BC as Heraclea Pontica by a colony of Megarians who soon subjected the native Mariandynians and extended their control over most of the coast. | | | Ordu was the site of ancient Cotyora, founded by Greek colonists from Sinope (modern Sinop) in the 5th century BC, and is the place from which the survivors of Xenophon's Ten... | | | In 74 BC it sided with the Pontic king Mithridates VI the Great against the Romans, who captured and burned the town. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9032878?tocId=9032878
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| | The Aeginetans were finally expelled from their island in 431 BC, and were not to return till the defeat of Athens in 404 BC. | | | 510 and 480 BC, and remained in circulation for many years after production had ceased. | | | The Aeginetans issued huge quantities of didrachm staters during the late 6th and early 5th centuries BC, and these turtles circulated widely throughout Hellas and the Mediterranean. |
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| | Literary Encyclopedia: Solon |
| | The account of Solon offered by Herodotus in book 1 of his Histories (c. | | | 330 BC); the speech of Demosthenes On the False Legation (343 BC); the biographer Plutarch's Life of Solon (c. | | | He was considered by later Greeks to be an important moral authority, the source of maxims such as “know thyself” and “nothing to excess”, and one of the Seven Wise Men of ancient Greece. |
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| | Delos was a sacred island and received dedications such as this from all over the Greek world. | | | The birthplace of Apollo, it was considered the hub of the Cyclades and in the 5th century gave its name to a defensive partnership, the Delian League. | | | Chryselephantine Apollo, Delphi c.550-540 BC (2/3 lifesize) Delphi Archaeological Museum |
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| | CLASS 102 Images |
| | Temple of Artemis Pediment, 590 BC Zeus and Cronos | | | Hades and Persephone in their palace in the Underworld 323 BC Orpheus and his Lyre | | | Artemis as Mistress of Beasts, ca 680 BC |
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| | World history 600- 500 BC |
| | - Cyrus was succeeded by Darius I in 521 B.C. Darius spent the first years of his administration suppressing revolts that seemed to develop in every part of the Empire. | | | - 509 BC is the year that has traditionally been given as the founding of the Roman Republic. | | | Egypt entered a long period of turmoil and foreign conflict. |
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| | ARCL2001: Lecture 4 |
| | The first painter who identifies himself by placing his signature on his work is Sophilos: "Sophilos m'egrapsen" ("Sophilos painted me") is written in ancient Greek between the columns of the house drawn at top right. | | | The years 560-525 BC see Athenian black-figure reach its mature prime. | | | On the body can be seen the running gorgon sisters of Medusa: Medusa herself falls to the ground, having been beheaded by Perseus. |
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http://teaching.arts.usyd.edu.au/archaeology/arcl2001/lecture_4.htm
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| | Parthenon 447-432 BC Propylaia 437-432 BC Temple of Athena Nike 427-424 BC Erechtheion 421-405 BC Iktinos and Kallikrates | | | Temple of Artemis at Corfu, 600-580 BC Temple of Hera (Basilica) at Paestum, c. | | | 550 BC Temple of Aphaia on Aigina, c. |
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| | Museum of Classical Archaeology guidebook |
| | The very big kouros from Sunium (no. 6) to the left, is an eccentric work of about 600 BC; and the Dipylon Head, no. 7, on a pedestal near the counter, is a product of the same workshop. | | | A peculiar form of Greek sculpture is that of the pediments (or low gables) at the ends of some Doric temples. | | | The earliest pedimental sculpture known, from around 580 BC, is from the Temple of Artemis at Corfu or Corcyra (no. 12, on the left wall of Bay A). |
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| | 563 BC |
| | This page was last modified 14:07, 29 Mar 2003. | | | The article about 563 BC contains information related to 563 BC. |
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| | Alyattes on Encyclopedia.com |
| | The remains of his tomb can still be seen N of Sardis. | | | He made peace (585 BC) with Cyaxares of Media, continued the Lydian conquest of the Ionian cities of Asia Minor, drove the Cimmerians from Asia, and subdued the Carians. |
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| | Athens, Archaic period amphorai - Kleitia's krater, 570-560 BC |
| | Athens, Archaic period amphorai - Kleitia's krater, 570-560 BC Archaic Period | | | Black figure mixing bowl (krater) depicting scenes from mythology. | | | In the top frieze the fight of the Greeks and Centaurs |
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| | Archaic Greek Sculpture |
| | Athena from the Peisistratid Temple to Athena on the Acropolis (Athens, Acroplis Museum) c520 BC Warriors from the east pediment, Peisistratid Temple to Athena on the Acropolis. | | | Zeus Abducting Ganymede, Olympia (c470 BC) polychromed terracotta acroterion from the Temple of Zeus | | | 560 BC Aristodikos, grave marker (Athens, National Museum |
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| | "Although Pythagoras (560 BC) understood the power of universal harmonics and was successful at reproducing them, he believed the principles of music, as all other areas of knowledge, could not be firmly established in the minds of his students without a system of symbolic representation. | | | For this reason he set out to discover a means by which to quantify and communicate the elements of music. | | | The story in this book on page 80-82 goes as follows... |
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| | Lord Buddha |
| | Buddha was born in B.C. 560 and died at the age of eighty in B.C. The place of his birth was a grove known as Lumbini, near the city of Kapilavastu, at the foot of Mount Palpa in the Himalayan ranges within Nepal. | | | This small city Kapilavastu stood on the bank of the little river Rohini, some hundred miles north-east of the city of Varnasi. |
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| | The Temple of Artemis |
| | The Artemision, or Temple of Artemis (Diana), at Ephesus in Ionia was famous since c.560 BC, when a monumental temple was erected by Chersiphron and his son Metagenes of Crete. | | | The original Artemision, reportedly the finest example of early Ionic architecture, burned in the rebellion of 356 BC; it was rebuilt on a higher base and decorated by Scopas and Apelles. | | | The columns of the porch carried reliefs of mythical characters and inscriptions recording donations by King Croesus (r. |
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| | Osprey Publishing - The Persian Army 560—330 BC |
| | Sign up for a personalised Osprey newsletter to get information about new books in your favourite series or period. | | | Persians, Greeks, Carthaginians and Romans 546—146 BC (Elite 121) | | | The army he commanded included the infamous 'Immortals', who formed the elite of the Persian army, their numbers always kept to exactly 10,000 men. |
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| | Quotation Search - Quote Search - The Quotations Page |
| | Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC), The Milkmaid and Her Pail | | | Do not count your chickens before they are hatched. | | | Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC), The Fox and the Lion |
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