Archaic Greece
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Archaic Greece was the period in Greek history lasting from c. 800 BC to the second Persian invasion of Greece in 480 BC, following the Greek Dark Ages and succeeded by the Classical period. In the archaic period, Greeks settled across the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea: by the end of the period, they were part of a trade network that spanned the entire Mediterranean.
The gymnasium and palaestra at Olympia, the site of the ancient Olympic games. The archaic period conventionally dates from the first Olympiad.
Ruins of the Temple of Apollo within the polis of Ancient Corinth, built c. 540 BC, with the Acrocorinth (the city's acropolis) seen in the background
The lawgiver Solon reformed the Athenian constitution, which led to significant developments in Greece at the time
The Temple of Concordia, Valle dei Templi, Magna Graecia, in present-day Italy
History of Greece
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The history of Greece encompasses the history of the territory of the modern nation-state of Greece as well as that of the Greek people and the areas they inhabited and ruled historically. The scope of Greek habitation and rule has varied throughout the ages and as a result, the history of Greece is similarly elastic in what it includes.
The ancient theatre of Dodona
The Temple of Hephaestus in Athens
Bust of Herodotus in Stoa of Attalus, one of the earliest nameable historians whose work survives.
Leonidas at Thermopylae by Jacques-Louis David.