Greek colonisation
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The Greek colonisation was the expansion of Archaic Greeks across the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, particularly during the 8th–6th centuries BCE.
Ruins of Abdera, a classical city of Thrace, in present-day Greece
Illustration of an Archaic Greek ship on pottery, c. 520 BC
The Argonautica, the myth thought to pertain to the bold nautical expeditions of this period
Greek colonies and their metropolitan cities depicted with red labels, while Phoenician colonies are depicted with yellow labels (4th century BC)
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 ar
Greek colonisation
…The Greek colonisation was the expansion of Archaic Greeks across the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, particularly during the 8th–6th centuries BCE. The Archaic expansion differed from the Iron Age migrations…
The Temple of Concordia, Valle dei Templi, Magna Graecia, in present-day Italy
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