gres, gre'-sha;
1. Name:
In the earliest times there was no single name universally and exclusively in use either of the people or of the land of Greece. In Homer, three appellations, (Achaioi), (Danaoi), (Argeioi), were with no apparent discrimination applied to all the Greeks. By the Orientals...
From Plutarch's Lives, still inspirational after 19 centuries:
15 Ancient Greek Heroes
from Plutarch's Lives
Ploutarcou
A modern English edition, abridged and annotated by Wilmot H. McCutchen
Preface
It's brief, so start here, then read these biographies in chronological order:
Theseus
The Athenian...
"I will stir up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and will make thee as the sword of a mighty man" (Zec 9:13). The passage doubtless refers to the captive Hebrews who are held by the Greeks. The exhortation is to insurrection against the Greeks. Although bearing a striking similarity to ...
A History of Ancient Greece
The Glory That Was Greece
Date: 1992
Ancient Greece and Ethics
Early Greece was the birthplace of Western philosophical ethics. The ideas of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, who flourished in the 5th and 4th centuries BC, will be discussed in the next section. The sudden...
(all dates B.C.)
circa 9000 Atlantis disappears.
circa 1600 Island of Thera explodes, causing a tidal wave that inundates coastal settlements in the Aegean, and cripples the civilization of Crete.
circa 1300 Theseus establishes the city of Athens.
circa 1250 Troy falls to Agamemnon and his Greek a...
1. Greek Idea of Sin:
The ancient Hebrew religion made much of sin, and of the remedy for sin which God, in loving mercy to His people, had provided; in Greece the thought of sin found no such place in the religious life, though of course it was not absent altogether. If sin is defined as that which...
