Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek

Author : KETAKI GORAKH PHULSUNDAR

Ancient Greece was a civilisation belonging to a period of Greek history from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th - 9th centuries BC to the end of antiquity. This era was immediately followed by the Early Middle Ages and the Byzantine period. Roughly three centuries after the Late Bronze Age collapse of Mycanaean Greece, Greek urban poleis began to form in the 8th century BC, ushering in the Archaic period and colonization of the Mediterranean Basin. This was followed by the age of Classical Greece, from the Greco-Persian War to the 5th to 4th centuries BC. The conquests of Alexander the great of Macedon spread Hellenistic from the Western Mediterranean to the Central Asia. The Hellenistic period ended with the conquest of Eastern Mediterranean world by the Roman Republic, and the annexation of the Roman Province of Macedonia in Roman Greece, and later the province of Achea during the during the Roman Empire. Classical Greek culture especially had a powerful influence on Ancient Rome, which carried a version of it throughout the Mediterranean and much of Europe. For this reason, Classical Greece is considered as the cradle of western civilisation the seminal culture from which the modern West derives many of its founding archetypes and ideas in politics' philosophy, science and art.

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