507 BC

Boeotia or Beotia (World Book «bee OH shuh») (Greek Βοιωτια; see also List of traditional Greek place names) was the central area of ancient Greece. It is also a prefecture of modern Greece, see Boeotia Prefecture. The oldest city of Greece was sited there and was named Graia (Γραία) which means ancient or old. From the name of this city the word "Greece" derives. Aristotle said that this city was created before the deluge. The same assertion about the origins of Graia city was found also in an ancient marb ...

Read more here: » Boeotia: Encyclopedia - Boeotia

Aegina (Greek: Αίγινα Egina), one of the Saronic Islands of Greece in the Saronic Gulf, 31 miles (50 km) from Athens. Tradition derives the name from Aegina, the mother of Aeacus, who was born in and ruled the island. In shape Aegina is triangular, eight miles (13 km) long from northwest to southeast, and six miles (15 km) broad, with an area of about 41 square miles (106 km²). Two thirds of Aegina constitute an extinct volcano. The northern and western side consist of stony but fertile plains, which are well cultivated ...

Including:

• Aegina - Antiquities
• Aegina - Ancient History
• Aegina - Modern History
• Aegina - Communities and villages
• Aegina - Historical population
• Aegina - Daughter of Asopus

Read more here: » Aegina: Encyclopedia - Aegina

Bacchylides, Ancient Greek lyric poet, was born at Iulis, in the island of Ceos. His father’s name was probably Meidon; his mother was a sister of Simonides, himself a native of Iulis. Eusebius says that Bacchylides "flourished" in 467 BC. As the term used by him refers to the physical prime, and was commonly placed at about the fortieth year, we may suppose that Bacchylides was born circa 507 BC. Among his Odes the earliest that can be approximately dated to 481 or 479 BC; the latest date is fixed by the recently found fragm ...

Read more here: » Bacchylides: Encyclopedia - Bacchylides

The grassy area in front of the bema was in ancient times an area of bare rock, in which about 6,000 men could stand. This can be taken as a reasonable estimate of the number of politically active citizens (citizens were free males born in the city, or perhaps 20% of the adult population). There were wooden seats for the members of the Council of 500, who were elected by the Assembly to run the city on a day-to-day basis. In later times two stoas, or covered galleries, were built to protec ...

See also:

Pnyx, Pnyx - The site, Pnyx - Athenian democracy, Pnyx - Excavations

Read more here: » Pnyx: Encyclopedia II - Pnyx - Athenian democracy

Aegina, according to Herodotus (v. 83), was a colony of Epidaurus, to which state it was originally subject. The discovery in the island of a number of gold ornaments belonging to the latest period of Mycenaean art suggests the inference that the Mycenaean culture held its own in Aegina for some generations after the Dorian conquest of Argos and Lacedaemon (see A. J. Evans, in Journal of Hellenic Studies, vol. xiii. p. 195). It is probable that the island was not dorized before the 9th century BC One of the earliest facts known to us in its ...

See also:

Aegina, Aegina - Antiquities, Aegina - Ancient History, Aegina - Modern History, Aegina - Communities and villages, Aegina - Historical population, Aegina - Daughter of Asopus

Read more here: » Aegina: Encyclopedia II - Aegina - Ancient History

The archaeological interest of Aegina is centred in the well-known temple on the ridge near the northern corner of the island. Excavations were made on its site in 1811 by Baron Haller von Hallerstein and the English architect C. R. Cockerell, who discovered a considerable number of the sculptures from the pediment, which was bought in 1812 by the crown prince Louis of Bavaria; the groups were set up in the Glyptothek at Munich after the figures had been restored by Bertel Thorvaldsen. His restoration was somewhat drastic, the ancient parts being cut away to allow of additions in marble, and the new parts treated i ...

See also:

Aegina, Aegina - Antiquities, Aegina - Ancient History, Aegina - Modern History, Aegina - Communities and villages, Aegina - Historical population, Aegina - Daughter of Asopus

Read more here: » Aegina: Encyclopedia II - Aegina - Antiquities

Compared to the better known surviving monuments of ancient Athens, such as the Parthenon, the Pnyx is unspectacular. It is a small hill surrounded by parkland, with a large flat platform of eroded stone set into its side. But it is one of the most significant sites in the city, and indeed in the world. For the Pnyx was the meeting place of the world's first democratic legislature, the Athenian ekklesia (assembly), and the flat stone is the < ...

See also:

Pnyx, Pnyx - The site, Pnyx - Athenian democracy, Pnyx - Excavations

Read more here: » Pnyx: Encyclopedia II - Pnyx - The site