• Thumbnail for Economy of ancient Greece
    The economy of ancient Greece was defined largely by the region's dependence on imported goods. As a result of the poor quality of Greece's soil, agricultural...
    18 KB (2,430 words) - 13:18, 4 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ancient Greece
    Ancient Greece (Ancient Greek: Ἑλλάς, romanized: Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th...
    81 KB (9,405 words) - 07:38, 23 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Agriculture in ancient Greece
    Agriculture was the foundation of the Ancient Greek economy. Nearly 80% of the population was involved in this activity. Most Greek language agricultural texts...
    17 KB (2,228 words) - 12:38, 22 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Economy of Greece
    The economy of Greece is the 52nd largest in the world, with a nominal gross domestic product (GDP) of $252.732 billion per annum. In terms of purchasing...
    193 KB (15,615 words) - 04:58, 17 November 2024
  • The Ancient Economy is an influential book about the economic system of classical antiquity written by the classicist Moses I. Finley. It was originally...
    9 KB (1,281 words) - 14:41, 17 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pottery of ancient Greece
    durability, comprises a large part of the archaeological record of ancient Greece, and since there is so much of it (over 100,000 painted vases are recorded...
    59 KB (7,456 words) - 11:52, 22 August 2024
  • Animals had a variety of roles and functions in ancient Greece and Rome. Fish and birds were served as food. Species such as donkeys and horses served...
    78 KB (9,030 words) - 23:09, 11 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Outline of ancient Greece
    overview of and topical guide to ancient Greece: Ancient Greece – Towns of ancient Greece List of ancient Greek cities Regions of ancient Greece Peloponnese...
    26 KB (2,170 words) - 10:04, 20 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ancient Greek crafts
    Ancient Greek crafts (or the craftsmanship in Ancient Greece) was an important but largely undervalued, economic activity. It involved all activities of...
    32 KB (4,793 words) - 01:36, 4 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Classical demography
    determining the size and structure of the economy of Ancient Greece and the Roman economy. From around 800 BC, Greek city-states began colonizing the Mediterranean...
    19 KB (2,202 words) - 09:01, 21 November 2024
  • Agora of Athens Ancient Corinth Ancient Elis Ancient Greece Ancient GreeceAncient India relations Ancient Greece and wine Ancient Greek Ancient Greek accent...
    151 KB (13,185 words) - 15:56, 4 October 2024
  • Ateleia (Attic Greek: ἀτέλεια; privative a + τέλος telos (tax); see also philately) in ancient Greece was a general immunity (ἄδεια adeia) or exemption...
    4 KB (612 words) - 16:45, 12 February 2022
  • Thumbnail for Liturgy (ancient Greece)
    liturgy (Greek: λειτουργία or λῃτουργία, leitourgia, from λαός / Laos, "the people" and the root ἔργο / ergon, "work" ) was in ancient Greece a public...
    42 KB (6,073 words) - 20:20, 24 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Agora of the Competaliasts
    2663 The Agora of the Competaliasts (Greek: Αγορά των Κομπεταλιαστών) is an ancient Greek archaeological site on the island of Delos, Greece, which dates...
    1 KB (201 words) - 08:59, 31 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Moria (tree)
    Moria (tree) (category Economy of ancient Greece)
    In ancient Greece, the moriai (plural of moria) were olive trees considered to be the property of the state because of their religious significance. From...
    6 KB (662 words) - 21:05, 3 November 2024
  • The banker of ancient times was employed within financial activities, during the ancient Mesopotamian, ancient Greek and ancient Roman periods. While...
    21 KB (2,040 words) - 06:09, 25 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Ancient Macedonians
    Haliacmon and lower Axios in the northeastern part of mainland Greece. Essentially an ancient Greek people, they gradually expanded from their homeland...
    188 KB (20,334 words) - 22:57, 21 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Agora
    Agora (redirect from Agora (Greek))
    agora (/ˈæɡərə/; Ancient Greek: ἀγορά, romanized: agorá, meaning "market" in Modern Greek) was a central public space in ancient Greek city-states. It...
    7 KB (675 words) - 14:01, 29 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Roman economy
    The study of the economies of the ancient city-state of Rome and its empire during the Republican and Imperial periods remains highly speculative. There...
    62 KB (7,320 words) - 21:51, 1 April 2024
  • of ancient GreeceAncient Greek society Cuisine of Ancient GreeceEconomy of Ancient Greece – Law in Ancient Greece – Pederasty in ancient Greece...
    21 KB (1,463 words) - 12:14, 24 April 2024
  • Attic talent (category Economy of ancient Greece)
    talent (a talent of the Attic standard), also known as the Athenian talent or Greek talent (Greek: τάλαντον, talanton), is an ancient unit of weight equal...
    4 KB (474 words) - 14:43, 24 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ancient Greek technology
    the ancient Greeks include the gear, screw, rotary mills, bronze casting techniques, water clock, water organ, the torsion catapult, the use of steam...
    26 KB (1,556 words) - 13:42, 15 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Auctions in ancient Greece
    Auctions in ancient Greece were events in which goods were sold through an open bidding process. Participants competed by offering higher bids, with the...
    5 KB (662 words) - 23:31, 27 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ancient Greek sculpture
    sculpture of ancient Greece is the main surviving type of fine ancient Greek art as, with the exception of painted ancient Greek pottery, almost no ancient Greek...
    37 KB (4,443 words) - 14:10, 16 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ancient economic thought
    of family economy in the country". The influence of Babylonian and Persian thought on Greek administrative economics is present in the work of Greek historian...
    44 KB (5,286 words) - 12:38, 21 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Timeline of ancient Greece
    a timeline of ancient Greece from its emergence around 800 BC to its subjection to the Roman Empire in 146 BC. For earlier times, see Greek Dark Ages,...
    64 KB (7,986 words) - 09:51, 29 October 2024
  • Agyrrhius (category Economy of ancient Greece)
    Agyrrhius/Agyrrhios (Ancient Greek: Ἀγύρριος) of the deme Collytus in Attica, was an Athenian politician in the final years of the 5th and early years of the 4th century...
    3 KB (421 words) - 08:48, 29 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Economic history of Greece and the Greek world
    period, of the 8th century BCE to the 4th century BCE is conventionally termed as 'Ancient Greece'. The main issues concerning the ancient Greek economy are...
    40 KB (5,786 words) - 10:26, 15 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Oeconomicus
    Oeconomicus (category Economy of ancient Greece)
    Tfd›Greek: Οἰκονομικός) by Xenophon is a Socratic dialogue principally about household management and agriculture. Oeconomicus comes from the Ancient Greek...
    11 KB (1,376 words) - 00:31, 25 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mines of Laurion
    Athens, in Greece. The mines are best known for producing silver, but they were also a source of copper and lead. A number of remnants of these mines...
    25 KB (3,263 words) - 04:20, 10 September 2024