Ancient Greece Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
Greek civilization from c. 1200 BC to c. 600 AD
About Ancient Greece
Classical Greece was not the first civilization around the Aegean Sea. Since the 27th century BC, the Minoan culture had flourished on Crete, until displaced by the Mycenaeans around the 16th century BC. They left behind plenty of artifacts, but the only legible written records known to posterity was the cryptic Linear B script. The first written records from the Greek city-states,poleis, date to the 9th century BC. Among them are the Iliad and the Odyssey, twoepic poemsdescribing theTrojan War, supposedly fought in the 12th century BC, and part of the Greek foundation myth. TheGraeco-Roman mythologyis part of the oldest European literature, with a pantheon later adopted by the Roman Empire. The period of the 5th and 4th centuries are today known asClassical Greece. During this period, the
Ancient Greece Travel Guide Sections
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