A short history of Ancient Greece, from the arrival of the first Greeks in the Bronze Age all the way to the Roman conquests in the first century BCE.
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Sources:
Herodotus, “Histories”
Thucydides, "History of the Peloponnesian War"
Hesiod, "Theogony"
Sarah B. Pomeroy, "A Brief History of Ancient Greece"
Thomas R. Martin, “Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times”
Anthony Everitt, "The Rise of Athens"
Special thanks to:
tjcold, Ayen Logic
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:40 - Theogony
02:48 - Geography
04:31 - Bronze Age
08:33 - Bronze Age Collapse
10:24 - Greek Dark Ages
12:58 - Archaic age
16:30 - Rise of Sparta
17:52 - Rise of Athens
20:10 - Persian wars
23:10 - Athenian Hegemony
24:15 - Peloponnese War
29:53 - Spartan Hegemony
31:24 - Theban Hegemony
33:27 - Rise of Macedonia
37:29 - Alexander the Great
44:14 - Hellenistic Period
49:28 - Roman Conquest