Ancient Greece
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Meaning
The Greek-speaking world in ancient times, geographically referring not only to modern Greece and southern Balkan peninsula but also to areas of Hellenic culture that were settled during ancient times by Greeks: Cyprus, the Aegean coast of Ionia, southern Italian peninsula and Sicily (known as Magna Graecia) and the scattered Greek settlements on the coasts of what are now Albania, Bulgaria, Egypt, Libya, southern France, southern Spain, Catalonia, Georgia, Romania, and Ukraine.
The civilization that flourished around the Mediterranean Sea from the 3rd millennium to the 1st century BCE (including the first two European civilizations, Minoan and Mycenaean), known as the cradle of Western civilization.
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Ancient Greece Sagitta can be seen above Aquila in this plate from Urania's Mirror (1825).
Ancient Greece The Greeks had no word for what later would be called "satire", although the terms cynicism and parody were used.
Antiquity The houses in Ancient Greece were commonly of the atrium -type: the rooms were arranged around a central courtyard for women.
At least in Britain, each registered notary has an individual personal seal, registered with the authorities, which includes his or her name and a pictorial emblem, often an animal - the same combination found in many seals from Ancient Greece.
Cicero describes one invented by Archimedes; Hipparchus had made another; two first century A.D. models were commemorated in the Greek Anthology;', Thomas, 'Paths from Ancient Greece', p. 69 (1988).
Ancient Greece had skilled painters, sculptors (though both endeavours were regarded as mere manual labour at the time), and architects.