Quotes About History

This is why, when the Greeks adapted this system for their own use, they called it the 'alphabet'.

brought by barge down the Nile from temples hundreds of miles away

The campaign that cost Julian his life was part of a series of wars on the empire's eastern frontier

that would drag on inconclusively for most of the next three centuries.

From then on, this would remain the official title, in Greek, of every ruler to rule from Constantinople

At almost exactly the same moment, far to the south, the valley of the Nile is lit up.

This had been the number of Spartans killed during the defence of the pass of Thermopylae in 480 BCE

The sun first catches the tops of the pyramids of Giza, which are already some fifteen hundred years old.

remembered ever since as the most heroic act of self-sacrifice during the Persian Wars.

The military machine that had humbled Athens in the Peloponnesian War had become simply irrelevant.

But in 1500 BCE, they are not ruled directly from Hattusa.

Heraclius entered Jerusalem on 21 March 630, at the head of a solemn procession

The city is known to the Hittites as Millawanda and will later enter Greek history under the name Miletus.

One ethnos that never did adopt the polis system was Macedonia.

This is the kingdom of the Hittites.

More Greeks actually fought on the Persian side against him than under his banner.

were in charge and known as the Antigonids.

Constantinople was now the largest and richest city in Europe

Pericles was among its victims. It was the first pandemic in recorded history. Thucydides, who himself became infected

Philip ('Horse-Loving'), Cleopatra ('Father's Fame'), Ptolemy ('Warlike

the highest levels of Macedonian society were thoroughly Greek-speaking by the mid-fourth century BCE.

In the years 416 and 415 BCE, Athens had recovered sufficiently to embark on two of the most notorious episodes of the war

episodes of the war

Macedonian centres of population began to look like Greek cities.