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Work and wages varied immensely in ancient Greece. Agriculture was the backbone of the economy but work was available in ...

Few figures in ancient mythology remain as legendary to this day as Odysseus, the fabled Greek king of Ithaca who devised the ...

ABSTRACT: The Panionia, the common festival of the Ionian Greeks of Asia Minor that took place in the Panionion sanctuary, was a focal point for the development of a common Ionian identity during the ...

In the 6th century BC, at the peak of the Greek Archaic period, Priene was a small Ionian city overlooking the Aegean Sea. Located on the coast of Caria in Anatolia, north of Miletus, Priene was not ...

The Greek iron ages occurred within this period. But, because of the lack of documents, till now historians have been working with a timeline, which uses pottery styles from Athens as its basis.

Dating back to the Archaic period about 530 B.C., and made of marble from the Greek island of Paros, the figure of a young woman had traces of orange coloring on her locks of hair.