Definition
The world of ancient Greece and her colonies comprising the Greek mainland, Crete, the islands of the Greek archipelago, and the coast of Asia Minor primarily (though some mention is made of countries or cities of the interior of Asia Minor). Defined chiefly by Homer in his works Illiad and Odyssey (8th century BCE) the Hellenic World was peopled by powerful gods and goddesses, heroes, nymphs and satyrs. Later historians such as Herodotus make mention of people in his day refering to the Hellenic World (though not with that phrase) as the grandeur of Greece’s past (which is ironic in that Hesiod, an 8th century contemporary of Homer, called his own age “wicked, depraved and dissolute” in his writings and hoped the future produced better things for Greece).
Major cities and kingdoms of the Hellenic World were Argos, Athens, Corinth, Knossos on Crete, Delphi, Ithaca, Olympia, Sparta, Thebes, Thrace, Troy and, of course, Mount Olympus, the home of the gods.
Major cities and kingdoms of the Hellenic World were Argos, Athens, Corinth, Knossos on Crete, Delphi, Ithaca, Olympia, Sparta, Thebes, Thrace, Troy and, of course, Mount Olympus, the home of the gods.
Articles
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Hipparchia was the wife of Crates, a very popular Athenian philosopher. She was also notable for her brazen abandonment of her aristocratic upbringing...
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Illustrations
Hellenic World Books
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McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages (01 August 1995)Price: $103.44 -
University of California Press (19 March 1993)Price: $23.48 -
University of California Press (08 July 2008)Price: $32.69 -
Oxford University Press, USA (22 July 1999)Currently unavailable -
Routledge (31 March 1999)Price: $35.78
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