Ancient Greece: Difference between revisions

 

Home of columned temples, chiton-wearing gods, slinkily dressed goddesses, amazons, and bearded philosophers. Also home to mythic thong-wearing heroes who ride winged horses and do great deeds (all without getting either chafed ''or'' sunburnt). The [[The Spartan Way|Spartans]]

 

In fact, this picture is a [[Anachronism Stew|blend]] of two distinct periods; mythical Greece, conventionally said to end with the [[Trojan War]] around 1000BC, and classical Greece, home to the first philosophers. The "classical Greece" period itself tends to [[Cultural Blending|blend cultures]] that evolved and combined over the course of many centuries. Until Athens pulled the city-states together for defense against Persia, Greece didn't have a monolithic culture; it was the sum of the cultures of many independent city-states, all angling to make their patron gods the most important, and all ultimately blended together in the giant food processor of history. If you were to visit the Balkan Peninsula in, say, Pythagoras' day, you'd find that religious practices and social mores varied heavily depending on what city you were in.

* [[Erastes Eromenos]]

* [[Fatal Flaw]]

* [[Let's Fight Like Gentlemen]]: It was a common lament during the Peleponesian War that new weapons and tactics had made the manly phalanx fighting obsolete.

* [[Love Potion]] (Eros's arrows)

* [[Physical God]]

* [[The Spartan Way]]

 

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* ''[[300|Three Hundred]]''

* ''[[Clash of the Titans]]'' and ''[[Jason and the Argonauts]]'' -- [[Harryhausen Movie]]s.

* ''[[Troy]]''

 

* ''[[Kid Icarus]]''

* ''[[Empire Earth]]''

* The ''[[Civilization]]'' series when playing as Greece.

* The first two games in the ''[[Hegemony Series]]''.