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Classical History blogs, specialising in Greco-Roman military history. Check out the History community for more!

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YouveBeenGreeked
@oo7harv Mar 19, 2023, 2:51 AM UTC

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https://www.psychologie-heute.de/fileadmin/1933110251284301216.jpg God Kairos (lat. Caerus, other Greek. Καιρός) the ancient Greek god of a happy moment. Kairos is an elusive moment of good fortune t…

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@oo7harv Mar 18, 2020, 5:41 PM UTC

TYRANTS of ARCHAIC GREECE - Athens, Corinth + Samos

The amount of tyrants that took control of a city in ancient Greece is near innumerable, so I've decided to limit this post to three cities I found to have the most interesting stories of being ruled…

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@oo7harv Feb 29, 2020, 4:26 PM UTC

28 OR 29 DAYS? A Roman History of FEBRUARY

As it's the 29th of February today, and as leap years only come around every 4 years, I decided to do a post on where this oddity in our calendar actually came from, and why February has so few days…

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@oo7harv Feb 29, 2020, 4:19 PM UTC

28 OR 29 DAYS? - A Roman History of FEBRUARY

As it's the 29th of February today, and as leap years only come around every 4 years, I decided to do a post on where this oddity in our calendar actually came from, and why February has so few days…

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@oo7harv Feb 28, 2020, 12:44 AM UTC

SOLON Part II - His Travels and Return to Athens

Go and check out Part 1! - SOLON BEGINS HIS TRAVELSOnce all of Solon's laws were implemented, there wasn’t a day that went by in which he didn’t receive an audience expressing their approval or dispr…

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@oo7harv Feb 28, 2020, 12:36 AM UTC

SOLON Part I: Athenian Lawmaker, Traveller and Poet

BIOGRAPHYSolon was born in around 638 BC in Athens. His father was either Euphorion or, more likely, Execestides, a man of some wealth and political influence, and from a distinguished Athenian famil…

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@oo7harv Feb 28, 2020, 12:14 AM UTC

ATHENS AND SOLON: A BRIEF HISTORY

The world’s oldest and most stable democracy emerged in Ancient Athens. The current Greek capital, Athens has remained prosperous and cultural for millennia. First settled in Neolithic times, some si…

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@oo7harv Feb 28, 2020, 12:07 AM UTC

MY SPARTAN DRAWING

While I'm working on my next blog post on Athens and the reforms of Solon (SPOILERS), here's a drawing I did a while back of a Spartan hoplite, for last weeks post, which you should definitely go che…

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@oo7harv Feb 28, 2020, 12:02 AM UTC

LYCURGUS + THE REFORMATION OF SPARTA

“It occurred to me one day that Sparta, although one of the more thinly populated of the Greek states, was evidently the most powerful and most celebrated city in Greece, and I fell to wondering how…

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@oo7harv Feb 27, 2020, 11:57 PM UTC

EMERGENCE OF THE CITY-STATE

EARLY COLONISATION Greek colonisation occurred in two stages. The first, centred around the 11th to 9th centuries, took the Greeks across the Greek mainland, the Aegean Islands and to Asia Minor. The…

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