Welcome to the historical part of this website!
In this
part of the website you will find information mainly about the history of
Ancient Greece and the regions that were once belonging to it or directly
related to it: North of Africa, Italy, France and even India.
History and mythology are
closely related. Mythology tells us stories that are somehow similar to
those that truly happened. This makes it possible to get a slight idea of
some events that occurred in the Ancient times, as for instance the Trojan
war, one of the most important mythological stories. In fact, some
findings prove that there was really an armed conflict around the year
1300 b.C., and names as Minos, Agamemnon and Theseus might be really
related to powerful personalities of the time.
Unfortunately, there are no
many findings that can show the way of life during the period comprised
from the origin of the first cultures around the year 9000 b.C. until the
beginning of the Minoan culture. The first revealing findings that tell us
about the culture, the rituals and the life style are from the golden
years of the Minoans. The Dark Age is not named like this in vane: from
this time as much as nothing has been found. From this date come the
Homeric Epics, although they have parts from other authors. With the
creation of the city-states and the colonization, new cultures were born
that were not so different from today's'.
After it was the time of the
migrations, during which many nations traveled up an down fighting to
maintain and extent their territories. The power was taken by different
people quite often, some kept it for a long time, others for didn't. With
the intervention of Macedonia Ancient Greece managed to extend its
territories until India. The end of its world, however, arrived with the
rise of the Roman Empire. After, Greece suffered again a lot with the
conquest by Turkey, from which it finally got free at the beginning of the
last century.
Personally, I find history very
interesting, among other things, because it allows you to better
understand the present. Unfortunately, most of the times this history is
dictated by the ambition of power and humanity does not seem to learn from
it.
To know a little bit more about
the Greek history, have a look at the following pages. I hope you will
enjoy it!
Mythology / History / School Visit
