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Archaic Greece

Classical Greece

Hellenistic Greece

Greco-Roman

Ancient Greek astronomy

Treatises

Extant	Almagest (Ptolemy) Analemma (Ptolemy) Commentary on the Phenomena (Hipparchus) Diosemeia (Aratus) Handy Tables (Ptolemy) Hypotosis (Proclus) Introduction to the Phenomena (Geminus) On Risings and Settings (Autolycus) On Ascensions (Hypsicles) On Days and Nights (Theodosius) On Habitations (Theodosius) On the Circular Motions of the Celestial Bodies (Cleomedes) On the Heavens (Aristotle) On the Sizes and Distances (Aristarchus) On Mathematics Useful for the Understanding of Plato (Theon of Smyrna) On the Moving Sphere (Autolycus) Phaenomena (Euclid) Phenomena (Aratus) Planisphaerium (Ptolemy) Planetary Hypothesis (Ptolemy) Risings of the Fixed Stars (Ptolemy) Spherics (Menelaus) Spherics (Theodosius) The Sand Reckoner (Archimedes)
Fragmentary	Catasterismi (Eratosthenes) Commentary on the Almagest (Pappus) Commentary on the Almagest (Theon of Alexandria) Great Commentary on the Handy Tables (Theon of Alexandria) History of Astronomy (Eudemus) Little Commentary on the Handy Tables (Theon of Alexandria) Meteoroscope (Ptolemy) On the Measurement of the Earth (Eratosthenes) On Nature (Anaximander) On Nature (Philolaus) On Sizes and Distances (Hipparchus) Star Catalogue (Hipparchus) Untitled Work on Heliocentrism (Aristarchus)
Lost	Analemma (Diodorus) Astronomia (Hesiod) Description of the Heavens (Democritus) Commentary on Aratus (Theon of Alexandria) Commentary on the Analemma of Diodorus (Pappus) Disappearances of the Sun (Eudoxus) Eneptron (Eudoxus) On Fixed Stars (Anaximander) On Speeds (Eudoxus) On the Displacement of the Solstitial and Equinoctial Points (Hipparchus) On the Eight-Year Lunisolar-Venus Cycle (Eudoxus) On the Equinox (Thales) On the Great Year (Democritus) On the Length of the Year (Hipparchus) On the Solstice (Thales) On the Sphere (Achilles Tatius) Nautical Star-guide (Thales) Phaenomena (Eudoxus) Planispheres (Democritus) Rotation of the Earth (Anaximander) Treatise on the Astrolabe (Theon of Alexandria)
Compilations	Little Astronomy

Instruments

Concepts

Influences

Influenced

Timeline

Periods	Cycladic civilization Minoan civilization Mycenaean Greece Greek Dark Ages Archaic Greece Classical Greece Hellenistic Greece Roman Greece
Geography	Aegean Sea Aeolis Crete Cyrenaica Cyprus Doris Epirus Hellespont Ionia Ionian Sea Macedonia Magna Graecia Peloponnesus Pontus Taurica Ancient Greek colonies

Kingdoms

Federations/
Confederations

Doric Hexapolis (c. 1100 – c. 560 BC)
Italiote League (c. 800–389 BC)
Ionian League (c. 650–404 BC)
Peloponnesian League (c. 550–366 BC)
Amphictyonic League (c. 595–279 BC)
Acarnanian League (c. 500–31 BC)
Hellenic League (499–449 BC)
Delian League (478–404 BC)
Chalcidian League (430–348 BC)
Boeotian League (c. 424–c. 395 BC)
Aetolian League (c. 400–188 BC)
Second Athenian League (378–355 BC)
Thessalian League (374–196 BC)
Arcadian League (370–c. 230 BC)
Epirote League (370–168 BC)
League of Corinth (338–322 BC)
Euboean League (c. 300 BC–c. 300 AD)
Achaean League (280–146 BC)

Boule Free city Koinon Proxeny Stasis Symmachia Tagus Tyrant
Athenian	Agora Areopagus Dikasterion Ecclesia Graphe paranomon Heliaia Ostracism
Spartan	Ekklesia Ephor Gerousia
Macedon	Synedrion Koinon

List of ancient Greeks
Rulers	Kings of Argos Archons of Athens Kings of Athens Kings of Commagene Diadochi Kings of Macedonia Kings of Paionia Attalid kings of Pergamon Kings of Pontus Ptolemaic dynasty Seleucid dynasty Kings of Sparta Tyrants of Syracuse
Artists & scholars	Astronomers Geographers Historians Mathematicians Philosophers Playwrights Poets Seven Sages Writers
Philosophers	Anaxagoras Anaximander Anaximenes Antisthenes Aristippus Aristotle Democritus Diogenes of Sinope Empedocles Epicurus Gorgias Heraclitus Hypatia Leucippus Parmenides Plato Protagoras Pythagoras Socrates Thales Zeno
Authors	Aeschylus Aesop Alcaeus Archilochus Aristophanes Bacchylides Diodorus Siculus Euripides Herodotus Hesiod Hipponax Homer Ibycus Lucian Menander Mimnermus Panyassis Philocles Pindar Plutarch Polybius Sappho Simonides Sophocles Stesichorus Theognis Thucydides Timocreon Tyrtaeus Xenophon
Others	Athenian statesmen Lawgivers Olympic victors Tyrants
By culture	Ancient Greek tribes Thracian Greeks Ancient Macedonians

Arts and science

Funeral and burial practices Mythology Deities Temple Twelve Olympians Underworld
Sacred places	Eleusis Delphi Delos Dion Dodona Mount Olympus Olympia

Structures

Athenian Treasury Lion Gate Long Walls Philippeion Theatre of Dionysus Tunnel of Eupalinos
Temples	Aphaea Artemis Athena Nike Erechtheion Hephaestus Hera, Olympia Parthenon Samothrace Zeus, Olympia

Proto-Greek
Mycenaean
Homeric
Dialects
- Aeolic
- Arcadocypriot
- Attic
- Doric
- Epirote
- Ionic
- Locrian
- Macedonian
- Pamphylian
Koine

Greek colonisation

Mainland Italy	Alision Ankṓn Brentesion Caulonia Chone Croton Cumae Elea Heraclea Lucania Hipponion Hydrus Krimisa Laüs Locri Medma Metauros Metapontion Neápolis Pandosia (Lucania) Poseidonia Pixous Rhegion Scylletium Siris Sybaris Sybaris on the Traeis Taras Terina Thurii
Sicily	Akragas Akrai Akrillai Apollonia Calacte Casmenae Catana Gela Helorus Henna Heraclea Minoa Himera Hybla Gereatis Hybla Heraea Kamarina Leontinoi Megara Hyblaea Messana Naxos Segesta Selinous Syracuse Tauromenion Thermae Tyndaris

Aeolian Islands

Iberian Peninsula

Black Sea
basin

North coast	Akra Borysthenes Charax Chersonesus Dioscurias Gorgippia Hermonassa Kalos Limen Kepoi Kerkinitis Kimmerikon Myrmekion Nikonion Nymphaion Olbia Pantikapaion Phanagoria Pityus Tanais Theodosia Tyras Tyritake
South coast	Abonoteichos Amisos Anchialos Apollonia Athina Bathus Dionysopolis Cotyora Cytorus Eupatoria Heraclea Kerasous Mesambria Odessos Oinòe Phasis Polemonion Rhizos Salmydessus Sesamus Sinope Thèrmae Tium Trapezous Tripolis Zaliche

Lists
Cities in Epirus People Place names Stoae Temples Theatres

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