Greek Antiquity

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civilization cultural era historical period

Greek Antiquity refers to the civilization, culture, and artistic production of ancient Greece from the early archaic period through the Hellenistic era, foundational to Western art, philosophy, and politics.

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Observed surface forms (16)

Surface form	Occurrences
Ancient Greece	195
ancient Greece	42
Archaic Greece	4
Ancient Greek civilization	2
Classical antiquity	2
Hellenistic period	2
Ancient Greece (uncertain)	1
Ancient Greek	1
Ancient Greek culture	1
Archaic Greece (as part of mythic tradition)	1
Classical Greece	1
Greece—History—To 146 B.C.	1
Greek art	1
Hellenic civilization	1
Hellenic world	1
ancient Greece (cultural sphere)	1

Statements (56)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	civilization ⓘ cultural era ⓘ historical period ⓘ
hasArchitecturalOrder	Corinthian order ⓘ Doric order ⓘ Ionic order ⓘ
hasArtForm	architecture ⓘ comedy ⓘ epic poetry ⓘ lyric poetry ⓘ sculpture ⓘ tragedy ⓘ vase painting ⓘ
hasEndPeriod	Hellenistic period ⓘ
hasKeyInstitution	Athenian democracy ⓘ Olympic Games ⓘ
hasLegacy	Western civilization ⓘ surface form: Greco-Roman culture classical tradition ⓘ
hasMajorLanguage	Ancient Greek ⓘ
hasNotableCity	Athens ⓘ Corinth ⓘ Miletus ⓘ Sparta ⓘ Thebes ⓘ
hasNotableHistorian	Herodotus ⓘ Thucydides ⓘ
hasNotablePhilosopher	Aristotle ⓘ Epicurus ⓘ Plato ⓘ Socrates ⓘ Zeno of Citium ⓘ
hasNotablePlaywright	Aeschylus ⓘ Aristophanes ⓘ Euripides ⓘ Sophocles ⓘ
hasNotablePoet	Hesiod ⓘ Homer ⓘ
hasPhilosophicalTradition	Classical Greek philosophy ⓘ Hellenistic philosophy ⓘ Pre-Socratic philosophy ⓘ
hasPoliticalForm	city-state ⓘ polis ⓘ
hasRegion	Aegean Sea ⓘ Asia Minor ⓘ Greek mainland ⓘ Mediterranean Basin ⓘ
hasReligion	Ancient Greek religion ⓘ
hasStartPeriod	Archaic Greece ⓘ
hasWritingSystem	Greek alphabet ⓘ
influenced	Renaissance humanism ⓘ Western art ⓘ Western civilization ⓘ Western literature ⓘ Western philosophy ⓘ Western political thought ⓘ
partOf	Greek Antiquity self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Ancient Greece