SAFAGEOHISTORIA

AGORA: large central square where most of the trading and political activities took place. The main political and commercial buildings where there.

 

PERICLES: (495-429 B.C.) the most important politician from the Classical Age. This governor strengthened the political and economic power of Athens, embellished the city by constructing monuments like the Parthenon at the top of the Acropolis and attracted numerous intellectuals and artists.

 

ALEXANDER THE GREAT: (356-323 BC), tutored by Aristotle until age 16, he succeeded his father Philip II to throne at the age of 20, when he was assassinated. Then he launched his father's pan-Hellenic project spreding the Greek culture in the east in a new Hellenistic civilisation and by the age of thirty, he had created one of the largest empires of the ancient world, stretching from Greece to northwestern India.

 

ALEXANDRIA: capital of the Ptolemaic dynasty founded by Alexander the Great in Egypt, whose library contained all the knowledge of the era attracting numerous scientists and thinkers, like Archimedes, Ptolemy, Euclides and Eratosthenes. A large lighthouse was built in the port over a 100 metres high, considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, but was destroyed by an earthquake in the 16th century.