An astrolabe is an elaborate inclinometer, historically used by astronomers and navigators to measure the inclined position in the sky of a celestial body, day or night.
The astrolabe is invented, perhaps by the Appolonius of Perga in Greece Read more
Aristotle speculated, “Now since there must be a region bearing the same relation to the southern pole as the place we live in bears to our pole…”.
Sophocles (c. 496 – c. 406 B.C.E.) was one of the most famous and celebrated writers of tragedy plays in ancient Greece and his surviving works, written throughout the 5th century B.C.E., include such classics as Oedipus the King, Antigone, and Women of Trachis.
Sophocles completes the Oedipus trilogy of tragic plays Read more
The Hippocratic Oath is one of the oldest and most widely known codes of ethics.
The Hippocratic Oath is used for the first time Read more
In the year 507 B.C.E., the Athenian leader Cleisthenes introduced a system of political reforms that he called demokratia, or “rule by the people.”
Humanity creates democracy in Ancient Greece Read more
The archaeological record shows that no later than c. 515 B.C.E. distinctive cuttings for both lifting tongs and lewis irons begin to appear on stone blocks of Greek temples.
Humans of ancient Greece invent the crane Read more
The tunnel is the second known tunnel in history which was excavated from both ends and the first with a geometry-based approach in doing so.
If the account is true, it has been suggested that Thales would have had to calculate the timing of any eclipse by recognizing patterns in the periodicities of eclipses. It has been postulated that Thales may have used the Saros cycle in his determination
Thales of Miletus becomes first human to predict a solar eclipse Read more
From the 6th and until the 1st century B.C.E. the Agora as the heart of the government and the judiciary, as a public place of debate, as a place of worship, and as marketplace.
The Agora thrives as public commons space in ancient Athens Read more
They continued for nearly 12 centuries, until Emperor Theodosius decreed in 393 C.E. that all such “pagan cults” be banned.
The first Olympic games begin in Greece Read more
