Harris dates studies of both to Classical Greece and Classical Rome, specifically, to Herodotus, often called the " father of history " and the Roman historian, Tacitus, who wrote many of our only surviving contemporary accounts of several ancient Celtic and Germanic peoples.

The normal method of calculation in ancient Rome, as in Greece, was by moving counters on a smooth table.

References to the concept of atoms date back to ancient Greece and India.

In ancient Greece sculptors and painters were held in low regard, somewhere between freemen and slaves, their work regarded as mere manual labour.

Ambracia, occasionally Ampracia (), was a city of ancient Greece on the site of modern Arta.

Amber and extracts were used from the time of Hippocrates in ancient Greece for a wide variety of treatments through the Middle Ages and up until the early twentieth century.

Margaret Fuller referred to Alcott as " a philosopher of the balmy times of ancient Greece — a man whom the worldlings of Boston hold in as much horror as the worldlings of Athens held Socrates.

Two well-known cases are found in the speeches of Demosthenes, a prominent statesman and orator in ancient Greece.

In ancient Greece, the amaranth ( also called chrysanthemum and helichrysum ) was sacred to Ephesian Artemis.

He was reckoned by some ancient authors as one of the Seven Sages of Greece, and it is said that he was initiated into the Eleusinian Mysteries of the Great Goddess, a privilege denied to those who did not speak fluent Greek.

Actium ( Greek: Ἄκτιον ) was the ancient name of a promontory of western Greece in northwestern Acarnania, at the mouth of the Sinus Ambracius ( Gulf of Arta ) opposite Nicopolis, built by Augustus on the north side of the strait.

An ancient Roman festival, Actia, was named after Actium, in Nicopolis, the new city ( today Preveza, Greece ).

* Arene, Elis, an ancient town in Elis, Greece, also known as Makistos, Samia or Samiko

Ancient art was largely, but not entirely, based on the nine great ancient civilizations: Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, Greece, China, Rome, India, the Celtic peoples, and Maya.

An example of ancient aesthetics in Greece through poetry is Plato's quote: " For the authors of those great poems which we admire, do not attain to excellence through the rules of any art ; but they utter their beautiful melodies of verse in a state of inspiration, and, as it were, possessed by a spirit not their own.

Abae (, Abai ) is an ancient town in the northeastern corner of Phocis, in Greece.

Artemis, the goddess of forests and hills, was worshipped throughout ancient Greece.

The ceremony is organized at the site of ancient Olympia in Greece.

Many city-states in ancient Greece limited debt slavery to a period of five years and debt slaves had protection of life and limb, which regular slaves did not enjoy.

When the idea of a modern Olympics became a reality at the end of the 19th century, the initiators and organizers were looking for a great popularizing event, recalling the ancient glory of Greece.

Although traditionally focused on ancient Greece and Rome, the study now encompasses the entire ancient Mediterranean world, thus expanding their studies to Northern Africa and parts of the Middle East.

Early in this period, which finally culminated in the creation of the Gupta Empire, relations with ancient Greece and Rome were not infrequent.

Later, the Antikythera mechanism, invented some time around 100 AD in ancient Greece, was the first mechanical calculator utilizing gears of various sizes and configuration to perform calculations, which tracked the metonic cycle still used in lunar-to-solar calendars, and which is consistent for calculating the dates of the Olympiads.

In ancient Greece, beginning in the early 1st millennium AD, there emerged independent city-states that evolved for the first time the notion of citizenship, becoming in the process the archetype of the free city, the polis.

The Acropolis of Athens ( Greek: Ακρόπολη Αθηνών ) is an ancient citadel located on a high rocky outcrop above the city of Athens and containing the remains of several ancient buildings of great architectural and historic significance, the most famous being the Parthenon.

All the valuable ancient artifacts are situated in the Acropolis Museum, which resides on the southern slope of the same rock, 280 metres from the Parthenon.

Kerameikos () is an area of Athens, Greece, located to the northwest of the Acropolis, which includes an extensive area both within and outside the ancient city walls, on both sides of the Dipylon ( Δίπυλον ) Gate and by the banks of the Eridanos River.

Pergamon's library on the Acropolis ( the ancient Library of Pergamum ) was the second best in the ancient Greek civilization.

The Parthenon, a temple dedicated to Athena, located on the Acropolis in Athens, is one of the most representative symbols of the culture and sophistication of the ancient Greeks.

In ancient Greek religion Artemis Caryatis was an epithet of Artemis that was derived from the small polis of Karyai in Laconia ; there an archaic open-air temenos was dedicated to Carya, the Lady of the Nut-Tree, whose priestesses were called the caryatidai, represented on the Athenian Acropolis as the marble caryatids supporting the porch of the Erechtheum.

* Acropolis (" high city "), Athens, Greece ( this is the most well-known example of acropolis ; in fact an acropolis area was part of almost every ancient Greek polis and it was more like a function-part of an ancient polis ( like e. g. agora, walls, etc.

* Heliodorus of Athens ancient author who wrote fifteen books on the Acropolis of Athens, possibly about 150 BC

The Erechtheion () is an ancient Greek temple on the north side of the Acropolis of Athens in Greece.

* remains of the ancient Acropolis, Agora, Amphitheater, Nymphaeum, Necropolis

One of the most important religious sites in ancient Athens was the Temple of Athena, known today as the Parthenon, which stood on top of the Acropolis, where its evocative ruins still stand.

Even since antiquity, Penteli has been famous for its marble, which was used for the construction of the Acropolis and other buildings of ancient Athens.

The ancient quarry is protected by law, and used exclusively to obtain material for the Acropolis Restoration Project.

The Ancient Agora of Athens ( aka Forum of Athens in older texts ) is the best-known example of an ancient Greek agora, located to the northwest of the Acropolis and is bounded on the south by the hill of the Areopagus and on the west by the hill known as the Colonus Agoraeus.

From 2004 an excavation started around the ancient Acropolis of Lissos and the Skanderbeg Memorial, which revealed Hellenistic, Roman and Early Byzantine buildings, tombs and other findings.

The Prytaneum, mentioned by Pausanias, and probably the original center of the ancient city, was situated somewhere east of the northern cliff of the Acropolis.

Although the pleated kilt has been linked to an ancient statue ( 3rd century BC ) located in the area around the Acropolis in Athens, there are no surviving ancient Greek clothings that can confirm this connection.

Such name never existed according to older and recent geographers, but the ancient greeks called Kechropian the Acropolis and a part liing between Eleusina and Aharnes.

The neighborhoods of Plaka ( Πλάκα ), Monastiraki ( Μοναστηράκι ), Psiri ( Ψυρρή ) and Kolonaki ( Κολωνάκι ) are all within walking distance, and most of the famous sites of ancient Athens are nearby, including the Acropolis ( Ακρόπολις ), the Theater of Dionysus, the Areopagus, the Ancient Agora of Athens ( Αρχαία Αγορά των Αθηνών ) with Hadrian's Library, the Tower of the Winds in the Roman Agora, the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates, the Arch of Hadrian ( Αψίς του Ανδριανού ), the Temple of Olympian Zeus ( Ναός του Ολυμπίου Διός ), the Pnyx ( Πνύκα ), the Philopappos Monument ( Μνημείο του Φιλοπάππου ) on the Hill of the Nymphs, the Kerameikos Cemetery ( Νεκροταφείο Κεραμικού ), the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier ( Μνημείο του Αγνώστου Στρατιώτη ) and Lycabettus Hill.

The site of the Acropolis of ancient Elea, once a promontory ( castello a mare, meaning " castle on the sea ") and now inland, was renamed in the Middle Ages Castellammare della Bruca.