Civilization

Stories tagged Civilization:

• The Founding of Athens Aug 6, 2025

  

  In the ancient days when gods walked more freely among mortals and the boundaries between the divine and earthly realms were not as firmly drawn as they would later become, there arose on the coast of Attica a settlement that would one day become the greatest city in all of Greece. But at its founding, this community had no name and no patron deity to guide its destiny.

• The Myth of Centaurs and Lapiths Aug 2, 2025

  

  In the mountainous region of Thessaly, where the peaks touched the clouds and the valleys bloomed with wildflowers, there lived two very different peoples whose fates would become forever intertwined in one of the most famous battles of ancient legend.

  The Lapiths were a noble tribe of humans, known throughout Greece for their wisdom, their skill in warfare, and their devotion to the civilized arts. They built beautiful cities with marble columns and bronze gates, created works of art that rivaled those of the gods themselves, and governed themselves with laws based on justice and honor.