any facts on ancient greece?
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The Olympic Games(Olympics) is an sport event taking place every four years. Held in ancient Greece, and only taken part by male contenders, they were revived by the French Pierre  de Coubertin in the late 19th century.\nThe Summer Olympics (Games of the Olympiad) have been held every fourth year (starting in 1896), with the exception of the years during the World Wars.\nThe Olympic Winter Games was first held in 1924. The first winter Olympics competitions were held as a sports festival, but were declared to be official Games by the International Olympic Committee in 1925. \nLearn more in the sites bellow\n\nPersian Wars\nThe Persian Wars were a series of conflicts between the Greek world and the Persian Empire that started about 500 BC and lasted until 448 BC. \nYou will find imfos in "Creco-persian wars" article in wikipedia \nSee also the article "Greece" and follow the links
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Here is a pretty web site for you to look into to get your answer: http://ancienthistory.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=ancienthistory&zu=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hoocher.com%2Fcatullus.htm
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This gets asked daily....\nThe 7 wonders of the ancient world:\n\n    * The Great Pyramid of Giza\n      It is the one and only Ancient Wonder which does not require a description by early historians and poets. It is the one and only Ancient Wonder that does not need speculations concerning its appearance, size, and shape. It is the oldest, yet it is the only surviving of the Seven Ancient Wonders. It is the Great Pyramid of Giza.\n\n    * The Hanging Gardens of Babylon\n      Some stories indicate the Hanging Gardens towered hundreds of feet into the air, but archaeological explorations indicate a more modest, but still impressive, height.\n\n    * The Statue of Zeus at Olympia\n      This is a statue of the God in whose honor the Ancient Olympic games were held. It was located on the land that gave its very name to the Olympics. At the time of the games, wars stopped, and athletes came from Asia Minor, Syria, Egypt, and Sicily to celebrate the Olympics and to worship their king of Gods: Zeus.\n\n    * The Colossus of Rhodes\n      The island of Rhodes was an important economic centre in the ancient world. It is located off the southwestern tip of Asia Minor where the Aegean Sea meets the Mediterranean. The capitol city, also named Rhodes, was built in 408 B.C\n\n\n\n    * The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus\n      Eight hundred years after its destruction, the magnificent Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, had been completely forgotten by the people of the town that had once held it in such pride…\n\n    * The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus\n      The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus is the burial place of an ancient king. Yet the Mausoleum is different - so different from the Pyramid that it earned its reputation - and a spot within the list - for other reasons. Geographically, it is closer to the Temple of Artemis... And it was the beauty of the tomb rather than its size that fascinated its visitors for years.\n\n    * The Pharos of Alexandria (The Lighthouse of Alexandria)\n      Of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, only one had a practical use in addition to its architectural elegance: The Lighthouse of Alexandria. For sailors, it ensured a safe return to the Great Harbor. For architects, it meant even more: it was the tallest building on Earth. And for scientists, it was the mysterious mirror that fascinated them most... The mirror which reflection could be seen more than 50 km (35 miles) off-shore.\n\nOf those, opnly the Pyramids remain today.\n\nThere are more modern wonders:\n\n\n\n* Great Pyramid of Giza\n* Great Wall of China\n* Taj Mahal\n* Serengeti Migration\n* Galapagos Islands\n* Grand Canyon\n* Machu Picchu\n\nModern world:\n* Channel Tunnel\n* CN Tower\n* Empire State Building\n* Golden Gate Bridge\n* Itaipu Dam\n* Netherlands' Tidal Defences\n* Panama Canal\n\nNatural wonders:\n* Grand Canyon\n* Great Barrier Reef\n* Harbor of Rio de Janeiro\n* Mount Everest\n* Northern Lights\n* Paricutín volcano\n* Victoria Falls\n\nUnderwater wonders:\nPalau\nBelize Barrier Reef\nGreat Barrier Reef\nDeep-Sea Vents\nGalapagos Islands\nLake Baikal\nNorthern Red Sea
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Oh! It's very very ancient.\nScientists said that Ancient period of Greece stared before 20,000 B.C. They found many "clews" in Franchthi Cave. It is unique in Greece in having an essentially unbroken series of deposits spanning the period from ca. 20,000 B.C. (and probably even earlier) down to ca. 3000 B.C. The site  is located  in the southeastern Argolid, across a small bay from the modern Greek village of Koilada.
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this site has some info  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_astronomy
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Macedonia - ancient, rather than modern.
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They invented condoms.\n\nIn all seriousness, they're most famous for the "Trojan Horse" story.  They bravely held off the Greeks for ten years, keeping them from overtaking the city.  Then the Greeks pretended to give up and go home, leaving behind a wooden horse...\n\nRead the rest at the link below:
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More in-depth:\n\n1) Great Pyramid of Khufu (Egypt) \nthe largest of the three at 450 feet high (originally 482 when built); contains 2.3 million blocks each weighing 2.5 tons; completed 2680BC; was the highest building in the world until the 19th century; \n\n2) Hanging Gardens of Babylon (Iraq) \nbuilt around 600BC by Nebuchadnezzar to appease Queen Amuhia; Amuhia was married to Neb to form an alliance between the Babylonians and the Medians; she was homesick because Babylon was flat and dry and she was from a green mountainous region, had dimensions of 100 by 150 feet and were terraces that rose from 75 to 300 feet; had a mechanism to raise water to each of the terraces \n\n3) Statue of Zeus (Jupiter) at Olympia (Greece) \nbuilt by Phidias in 5th century BC; was placed in a temple built to honor Zeus who was the reason for the ancient olympic games (Zeus was the king of the Gods); statue was 22-feet wide and 40-feet high statue and made of ivory and gold; moved to Olympia until the olympic games were abolished by Emperor Theodosius I of Rome since he was Christian and did not believe in pagan games (since the olympics honored Zeus, a pagan God); moved to Constantinople (Turkey) after 255AD and was destroyed by fire in 462AD \n\n4) Temple of Artemis (Diana) at Ephesus (Turkey) \nbegun in 350BC and took about 60 to 120 years to complete; the temple had 36 60-foot high Ionic columns and was completely made of marble; destroyed during a raid by the Goths in 262 A.D; was not rebuilt afterwards since Christianity took hold and pagan temples were not in favor \n\n5) Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (Turkey) \nbegun in 353BC; built by Queen Artemisia over grief of the death of her husband who was also her brother (common practice for royalty to wed within the family at the time)Mausolus; his name led to modern day term mausoleum for all stately tombs throughout the world; destroyed by series of earthquakes and only the foundation was left by 1404AD \n\n6) Colossus at Rhodes (Greece) \nbegun in 304BC and took 12 years to complete; bronze statue of the God Helios, who was patron God of Rhodes; built to celebrate their victory and freedom against an invasion force larger than the population of Rhodes itself; was 110 feet tall (as tall as the Statue of Liberty without the pedestal) on a 50 foot pedestal; destroyed by earthquake just 57 years after completion; peices of fallen statue laid there until 7th century AD when Arab conquerers took it apart for scrap metal; it is said it took 900 camels to take away the statue \n\n7) Pharos Lighthouse of Alexandria (Egypt) \nbuilt in 290BC since the city needed a signal for its busy port; completed 20 years later; 2nd tallest building in the world at 450 feet (see wonder 1); was built on the island of Pharos; Pharos is the root word for "lighthouse" in Spanish, French, Italian, and Romanian; it was three stages with the first stage being 200 feet high, and it was possibly a tourist destination since it was one of the highest views possible on a man-made building in the ancient world and food was served at this observation level, possibly for tourists; stood for over 1,500 years, but was damaged by earthquakes in 365 and 1303AD and finally fell in 1326AD \n\nAll of these were built by 270BC and where in the Mediterranean Sea... The reason was that this list was compiled by ancient Greek historians so they all included objects/structures around the Mediterrean Sea since that was the "known" world at the time... That is why Stonehenge, Great Wall of China, and other ancient objects/structures were left off the list...
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A & E special on Greek Mythology.\nhttp://www.royalty.nu/legends/Hercules.html
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WEB SITES ON GREEK AND ROMAN MYTHOLOGY\n\nhttp://www.cumbavac.org/Greek_and_Roman_Mythology.htm\n\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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The only written and known record of Atlantis was what Plato the Greek Philosopher wrote about it in his work Timeus. \n\nYou should check it out. You can find this short essay free on\nwww.gutenberg.org or put THE GUTENBERG PROJECT on your Internet browser.\n\nAtlantis Mythology does not exist, but many fictional stories had been made that includes Gods in the media (TV, movies, etc) recently, but thats it only good ole 20th century fiction.
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Sparta is part of modern day Greece.
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Very unlikely.  The Greeks were very advanced in mathematics, indeed, a lot of advanced mathematics date back to over 2000 years ago in Greece.  For example, the Elements, which is considered to be one of the most successful textbooks in the history of mathematics, and contains geometry and number theory, was written by Greek Mathematician Euclid around 300 BC.  There's also the Greek Pythagoreans, if you've heard of the pythagorean theorem in right triangles, that's where the name comes from.
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Pericles was a statesman of ancient Greece, who tried to unite the country under the leadership of his own city, Athens. Pericles also promoted democracy within Athens. His rule is sometimes known as the Golden Age of Greece. Many magnificent buildings, including the Parthenon, were built under his administration. He led the Athenians at the beginning of the Peloponnesian War but died soon afterward.
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Ancient Greece offers us a wealth in all the areas you listed. Their dramas are still pertinent to this day ie the conflict of divided loyalties as presented in Sophocles "Antigone". We can learn much about human nature by exploring the mythology created by the Greeks as they sought to explain humans and their existence. They produced beautiful as well as utilitarian structures that celebrated life. They became a spring board for the developing mythologies of the East as they endeavored to portray deities as more accessible and supportive.
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in ancient Greece\nAlexander was gay\nalso in Sodom
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ancientgreece/timeline/timeline2.shtml\n\nhope this helps