10 interesting things.

1. The trojan war is what the Iliad is about.
2. Sparta and athens were at war with each other for 27 years.
3. Athens was the birthplace of drama philosophy and democracy.
4. The 27 year war was called the Peloponnesian war.
5. Men served the military untill the were 60 years old.
6. At the age of 7 children were sent off to military school.
7. Aesop was thought to be a slave.
8. Alexander the great united Greece, Persia, Egypt and parts of India for 1 empire.
9. Early Greeks were called Mycenaens.
10. Greece had Hellenistic culture which combined Greece with Egypt, Persia and Indian influences.