greek history

Your challenge should you choose to accept, is to devise a scenario around the premise of the Phanariotes leading the Greek Independence Movements and the formation of an independent Greek state. How would a successful Phanariot Greece develop in terms of culture/politics/economics? Many...

When Greece regained independence in the 800' they trie to find a surviving descendant of the last byzantine emperor Costantine XI as Wikipedia also states: "Beyond Constantine's martyrdom, the Palaiologos dynasty had a lasting impact on the Greeks throughout the centuries of Ottoman rule...

I'm thinking about early Carthage-screw and stronger Greek presence in western part of Mediterranean Sea-what is needed to make Greeks more successful there? Perhaps Phocaean full victory over Carthage and Etruscans resulting in Sardinia and Corsica being colonized by Greeks. Is it possible? If...

I have been reading a bit on ancient Greece recently and I thought about what would happen if the Persians managed to conquer ancient Greece. I thought about how this would effect the expansion of the roman empire considering the attempt to conquer Greece occurred the same period as roman...

I'm currently reading a book titled "The Formation of Christendom" by Judith Herrin and in it she describes how in the 660s (East) Roman Emperor Constans II, father of Constantine IV, chose Syracuse as his imperial residence and even considered making it the formal capital of the Empire (pp...

Self-explanatory title. Either the Achaemenid Empire never forms or fails to reach the Aegean Sea. What happens? Was the disunity of the greek city-states inevitable, or was it a byproduct of persian puppeteering? What happens to the Lydian Empire? Could it end up becoming a substitute for the...