Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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The plot twist of the Archaic era is that Ionia was hiding all the cool stuff.

SOURCES & Further Reading:
“The Greeks” by Roderick Beaton
Great Courses Lectures “Challenges in the West: 513 – 493” from “The Persian Empire” by John W. I. Lee,
“Emergence of the Polis”, “Ionia and Early Greek Civilization”, “The Persian Conquest”, “Athenian Empire and Spartan Hegemony”, “Alexander the Great and the Diadochi”, and “The Hellenization of Asia Minor” from “The Great Civilizations of Asia Minor” by Kenneth W. Harl
“The Hellenistic Concert of Powers” from “Alexander the Great and the Macedonian Empire” by Kenneth W. Harl

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"Sneaky Snitch" by Kevin MacLeod
"The Sacred Land of Artemis" from Assassin's Creed Odyssey OST

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