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[Pouakai]

So the City-States pedias have to be 3-4 paragraphs!?

I started working on them, and made them only one paragraph..

Here they are:

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Miletus
Miletus was a city located in southwestern Anatolia (present-day Turkey). The site of the city was originally inhabited by a Neolithic population in the period 3500-3000 BC. Miletus was first mentioned in the records of the Hittite Empire and the Mycenaean records of Pylos and Knossos, during the Late Bronze Age. Starting around 1900 BC, Minoan trade goods arrived at Miletus. There was legend claiming the city’s foundation by the Cretans, as recounted by Strabo. Miletus was a Mycenaean stronghold from ca. 1450 to 1100 BC. In c. 1320 BC, the city supported an anti-Hittite rebellion in nearby Arzawa. Hittite king Mursili ordered his generals to raid Millawanda (as Miletus was called at the time), and they proceeded to burn parts of it. During the collapse of Bronze Age civilization, Miletus was burnt again. Myths tell of Ionians killing the men of Miletus and marrying their widows, beginning an enduring alliance between Athens and Miletus. It ended up as one of the twelve Ionian cities of Asia Minor. Miletus is also known to have ties with Megara. In the late 7th century BC, the tyrant Thrasybulus preserved the independence of Miletus during a 12-year war fought against Lydia. The city was an important center of philosophy and science, producing men like Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes. By the 6th century BC, Miletus had a maritime empire with colonies. It fell under Persian rule after Cyrus defeated Croesus of Lydia in the middle of the 6th century BC. In 499 BC, Milesian tyrant Aristagoras led the Ionian revolt against the Persians. It was quashed and Miletus was punished by Persia. The women and children were sold into slavery, and the men were either killed or turned into eunuchs. The intent was to make sure no Milesians were ever born again. In 334 BC, the city was liberated from Persian rule by Alexander the Great. During the Hellenistic period, Miletus reached its greatest extent. The city was mentioned in the New Testament as the site where the Apostle Paul met with the elders of the church of Ephesus, near the end of his third missionary journey in 57 AD. It seems like Paul made another visit to Miletus, perhaps as late as 65 or 66 AD. During the Byzantine period, the see of Miletus was raised to an archbishopric and later a metropolitan bishopric. A small castle was built on the hill next to the city. Seljuk Turks conquered the city during the 14th century, using it as a port for trade with Venice. As the harbor became silted up, Miletus was abandoned. The ruins of the city now lie some 10 km (6.2mi) from the sea. The first archaeological excavations at the site were conducted in 1873, and still continue today. The Market Gate of Miletus was transported piece by piece to Germany, currently residing at the Pergamon museum in Berlin. The main collection of artifacts from the site are in the Miletus Museum in Didim, Turkey.

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Delphi
Delphi was a city in central Greece, known for its oracle. It started to have a pan-Hellenic relevance as both a shrine and an oracle in the 7th century BC. The Delphic Oracle was consulted before major undertakings, such as wars, and the founding of colonies. Delphi was reclaimed by the Athenians during the First Sacred War (597-585 BC). This conflict resulted in the consolidated of the Amphictyonic League, which had both a military and a religious function centered around the protection of the Temple of Apollo. The shrine was destroyed by fire in 548 BC. The Second Sacred War (449-448 BC) resulted in the Phocians gaining control of Delphi and the management of the Pythian Games. In 356 BC, the Phocians, led by Philomelos, captured and sacked Delphi, leading to the Third Sacred War (356-346 BC). This conflict ended with the defeat of the Phocians, and the rise of Macedon under the reign of Philip II. In Delphi, Macedonian ruled was superseded by the Aetolians in 279 BC, and by the Romans in 191 BC. The site was sacked by Lucius Cornelius Sulla in 86 BC, during the Mithridatic Wars, and by the Emperor Nero in 66 AD. A Thracian tribe also raided the sanctuary in 83 BC, stealing the “unquenchable fire” from the altar. The Oracle fell into decay and the surrounding area became impoverished. Roman Emperor Hadrian is believed to have visited Delphi twice, offering complete autonomy to the city. Constantine the Great looted several of the monuments to decorate his new capital, Constantinople. Despite the rise of Christianity across the Roman Empire, the oracle remained a religious center throughout the 4th century, and the Pythian Games continued to be held at least until 424 AD. A large three-aisled basilica was built in the city, in addition to a church building in the sanctuary’s former gymnasium. Delphi was abandoned in the 6th or 7th centuries, but a single bishop of Delphi is attested in an episcopal list of the late 8th/early 9th centuries. During the Ottoman period, the village of Kastri was founded on the site. Before a systematic excavation of the archeological site could be undertaken, the village had to be relocated. However, the residents resisted. An earthquake damaged the village, and the villagers were offered a completely new village in exchange for the old one. In 1893, the French Archaeological School removed substantial quantities of soil from numerous landslides to uncover the major buildings and structures of the sanctuary of Apollo and of Athena Pronoia, as well as numerous artifacts. Now a UNESCO world heritage site, Delphi is popular with tourists.

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Ephesus
Ephesus was a city located in Western Anatolia (modern day Turkey). The area surrounding it was already inhabited during the Neolithic Age (circa 6000 BC). During the Bronze Age, it may have been called Apasa, the capital of the Kingdom of Arzawa mentioned in Hittite sources. In 1954, a burial ground dating from the Mycenaean era (1500-1400 BC) was discovered close to the ruins of the basilica of St. John. Ephesus was founded as an Attic-Ionian colony in the 10th century BC on the Ayasuluk Hill. The mythical founder of the city was a prince of Athens, Androklos, who had to leave his home city after the death of his father. According to legend, he founded Ephesus on the spot where the Delphian oracle’s pronouncement became reality. The Artemis worshipped at Ephesus was a fusion of the Greek goddess Artemis and the Anatolian goddess Kybele. Her statue was many-breasted and venerated in the Temple of Artemis, one of the ancient Seven Wonders of the World. Circa 650 BC, Ephesus was attacked by the Cimmerians. After they were driven away, the city was ruled by a series of tyrants. A council ruled it after a revolt. Notable figures who came from the city included the elegiac poet Callinus, the iambic poet Hipponax, the philosopher Heraclitus, the great painter Parrhasius, the grammarian Zenodotos, and the physicians Soranus and Rufus. Around 560 BC, Ephesus was conquered by the Lydians led by King Croesus, who treated the people with respect and became a main contributor to the reconstruction of the temple of Artemis. After the defeat of Lydia by the Persians, the Ionians offered to make peace. Cyrus insisted they surrender and become part of the empire. They were defeated by the Persian general Harpagos in 547 BC, with the Greek cities of Asia Minor incorporated into the Achaemenid Empire. When taxes were raised under Cambyses II and Darius, the Ephesians participated in the Ionian Revolt against Persian rule in the Battle of Ephesus (498 BC). In 479 BC, the Ionians, together with Athens, were able to oust the Persians from the shores of Asia Minor. The next year, the Ionian cities formed the Delian League with Athens against the Persians. During the Peloponnesian War, Ephesus was first allied to Athens, but later sided with Sparta (which had received the support of the Persians). The cities of Ionia were ceded to Persia. In 356 BC, the temple of Artemis was burnt down, by an arsonist named Herostratus according to legend. An even larger and grander one was built in its place. After Alexander the Great defeated the Persians at the Battle of Granicus in 334 BC, the Greek cities in Asia Minor were liberated. Seeing that the temple of Artemis was not yet completed, he proposed to finance it and have his name inscribed on the front. The Ephesians did not accept his proposal, claiming that it was not fitting for one god to build a temple to another. After Alexander’s death in 323 BC, Ephesus came under the rule of one of his generals, Lysimachus in 290 BC. The river Cayster silted the harbor and the resulting marshes caused malaria among the people. They were forced to move to a new settlement two kilometres (1.2miles) away, officially named Arsinoea after Lysimachus’ second wife. Lysimachus was defeated and killed at the Battle of Corupedium in 281 BC. The town was again named Ephesus and it became part of the Seleucid Empire. Ptolemy III invaded and Ephesus fell under Egyptian rule between 263 and 197 BC. When Seleucid King Antiochus III the Great tried to regain the Greek cities in Asia Minor, he came into conflict with Rome. He was eventually defeated by Scipio Asiaticus at the Battle of Magnesia in 190 BC. Ephesus came under the rule of the Attalid King of Pergamon, Eumenes II. When his grandson Attalus III died without a male heir, he left his kingdom to the Roman Empire. Taxes rose considerably and the treasures of the city were plundered. In 88 BC, Ephesus welcomed Archelaus, a general of Mithridates the Great, king of Pontus, when he conquered Roman Asia. Around 80,000 Roman citizens were slaughtered. When the Ephesians saw how badly the people of Chios were treated by another of Mithridates’ general Zenobius, they refused entry to their city to his army. Ephesus became for a time, self-governing. After the defeat of Mithridates by Roman consul Lucius Cornelius Sulla, Ephesus went back to Roman rule in 86 BC. Sulla imposed a huge indemnity, along with five years of back taxes. When Augustus became emperor in 27 BC, he made Ephesus the capital of proconsular Asia. The city entered an era of prosperity, becoming the seat of the governor and a major center of commerce. Strabo claimed it was second in importance and size only to Rome. The population of Ephesus at this time is calculated to be between 138,000 and 172,500, with an alternate estimate giving the city a range of 33,600 to 56,000 inhabitants. The city was known for its Temple of Artemis, the Library of Celsus, and a theater capable of holding 25,000 spectators (later used for gladiatorial combat). Ephesus was sacked by the Goths in 263 AD, marking the decline of the city’s splendor. The Emperor Constantine I rebuilt much of the city and erected a new public bath. The Basilica of St. John was built during the reign of Emperor Justinian I in the 6th century. The importance of the city as a commercial center declined as the harbor was slowly silted up by the river. The ruins of the temples were used as building blocks for new homes. Sacks by the Arabs in the years 654-655 and in 700 and 716 hastened the city’s decline further. When the Seljuk Turks conquered Ephesus in 1090, it was but a small village. The Byzantines resumed control in 1097 and kept it until 1304. The town surrendered to a Turkish warlord, Sasa Bey. Contrary to the terms of the surrender, the Turks pillaged the church of St. John and deported most of the local population to Thyrea, Greece. The town experienced a short period of prosperity during the 14th century under the Seljuks. Ephesus was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire for the first time in 1390. After the defeat of the Ottomans by Tamerlane in 1402, the region reverted back to the Anatolian beyliks. It was once more incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1425. By the 15th century, Ephesus was completely abandoned. In 1863, the British architect John Turtle Wood, with the sponsorship of the British Museum, began to search for the Temple of Artemis. The pavement was discovered in 1869, but excavations stopped in 1874. In 1895, German archaeologist Otto Benndorf resumed excavations at Ephesus. In 1898, he founded the Austrian Archaeological Institute, which plays a leading role in Ephesus today. Finds from the site are exhibited in the Ephesos Museum in Vienna, the Ephesus Archaeological Museum in nearby Selçuk, and the British Museum. In 2015, Ephesus was declared a World Heritage Site. It is a popular tourist attraction in the area.

Those are perfect, thank you so much! Here's the new list of stuff still to be done (if you've done something on the list I've probably lost it somewhere, let me know and I'll add it again)

Pergamon

• DoM
• Civ pedia
• Leader pedia
• Rhodian Slinger pedia

Macedon

• Updated DoM
• Civ pedia
• Phalangitai pedia

Sparta

• Civ Pedia
• Leader Pedia
• Syssita Hall Pedia

Athens

• DoM
• Civ pedia
• Leader pedia
• Academy pedia
• Assault Trieres Pedia

City States

• Corinth pedia
• Thebai pedia
• Olympia pedia
• Epidauros pedia

 

[TranquilSilence]

Didn't Senshi post the Rhodian Slinger's pedia in this thread back when the list of pedias was first discussed?

 

[Pouakai]

I remember he posted a peltast one, but I couldn't remember whether he updated it to the new one once he learnt what the UU actually was

 

[Guandao]

Those are perfect, thank you so much! Here's the new list of stuff still to be done (if you've done something on the list I've probably lost it somewhere, let me know and I'll add it again)

Pergamon

• DoM
• Civ pedia
• Leader pedia
• Rhodian Slinger pedia

Macedon

• Updated DoM
• Civ pedia
• Phalangitai pedia

Sparta

• Civ Pedia
• Leader Pedia
• Syssita Hall Pedia

Athens

• DoM
• Civ pedia
• Leader pedia
• Academy pedia
• Assault Trieres Pedia

City States

• Corinth pedia
• Thebai pedia
• Olympia pedia
• Epidauros pedia

Is the pedia for the Odeon (Pergamon's UB) completed already?

 

[Pouakai]

Yeah, I think TranquilSilence did it

 

[TranquilSilence]

Aye, that I did - I've also just finished and sent off the Phalangitai pedia - so that can be crossed off the list as well.

 

[senshidenshi]

I did a pedia for the Slinger a few pages back. It was pretty bad, though.

EDIT: And apparently I can't read directly above me. Today is not a good day for fact-checking.

 

[Guandao]

Here are the rest of the city-states pedias

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Corinth
Corinth was an ancient Greek city-state in the northeastern part of the Peloponnesus peninsula in present day Greece. Neolithic pottery suggests that the site of Corinth was occupied from at least as early as 6500 BC. The site of Corinth was likely not heavily occupied until around 900 BC, when it is believed the Dorians settled there. The ancient myths portrayed Corinth as the site where Jason abandoned his wife Medea. Corinth had been a backwater in 8th-century Greece. The Bacchiadae, a tightly-knit Doric clan, were the ruling kinship group of archaic Corinth in the 8th and 7th centuries BC, a period of expanding Corinthian cultural power. In 747 BC, an aristocratic revolution ousted the Bacchiad kings. The royal clan of Bacchiadae dispensed with the kingship and ruled as a group, governing the city by electing annually a prytanis, who held the kingly position for his brief term. During Bacchiad rule, from 747 to 650 BC, Corinth became a unified state. In 733 BC, the city established colonies at Corcyra and Syracuse. In 657 BC, the polemarch Cypselus became the first tyrant of Corinth after seizing power and exiling the Bacchiadae. In the 7th century BC, under the rule of Cypselus (r 657-627 BC), and his son Periander (r. 627-585 BC), the city sent forth colonists to found new settlements, including Epidamnus (modern day Durrës, Albania), and Apollonia in Illyria. Corinth was one of the nine Greek sponsor-cities to found the colony of Naucratis in ancient Egypt. Periander was considered one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece. He was the first to attempt to cut across the Isthmus to create a seaway between the Corinthian and the Saronic Gulfs. This venture was abandoned due to extreme technical difficulties, but Periander had the Diolkos (a stone-built overland ramp) built instead. In 581 BC, Periander’s nephew and successor was assassinated.
In Classical times, Corinth rivaled Athens and Thebai in wealth. Until the mid-6th century, Corinth was a major exporter of black-figure pottery to city-states around the Greek world. There was a temple of Aphrodite, employing some thousand hetairas (temple prostitutes). The city was also the host of the Isthmian Games. The third main style of classical architecture after the Doric and the Ionic, the Corinthian order was developed. The city had two main ports, Lechaion to the west, and Kenchreai to the east on the Saronic Gulf. During the years 481-480 BC, the Conference at the Isthmus of Corinth established the Hellenic League to fight the war against Persia. In 435 BC, Corinth and its colony Corcyra went to war over Epidamnus. In 433 BC, Athens allied with Corcyra against Corinth. In 395 BC after the end of the Peloponnesian War, Corinth and Thebai moved to support Athens against Sparta in the Corinthian War. The conflicts weakened the city-states in the Peloponnese, setting the stage for the conquests of Philip II of Macedon. Corinth eventually fell under the control of Alexander the Great. In 308 BC, the city was captured from the Antigonids by Ptolemy I. It was recaptured by Demetrius in 204 BC, remaining in Antigonid control for half a century. After Roman intervention in 197 BC, the city was permanently brought into the Achaean League. The Achaeans went on to take control of the entire Peloponnesus and made Corinth the capital of their confederation.
In 146 BC, Rome declared war on the Achaean League. The Romans led by Lucius Mummius besieged and captured Corinth. All the men were put to the sword and the women and children sold into slavery. The site remained largely deserted until Julius Caesar refounded the city as Colonia Laus Iulia Corinthiensis in 44 BC, shortly before his assassination. Corinth once again became a major city in Southern Greece or Achaea. Corinth was mentioned many times in the New Testament, largely in connection with Paul the Apostle’s mission there. Paul wrote at least two epistles to the Christian community. The city was largely destroyed in the earthquakes of 365 AD and 375 AD, followed by Alaric’s invasion in 396. The city was rebuilt, but covered a much smaller area than previously. Four churches were located in the city proper, another on the citadel of the Acrocorinth, and a monumental basilica at the port of Lechaion. During the reign of Justinian I, a large stone wall was erected from the Saronic to the Corinthian gulfs, named Hexamilion. Corinth declined from the 6th century on. It became the capital of the theme of Hellas and later the Peloponnese. In the 9th century, the city began to recover and reached its apogee in the 11th and 12th centuries, when it was the site of a flourishing silk industry. An earthquake struck the city in November 856. The Sicilian Normans plundered Corinth in 1147 and it never fully recovered. In 1210, the Acrocorinth fell to the Crusaders, becoming a part of the Principality of Achaea, governed by the Villehardouins from their capital in Andravida in Elis. It was captured by the Ottomans in 1395 and by the Byzantines of the Despotate of the Morea in 1403. In 1458, Corinth was conquered by the Ottoman Turks, who renamed it Gördes. The Venetians captured it in 1687 and it remained under their control until 1715. The city was officially liberated from the Ottomans in 1832. It was one of the candidates for the new capital city of the recently founded Kingdom of Greece. The ruins remain a tourist attraction today.

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Thebai
Thebai was an ancient Greek city-state located in Boeotia, now central Greece. Many legends about the early days of Thebai were told among the Greeks. The foundation of the citadel Cadmeia was attributed to Cadmus, a Phoenician king from Tyre and the brother of Europa. Another famous mythical figure associated with Thebai is Oedipus, who murdered his father Laius and married his mother Jocasta. Excavations in Thebai have revealed graves dating to Mycenaean times containing weapons, ivory, and tablets written in Linear B. From the early days of its existence, the Thebans endeavored to establish a complete supremacy over their kinsmen in the outlying towns. In the late 6th century BC, the Thebans were brought for the first time into hostile contact with the Athenians, who helped the small village of Plataea to maintain its independence against them, and in 506 BC repelled an inroad into Attica. This enmity with Athens explains the unpatriotic attitude of Thebai during the Persian invasion of Greece (480-479 BC). Although a contingent of 400 was sent to Thermopylae and remained there with Leonidas before being defeated alongside the Spartans, the governing aristocracy soon after joined King Xerxes I of Persia and fought zealously on his behalf at the Battle of Plataea in 479 BC. The victorious Greeks subsequently punished Thebai by depriving it of the presidency of the Boeotian league. An attempt by the Spartans to expel the city-state from the Delphic amphictyony was only frustrated by the intercession of Athens. In 457 BC, Sparta, needing a counterpoise against Athens in central Greece, reversed its policy and reinstated Thebai as the dominant power in Boeotia. In the Peloponnesian War, the Thebans, embittered by the support that Athens gave to the smaller Boeotian towns (especially Plataea), were firm allies of Sparta. They destroyed Plataea in 427 BC. In 424 BC, the Thebans inflicted a severe defeat on an invading force of Athenians at the Battle of Delium.
After the downfall of Athens, the Thebans, having learned that Sparta intended to protect the states that Thebes desired to annex, broke off the alliance. In 403 BC, Thebai secretly supported the restoration of Athens’s democracy in order to find in it a counterpoise against Sparta. A few years later, they formed the nucleus of the league against Sparta. At the Battle of Haliartus (395 BC) and the Battle of Coronea (394BC), the Thebans proved their rising military capacity by standing their ground against the Spartans. The result of the war was disastrous to Thebai, as the general settlement of 387 BC stipulated the complete autonomy of all Greek towns and so withdrew the other Boeotians from its political control. In 382 BC, a Spartan force occupied the citadel. It was expelled three years later, and a democratic constitution was set up in place of the traditional oligarchy. In the consequent wars with Sparta, the Theban army, trained and led by Epaminondas and Pelopidas, proved itself formidable. In 371 BC, the Thebans won a victory over the Spartans at Leuctra. They marched into the Peloponnesus and at the head of a large coalition, permanently crippled the power of Sparta. With the death of Epaminondas at the Battle of Mantinea (362 BC), the city sank again to the position of a secondary power. It invited Philip II of Macedon to crush the Phocians. In 338 BC, the orator Demosthenes persuaded Thebai to join Athens in a final attempt to bar Philip’s advance on Attica. They lost at the battle of Chaeronea. An unsuccessful revolt in 335 BC against his son Alexander the Great was punished with the destruction of the city, except, according to tradition, the house of the poet Pindar and the temples. The Thebans were mainly sold into slavery, with only the priests, leaders of the pro-Macedonian party and descendants of Pindar spared.
Thebes was re-established in 315 or 316 BC by Cassander. However, it never returned to its former prominence or power. It was besieged and taken by Demetrius Poliorcetes in 293 BC and again after a revolt in 292 BC. The city recovered its autonomy from Demetrios in 287 BC, and became allied with Lysimachus and the Aetolian League. During the early Byzantine period, it served as a place of refuge against foreign invaders. From the 10th century, Thebai became a center of the new silk trade. By the middle of the 12th century, the city had become the biggest producer of silks in the entire Byzantine empire. Though severely plundered by the Normans in 1146, Thebai quickly recovered its prosperity until its conquest by the Latins of the Fourth Crusade in 1204. After 1240, the Saint Omer family controlled the city jointly with the de la Roche dukes. Latin hegemony in Thebai lasted to 1458, when the Ottomans captured it. It was under Ottoman control until the War of Independence, except for a brief Venetian occupation between 1687 and 1699. The present day Thebai is a bustling market town. Its proximity to other, more famous travel destinations and the undeveloped archaeological sites have kept the tourist numbers low.

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Olympia
Olympia was a city located in the Northwestern Peloponnese peninsula of present-day Greece. Remains of food and burnt offerings dating back to the 10th century BC give evidence of a long history of religious activity at the site. No buildings survived from this early period. The first Olympic festival was organized on the site by the authorities of Elis in the 8th century BC, with tradition dating the first games at 776 BC. Major changes were made to the site around 700 BC, including the levelling of land and the digging of new wells. Elis’ power diminished and at the beginning of the 7th century BC, the sanctuary went into the hands of the Pisatans in 676 BC. They organized the games until the late 7th century BC. The earliest evidence of building activity on the site dates from around 600 BC. The Skiloudians, allies of the Pisatans, built the Temple of Hera. The Treasuries and the Pelopion were built during the course of the 6th century BC. Secular structures and athletic arenas were also under construction during this period, including the Bouleuterion. The first stadium was constructed around 560 BC, consisting of just a simple track. It was remodeled around 500 BC with sloping sides for spectators and shifted slightly to the east. Over the course of the 6th century BC, a range of sporting events were added to the Olympic festival. In 580 BC, Elis, in an alliance with Sparta, occupied Pisa and regained control over the sanctuary.
The Classical period, between the 5th and 4th centuries BC, was the golden age of Olympia. A wide range of new religious and secular buildings and structures were constructed. The Temple of Zeus was built in the middle of the 5th century BC. Its size, scale and ornamentation was beyond anything previously constructed on the site. Its golden statue of Zeus was considered one of the seven wonders of the world by ancient writers. Sporting facilities, like the final iteration of the stadium, and the hippodrome were constructed. The Prytaneion was built at the northwest side of the site in 470 BC. In the late classical period, more structures were added to the site. The Metroon was built near the Treasuries circa 400 BC. The erection of the Echo Stoa, around 350 BC, separated off the sanctuary from the area of the games and stadium. The South Stoa was built at the southern edge of the sanctuary at approximately the same time. The late 4th century BC witnessed the erection of the Philippeion. Around 300 BC, the largest building on the site, the Leonidaion, was constructed to house important visitors. With the increasing importance of the games, further athletic buildings were constructed, including the Palaestra (3rd century BC), Gymnasion (2nd century BC), and bath houses (c.300 BC).
During the Roman period, the Olympic games were opened up to all citizens of the Roman Empire. A program of new buildings and extensive repairs, especially for the Temple of Zeus, took place. In 150 AD, the Nympheum was built. New baths replaced the older Greek ones in 100 AD, and an aqueduct were erected in 160 AD. The 3rd century saw the site suffer heavy damage from a series of earthquakes. Invading tribes in 267 AD led to the center of the site being fortified with robbed material from its monuments. The Olympic festival continued to be held at the site until the last Olympiad in 393 AD, after which the Christian emperor Theodosius I implemented a ban. The Temple of Zeus was apparently destroyed around 426 AD following an edict by Theodosius II enforcing the ban on pagan festivals. The workshop of Pheidias was turned into a basilica and the site was inhabited by a Christian community. Archaeological evidence suggests that small scale Olympic events (possibly in Christian guise) were still being held secretly until Justinian’s plague and two earthquakes devastated it by the mid-6th century. Repeated floods ensured that the settlement was finally abandoned in the early 7th century. The site was buried by ocean waters resulting from repeated tsunamis. Researchers figured this out due to the presence of mollusk, gastropod shells, and foraminifera at the site. The exact site was re-discovered in 1766 by the English antiquarian Richard Chandler. The first excavation of the sanctuary at Olympia was not carried out until 1829, by a French expedition. Since the 1870s, the excavation and preservation of Ancient Olympia has been the responsibility of the German Archaeological Institute at Athens. The site was inscribed on the World Heritage list in 1989. The legacy of the Olympic games lives on today.

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Epidauros
Epidauros was a city in what is now modern day Greece. It formed a small territory called Epidauria. It was reputed to be the birthplace of Apollo’s son, Asclepius the healer. The sanctuary was situated about five miles (8 km) from the town. Also present was a theatre. The cult of Asclepius at Epidaurus is attested in the 6th century BC. The asclepeion at Epidauros was the most celebrated healing center of the Classical world, a place where the sick went in the hopes of being cured. To find out the right cure for their ailments, they spent a night in the enkoimeteria, a big sleeping hall. In their dreams, the god himself would advise them what they had to do to regain their health. The fame and prosperity of Epidauros continued throughout the Hellenistic period. In 87 BC, the sanctuary was looted by the Roman general Sulla, and in 67 BC, it was plundered by pirates. In the 2nd century AD, the sanctuary enjoyed a new upsurge under the Romans, but the Goths raided it in 395 AD. Even after the introduction of Christianity and the silencing of the oracles, the sanctuary at Epidauros was still known as late as the mid-5th century, but as a Christian healing center. Now in ruins, Epidauros became a World Heritage site in 1988. Tourists still visit the site, especially its well preserved theatre.

 

[einayim]

How long should building/unit pedias be? I can pick a few up.

 

[Pouakai]

Legend, thanks for doing all those!

Pedias for the uniques aren't really that long, just a paragraph or two.

If anyone else wants to help out but writing isn't their strong suit, we still need TSL values for all the civs and the city states, though the Giant earth map might get a bit interesting

 

[einayim]

Syssitia Hall:

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The syssitia was a common meal found in many greek city-states of the classical period, though the ritual surrounding it was most developed in Sparta. More than a mere meal, the Syssitia was a focal point of the military lifestyle in Sparta— it was an inherently public, communal occasion, wherein all the men assigned to a given syssitia (size estimates vary from 15 to 200) were obligated to attend. Even a king could not shirk his duty of attendance without a strong extenuating circumstance, with those absent for inadequate reasons providing gifts to the table instead.

The Syssitia was typically held in a large hall in a banquet style, a precursor to the modern mess hall. In Spartan culture, where the feast was also called the Pheiditia, membership in a hall was vital to one’s membership in Spartan society, with Spartan men from the ages of 20 to 30 having to be voted into a given Syssitia hall.

Phalangitai:

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While classical Greek warfare was characterized by the use of hoplite phalanxes, military technology and strategy had developed enough by the Hellenistic period to shift the focus to pike phalanxes, or Phalangitai. While the formation was developed by Phillip II of Macedon, who used it in his wars of hegemony over Greek city-states, its most prominent use came under his son Alexander, who conquered the vast Achaemenid empire using principally pike phalanxes and heavy cavalry.

Each Phalangitai of a phalanx carried a long pike, known as a Sarissa. Sarissas were 4-6 meters long, reaching around twice the length of the dory carried by hoplites, giving the Phalangitai an enormous reach advantage on the battlefield. The increased bulk of the Sarissa did create some issues— the pikes had to be assembled from two pieces on the battlefield, and since they had to be wielded with two hands the only shield a Phalangitai could bear was the pelta worn around the neck. Nevertheless, the pike phalanx was an unmatched military tactic for centuries after its creation, nearly invulnerable to even Roman Legions when attacked from the front.

Rhodian Slinger:

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Slings were used as projectile weapons throughout the ancient and classical world, ranging back even to the neolithic period. In the Ancient Greek world, the slingers held in the highest esteem were the slingers of Rhodes, known for their use of leaden bullets and the longer range afforded by them.

The main source we have documenting the Rhodian slingers is Xenophon’s Anabasis, a record of the author’s role in the March of the Ten Thousand. In it, the slingers of Rhodes are praised for their ability over those of Persia— while Persian slingers used bulky stones as their projectiles, the Rhodians used leaden bullets, which not only allowed the slingers to hit targets even further than many contemporary archers, but also to deal percussive damage to the armor of their foes. Rhodian slingers also were less expensive than archers due to the lower cost of their bullets compared to arrows, leading to their common use as mercenaries throughout the period, even finding their way into the army of Alexander the Great.

Assault Trieres

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Though the exact provenance of the trireme is ambiguous, with many sources attributing it to the Phoenicians of Sidon, it was the Greek City-States, and more specifically the Athenians, who made the three-banked ships into weapons of war used to dominate the Mediterranean. It was under the statesman Themistocles during the Persian wars that Athens first built a great trireme navy, and the 200 ships approved by the Athenian assembly were decisive agents in the rebuking of the Persian navy at Artemisium and Salamis.

The Assault Trieres used by Athens to control the Greek world starting in the Fifth Century were fearsome ships not only due to their ramming capabilities, driven by three banks of oarsmen who could reach speeds of up to 8 knots, but due to the marines stationed on board, who served not only as guardsmen for the rowers but as an assault force in their own right. So powerful were the trieres that the defeat of Athens in the Peloponnesian Wars was only sealed upon the Peloponnesian League’s destruction of 170 Athenian Trieres in the decisive Battle of Aegospotami.

Academy

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The Academy, or Platonic Academy, was a school founded by Plato in the early 3rd Century BCE. Founded on the location of an olive grove sacred to Athena, the Goddess of Wisdom, and named after the hero Akademos, the Academy quickly became a hub of philosophical and intellectual discussion in Athenian society. A free society with exclusive membership, the Academy was not particularly similar to a modern school or university with a rigid curriculum and divide between pupils and instructors. Instead, the Academy was a place where Philosophical and Mathematical concepts and theories could be freely discussed, with the preeminent minds of Athens teaching. The Academy lasted long beyond Plato, and its development is typically divided into three phases. The Old Academy consisted of Plato, his contemporaries, and those who taught his teachings faithfully, the Middle consisted of those who made innovations and new discoveries generally associated with Skepticism, and the New with those who married old Platonism with Skepticism.

The Academy has had a long and distinguished legacy, with its descendants including Aristotle’s Lyceum, the Neo-Platonic academy of the 4th Century AD, the Medici Platonic Academy of the 15th Century, and the numerous academies established throughout Enlightenment Europe.

Also, how long should civ or leader pedias be?

 

[senshidenshi]

Just for the record, here's my Pericles DoM and Rhodian Slinger from like two months ago.

 

[Mobfire]

*sees all the pedia entries*
*greece hype intensifies*

@einayim I don't know about modded civs, but in vanilla, pedia entries for leaders tend to be about 8 paragraphs long with an average of 3-4 sentences per paragraph. On average civilization entries are between 10 and 15 of those paragraphs. I would assume that modded civs wouldn't need that much, tho.

 

[TranquilSilence]

Here's the Phalangitai pedia that I pm'd Pouakai earlier in case a synthesis of einayim's entry and mine is required;

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Phalangitai
One of the many strengths of the Macedonian army was in the Phalangitai, or ‘Men of the Phalanx,’ which would in turn go on to become the backbone of many Hellenistic armies, distancing them from the Hoplite-based affairs of the Classical Period. The main thing separating the Macedonian Phalangitai from their classical counterparts was the Sarissa spear, introduced by Phillip II – a weapon that could reach up to 6 meters and weighed anywhere from 5 to 6 kilograms. These monstrous weapons proved immensely successful- not just for their design, but for the way they revolutionised Greek military tactics.

The great length of the Sarissa yielded a large advantage over earlier Dory spears, increasing the amount of weapons faced by the enemy at the head of the Phalanx to the extent that an enemy could four to five rows of pikes before reaching the first rank of footsoldiers. The spears of the soldiers in the rows that could not reach the front of the formation would often be angled diagonally upwards in order to provide some shelter from arrows and missiles to the entire group. Whilst the synchronised movements and compact formations of the Phalangitai were an improvement upon the early infantry tactics of Ancient Greece – they still had unfortunate drawbacks.

The immense size of the Sarissa – which could be twice as long as their predecessors – meant that Macedonian infantry had to compromise on the size of their shields, though this was no great loss as often the bristling wall of spears provided more than enough protection for the front couple of rows of soldiers. The Compact formations used to maximise the effect of the Sarissa did exacerbate their unwieldiness however – and often the size of the weaponry would hamper and slow the movements of the Macedonian infantry. The oversized weaponry was also comparatively lacking in close range combat compared to the earlier designs – highlighting the idea that the strength of the sarissa came from the formation that it was utilised in.

It was the use of the Sarissa, and new military tactics that allowed first Phillip II and then his son, Alexander the Great to expand their domains at such a unprecedented rate. Often considered unbreakable from the front, the Phalangitai would often need to be successfully flanked to be disrupted. This was taken to extremes when at the Battle of Raphia (217 BC) it seemed that War Elephants would be required to break the lines of both the Seleucid and Ptolemaic phalanxes.

Could probably do with some tidying up but should otherwise be fine

@einayim; Civ and Leader pedias tend to be on the longer side of things - often with multiple paragraphs discussing different historical periods, events and such.

 

[DarthStarkiller]

Here's an updated list, things are looking good. The problem is that we've reached the point where only the long texts are left - unless you don't count DoM's as long.

By the way, where does the name Dawn of Man come from?

Pergamon

• DoM
• Civ pedia
• Leader pedia

Macedon

• Updated DoM
• Civ pedia

Sparta

• Civ Pedia
• Leader Pedia

Athens

• Civ pedia
• Leader pedia

City States

 

[GPuzzle]

The load-up screen in Civ5 mods is labeled as being "DawnOfMan".

 

[DarthStarkiller]

Just remembered that I had started writing the Civilopedia for Attalus. If anyone wants to finish it, feel free to do so. Otherwise, I guess I'll do it, but not right now.

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History
Attalus I was the third dynast of the Kingdom of Pergamon and the first to rule as a king, his reign spanning from 241 to 197 BC. During it, he managed to defeat the Galatian tribes who had been terrorizing the region and the Seleucid Empire, resulting in the conquest of their territories in Asia Minor. He also played a major role in the Second Macedonian War as an ally of Rome, earning him the islands of Aegina and Andros and establishing the Kingdom was a major power in the Greek East.
Early Life
He was the son of Attalus and Antiochis, his father being the niece of Philetaerus, founder of the Attalid dynasty. His uncle, Eumenes I, the second Pergamenian king, adopted him after his father died when he was just a young child, allowing Attalus to succeed him to throne. He was a gifted charioteer, winning in the Olympic Games and being honored with a monument in Pergamon.

 

[Dracleath]

I don't know if I missed something in the install, but I've been having some trouble with the Voi unit in the slavs not showing animations. In the FXSXML there are references to some *_CHARMC.* animations that are *_CHARGE.* in every other unit I've seen, didn't know if there were supposed to be custom animations included but changing it back to CHARGE like in the default spearman unit seems to fix the unit disappearing issues in game without any real noticeable ill effects.

 

[Pouakai]

Thanks for the help everyone, still hard at work putting everything together but it's coming together nicely now. Though I may have missed it, but it seems like we're still missing a pedia for Rodos. Think I removed it accidentally, unless one has been written already and I just missed it.

I don't know if I missed something in the install, but I've been having some trouble with the Voi unit in the slavs not showing animations. In the FXSXML there are references to some *_CHARMC.* animations that are *_CHARGE.* in every other unit I've seen, didn't know if there were supposed to be custom animations included but changing it back to CHARGE like in the default spearman unit seems to fix the unit disappearing issues in game without any real noticeable ill effects.

Thanks for the heads up, I'll go through and edit that once I'm done with this current glut

 

[Tarmont]

I don't know if I missed something in the install, but I've been having some trouble with the Voi unit in the slavs not showing animations. In the FXSXML there are references to some *_CHARMC.* animations that are *_CHARGE.* in every other unit I've seen, didn't know if there were supposed to be custom animations included but changing it back to CHARGE like in the default spearman unit seems to fix the unit disappearing issues in game without any real noticeable ill effects.

ahahahHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

thats what happens when you replace all instances of GE (Greater Europe) in a file with MC (More Civs).