Welcome to Ancient Ellenic Civilization Store
A few years ago a group of friends from different countries with great passion for the Ancient Greek culture started a blog. Their aim was to spread the knowledge around the world about the amazing Ancient Ellenic Civilization which has affected so many civilizations and still continues to influence modern cultures today!
The culture of Greece or Ellada (Ελλάδα in Greek) evolved thousands of years ago, and is widely considered to be the cradle of modern Western culture. That’s because political systems and procedures such as democracy, trial by jury and lawful equality originated there.
Ancient Grecian thinkers and architects was immensely influential in many different fields such as astrology, philosophy, mathematics, biology, engineering, medicine or linguistics, A lot all of the information we take for granted today was first invented by the ancient Greeks.
Did you know that today’s Olympic Games actually was created by the ancient Greeks 776 BC in Olympia, in south west Greece as a festival in honor of Zeus? 2700 years later we are still arranging the Olympics - today the world’s greatest game.
Not to mention the realm of art – including literature, music, architecture, design and the performing arts – the Greeks established many of the standards by which today identify beauty and creative value.
To our delight, the blog grew rapidly and is followed by more than 11 000 philellenes* all over the world! In addition to the blog, we thought it would be fun to design a collection of items - inspired by the amazing ancient Greek culture - so we created this online store for you! By supporting our blog and purchasing items from our store you help us to spread the word as proud ambassadors of the Ancient Ellenic Civilization!
* = admirer of Greeks and everything Greek, deriving from the Greek word φίλος philos "friend" and hellênismos "Greek”.