Digital Learning Commons: Greek City-States: Megara

Megara

Μέγαρα

Residents called Megarians.
Commercial trade center at the entrance to the Peloponnesus Peninsula
Megara could bargain with armies and levy tolls on trade ships
Wealth poured into Megara between the 7th and 6th Centuries BC
Colonized all around the Mediterranean

Important Megarians

Theagenes: Denounced the rich and led the poor to overthrow the government
Theognis: Poet and historian

Polis Profile: Megara

Megara, Greece

Megara Images

Archeological Site at Megara: Theagenes fountain

Photo by O.Mustafin via Wikimedia Commons

Treasury of the Megarians (Museum of Ancient Olympia, Greece)

Photo by sp!ros via Flickr

Megara by Vincenzo Coronelli, 1687

Vincenzo Coronelli - Repubblica di Venezia p. IV. Citta, Fortezze, ed altri Luoghi principali dell' Albania, Epiro e Livadia, e particolarmente i posseduti da Veneti descritti e delineati dal p. Coronelli, Venice, 1688.

Temple Relief

Marble relief from the West Frieze of the Temple of Athena-Nike: Greeks fighting Greeks, perhaps showing the Battle of Megara in 458 BC. On display at the British Museum.