Ancient Greece; a country of city-states (especially Athens and Sparta) that reached its peak in the fifth century BCE WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

Ancient Greece was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity Wikipedia

1100–146 BC Wikipedia Disambiguation

Civilization belonging to an early period of Greek history Wikidata

The Greek speaking world in ancient times, geographically referring not only to modern Greece and southern Balkan peninsula but also to areas of Hellenic culture that were settled during ancient times by Greeks: Cyprus, the Aegean coast of Ionia, southern Italian peninsula and Sicily (known as Magna Graecia) and the scattered Greek settlements on the coasts of what are now Albania, Bulgaria, Egypt, Libya, southern France, southern Spain, Catalonia, Georgia, Romania, and Ukraine. Wiktionary