Dr. John Lewis
Ancient Greek Political Chronology (in
brief!)
Greek History in Brief
1900-1200 Minoan
Civilization on
1600-1150 Mycenean Civilization in Southern Greek Mainland
1150-750
Greek Dark Ages; Homer’s Heroic Age: Iliad, Odyssey
Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days
750-480
Archaic Period: Rise of the polis,
form of self-governing Greek city
750-500 Age of Lyric
Poets: Sappho, Alcaeus, Tyrtaeus, Archilochus, Simonides
c. 750
Lycurgus: Spartan Lawgiver
600-400 Pre-Socratic Philosophy
594
Solon: Athenian Lawgiver
560
Pisistratus: Athens under tyranny
510
Cleisthenes: Overthrow of tyranny in Athens
490-479 Persian
Wars: Greeks assert their political independence
490: Marathon; 480/79: Thermopylae, Salamis, Plataea
480
Classical Period
480-431 The Fifty-Year
Period. Parthenon Built. Athenian Drama and Comedy
472 Athens'
Delian League (1st Athenian League) founded
460 -431 Ephialtes, Perikles
lead the Democracy; 458 Aeschylus Oresteia
c.
440
Herodotus writes Histories
431-404 Peloponnesian
War:
411 Oligarchic Counter-Revolution in
403 Spartan Oligarchy in Athens (four months)
427-347 Plato lived
399
Death of Socrates
395-386 Spartan versus a
Coalition of Greek States; King’s Peace of 386
376
Second Athenian Sea League founded
371
Battle of Leuktra; Sparta defeated in Thebes
362
359-338 Ascendance of
Macedonia; Battle of Chaironeia
Macedonian Domination of Greece; Athenian Orator Demosthenes Active
384-322 Aristotle lived
335-323 Alexander's Conquests.
Dies in 323
322-321 Lamian War and
Loss of Greek independence
322 –
31 Hellenistic Period
Rise of Seleucid (Syrian), Ptolemaic (Egyptian) and Macedonian Empires
167
Macedonia and Greece made a Roman Province
146
Rome destroys Carthage and Corinth
87
Sack of Athens by Sulla
John Lewis
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