CHART
OF GREEK CIVILIZATION
|
CENTURIES B.C.E.
|
EVENTS
/ LEADERS
|
CULTURE
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III MILLENIUM
|
BRONZE AGE BEGINS |
|
|
"COMING OF THE GREEKS" |
|
|
--TO MIDDLE OF
XIV
|
MINOAN CIVILIZATION (CRETE) |
|
|
--TO LATTER PART
OF XII
|
MYCENEAN CIVILIZATION |
oral tradition,
starting when?
(continues later despite literacy) |
|
XII (?)
|
DESTRUCTION OF TROY |
|
|
XI
|
"DORIAN INVASIONS"
"DARK AGES" |
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VIII
|
PHOENICIAN ALPHABET
OLYMPIC GAMES BEGIN (776)
WESTERN COLONIZATION BEGINS
RISE OF POLIS
PANHELLENIC CULTS
(e.g. DELPHI)
RISE OF MIDDLE CLASS |
Performative poetry
"Homeric" poems set in writing (?)
Hesiod, Theogony ,
Works and Days
Choral poetry
Earliest "Homeric Hymns" |
|
VII
|
BEGINNING OF COINAGE
AGE OF THE TYRANTS
IN GREECE
(650-500) |
Presocratic philosophers
Athenian black-figure
pottery
Doric architectural
style |
|
VI
|
REFORMS OF SOLON
IN ATHENS, 594
TYRANNY OF PEISISTRATUS,
560
REFORMS OF CLEISTHENES,
508 |
Pythagoras
Xenophanes
Athenian red-figure pottery |
|
V
|
PERSIAN WAR, 490-479
(PEACE 449)
(LED TO ATHENIAN
EMPIRE)
PERICLES, 461
PELOPONNESIAN WAR,
431-404
ATHENIAN EXPEDITION
TO SYRACUSE, 415
DEFEAT OF ATHENS,
404 |
Protagoras
Classical art
Ionic architectural style
PARTHENON, APP.
460
AESCHYLUS, 525-456
PHIDIAS
PINDAR
HERODOTUS
SOPHOCLES, 496-406
EURIPIDES, 480-406
SOPHISTS, C. 450-400
SOCRATES, D. 399
ARISTOPHANES
THUCYDIDES
CORINTHIAN ARCHITECTURAL
STYLE |
|
IV
|
TRIAL OF SOCRATES, 399
PHILIP OF MACEDONIA
KING, 359 |
PLATO
ZENO THE
STOIC
EUCLID, ARISTARCHUS |
| TO 323 |
ALEXANDER'S EMPIRE |
ARISTOTLE |
| --TO 30 |
HELLENISTIC AGE |
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