Ancient Greece

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  • 1524 BCE

    Agamemnon

    Agamemnon
    was the king of Mycenae and leader of the Greek army in the Trojan War of Homer's Illiad. He is presented as a great warrior but selfish ruler, famously upsetting his invincible champion Achilles and so prolonging the war and suffering of his men.
  • 776 BCE

    First Olympic GameS

    First Olympic GameS
    The first Games were planned in Athens, the capital of Greece. In Athens, 280 participants from 13 nations competed in 43 events.
  • 620 BCE

    Draco’s Code of Law

    Draco’s Code of Law
    Response to the unjust interpretation and modification of oral law by Athenian aristocrats. This enactment of a rule of law was an early manifestation of Athenian democracy.
  • 550 BCE

    Darius I

    Darius I
    commonly known as Darius the Great, was the third Persian King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire,
  • 519 BCE

    Xerxes

    Xerxes
    Was the fourth King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire. He was the son and successor of Darius the Great and his mother was Atossa, a daughter of Cyrus the Great, the first Achaemenid
  • 508 BCE

    Democracy

    Democracy
    A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.
  • 494 BCE

    Pericles

    Pericles
    DescriptionPericles was a prominent and influential Greek statesman, orator and general of Athens during its golden age, specifically the time between the Persian and the Peloponnesian Wars.
  • 492 BCE

    First Persian War

    First Persian War
    When Greeks in the Persian-controlled territory rose in the Ionian Revolt. Athens, and other Greek cities, sent aid, but were quickly forced to back down after defeat in 494 BCE.
  • 490 BCE

    Battle of Marathon

    Battle of Marathon
    DescriptionThe Battle of Marathon took place during the first Persian invasion of Greece. The battle was the culmination of the first attempt by Persia, under King Darius I, to subjugate Greece
  • 484 BCE

    Homer

    Homer
    Homer is the presumed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two hugely influential epic poems of ancient Greece. He is one of the greatest literary artists in the world.
  • 480 BCE

    The Persian War

    The Persian War
    Instead of sending his fleet out to sea he instructed his men to dig a canal through Athos, which took three years to complete. This was because he feared his fleet sustaining damage should another storm arise
  • 480 BCE

    Battle of Thermopylae

    Battle of Thermopylae
    was fought between an alliance of Greek city-states, led by King Leonidas I of Sparta, and the Achaemenid Empire of Xerxes I over the course of three days, during the second Persian invasion of Greece.
  • 432 BCE

    Parthenon Completed

    Parthenon Completed
    The Parthenon was built by the architects Ictinus and Callicrates under the supervision of the sculptor Phidias.
  • 431 BCE

    Peloponnesian Wars

    Peloponnesian Wars
    Fought by the Delian League led by Athens against the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta. Historians have traditionally divided the war into three phases.
  • 428 BCE

    Plato

    Plato
    DescriptionPlato was an Athenian philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, founder of the Platonist school of thought, and the Academy,
  • 400 BCE

    Catapult

    Catapult
    A forked stick with an elastic band fastened to the two prongs, used by children for shooting small stones; a slingshot.
  • 399 BCE

    Socrates

    Socrates
    He was a scholar, teacher and a philosopher. His Socratic method laid the groundwork for western system of logic philosophy.
  • 387 BCE

    The Academy in Athens

    The Academy in Athens
    The academy was founded by Plato. Aristotle studied there for twenty years before founding his own school, the Lyceum.
  • 385 BCE

    Aristotle

    Aristotle
    DescriptionAristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece.
  • 356 BCE

    Alexander the Great

    Alexander the Great
    Was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon and a member of the Argead dynasty.
  • 338 BCE

    Battle of Chaeronea

    Battle of Chaeronea
    Between the Macedonians led by Philip II of Macedon and an alliance of some of the Greek city-states led by Athens and Thebes.
  • 338 BCE

    League of Corinth

    League of Corinth
    Offensive and defensive alliance of all the Greek states except Sparta, organized in 337 BCE at Corinth under the leadership of Philip II of Macedon.
  • 6 BCE

    Rise of the Tyrants

    Rise of the Tyrants
    Tyrant, Greek tyrannos, a cruel and oppressive ruler or, in ancient Greece, a ruler who seized power unconstitutionally or inherited such power
  • May 21, 1527

    Philip II

    Philip II
    Philip II, King of Macedonia conquered
    Greece. He was soon assassinated and his 20 year old son took over the throne.