Ancient Greece By Ella O'Keefe

The First Olympic Game

776 BCE

The first Olympic game was held at a religious sanctuary of Olympia near Greece’s southwest coast to honour a Greek god named Zeus who lived in Mount Olympus with a prize of a wreath of olives as an olive tree was next to Mount Olympus.

Homer Composes The Odyssey

750 BCE

The Odyssey is one of the second most important poems made by an Ancient Greek poet 'Homer', where the poem was linked to a Greek hero named Odysseus who people honour as a legend.

Democracy Begins In Athens

550 BCE

The first democracy was made in Ancient Greece Athens where the citizens [only men not ladies] voted on different laws, rules and other such things as a way to keep their country stabled until other clans joined it and their were to many people apart of the democracy leaders.

Battle Of Marathon- The Greeks Defeat Persian Invaders

490 BCE

The Battle Of Marathon was held on the Marathon plain of north-eastern Attica in 550BCE as the first marked Greco-Persian War when the Persians invaded the Greeks land.

The Battle Of Salamis-The Greeks Defeat Persian Invaders

480 BCE

The Battle Of Salamis is a Greco-Persian War where a Greek fleet defeated a large naval group of Persians in the straits of Salamis between the Athenian port-city of Piraeus and Island of Salamis.

Athens Take Control Of An Empire

450 BCE

Athens took leadership of 180 freed cities to keep the Persians at bay, forming the Delian League. A few cities came to resent having pay for this protection and started to leave until they started to pay for the cities protection until the money was misused.

Greek Plays Are Performed In Athens

440 BCE

The Greek theatre/plays began with festivals honouring their gods. An example is a god named Dionysus, was honoured with a festival called City Dionysia. In Athens Men used to perform songs to welcome Dionysus during the festival Plays and during the plays a mask was worn to show the theme and drama.

Parthenon Is Finished In Athens

432 BCE

The Parthenon is a broken temple located on the Acropolis hill in Athens Greece. It has become a symbol of the country and is one of the most well-known monuments in the world whilst it was built during the height of Classical Greece in 447 BC to 438 BC

War Between Athens and Sparta 431-404 BCE

431 BCE

The Peloponnesian War is a war between the Athens and Sparta joined with their allies. It started off by the two groups not agreeing with the democracy which led to friction and an outgoing war that ended in 404 BCE with Sparta and its allies defeating Athens and their allies.

Alexandra The Great Conquers All

336 BCE

Alexandra The Great was a Macedonian ruler who established one of the biggest empires the ancient world has seen being the greatest leader who everyone followed through life and death. After he died he influenced Greek and Asian cultures to make an historical epoch the Hellenistic Period.

Greece Is Conquered By Rome

146 BCE

Greece was conquered by Romans that took over the Greek settelment of Tairquinii and than eventually conquered the Greek Cities and the Kingdom of Macedon.