Ancient Greece Timeline

Agamemnon

1524 BCE

Agamemnon was the king of Mycenae and the leader of the Greek army in the Trojan War of Homers Illiad. He was known as a selfish king, but a good warrior.

Homer

850 BCE

Homer is the assumed author of the Iliad, the writer of two epic powers that are the main parts of Ancient Greece literature.

First Olympic Games

776 BCE

The ancient Olympic Games started as a festival, then progressed more to a competition to honor Zeus.

Dracos Code of Law

620 BCE

This law was created by king Draco for the Athenian people. It was revised from the oral law by Athenian aristocrats.

Darius l

550 BCE

Darius the great was the third king in Persia, he remain in this position from 552 BCE until he died in 486 BCE.

Rise of Tyrants

546 BCE

A Tyrant occurred in Athens in the 6th century BCE. Peisistratos led some tyrants and had many failed attempts to try to gain power. He led until he died in 527.

Xerxes

519 BCE

Xerxes was the four th king of the Achaemenid Empire, lasting from 486 to 465 BCE. He is known most for the invasion of Greece from all across the hellespont.

Democracy

508 BCE

The main ideas of democracy and constitution as a form of government started in ancient Athens in about 508 BCE. Many city states had different forms of government.

First Persian war

499 BCE

The first Persian war was a series of battles between the Achaemenid Empire and city states in Greece. This all started at about 499 BCE and didn’t end until 449 BCE.

Pericles

495 BCE

Pericles was a very influential statesman in Ancient Greece. He was the general of Athens during the golden age.

Battle of Marathon

490 BCE

This was the first Persian invasion into Greece, the battle occurred on the mountain of plain northeastern Attica.

Second Persian war

480 BCE

The second Persian war happened because King Xerxes wanted conquer all of Greece. They came back to fight again because they had lost the first time. King Xerxes had planned his second attack for years.

The battle of Thermopylae

480 BCE

This battle was happened between an alliance of Greece’s city states, Led by king Leonidas l from Sparta, along with the Achaemenid empire of Xerxes. This lasted for 3 days

Parthenon Completed

432 BCE

The Parthenon is a temple on the Athenian acropolis in Greece, which was built to honor the goddess Athena. The temple was officially finished in 432 BCE

Peloponnesian wars

431 BCE

This war was led by Athens against Peloponnesian people whom were led by Sparta. The Peloponnesian league resulted in a victory.

Plato

428 BCE

Plato was a philosopher from Athens, during the classical period in Ancient Greece. Athens founded the Platonist school of thought.

The Catapult

399 BCE

The Catapult was one of the most effective contraptions used in war by the Greeks.

Socrates

399 BCE

Socrates was a scholar, teacher and a philosopher in Ancient Greece. His socratic strategy laid the blueprints for western systems of logic and philosophy

Platos Academy

387 BCE

Plato is the founder of this academy. It lasted through =out the Hellenistic period, until the death of philo of Larissa in 83 BCE

Aristotle

385 BCE

Aristotle was a Greek philosopher during the classical period, He was taught by Plato, he also founded the Lyceum (the schools philosophy)

Philip ll of Macedon

382 BCE

Phillip ll of Macedonio was the king of Macedonio from 359 BC until he was assassinated in 336 BC

Alexander the Great

356 BCE

Alexander the Great was a king of Ancient Greece. He succeeded his father Philip ll to the throne at 20.

Battle of Chaeronea

338 BCE

This battle was fought between the Macedonians and an alliance formed by Greek city states.

League of Corinth

338 BCE

The League of Corinth was created after the battle of chaeronea, to monitor the military use in the war of Greece against Persia.