Ancient Greece By avawood Period: 2000 BCE to Jan 12, 1100 Heroic Ages Period: 2000 BCE to 1450 BCE MInoans 1645 BCE Eruption of Thera Period: 1600 BCE to Jan 12, 1100 Myceneans 1100 BCE Dorians 776 BCE First Olympics 750 BCE Homer 594 BCE First coins struck 594 BCE Introduction of Democracy in Athens 550 BCE Darius 550 BCE Darius 546 BCE Athens first Tyrant 540 BCE Leonidas 518 BCE Xerxes 492 BCE First Persian War 490 BCE Battle of Marathon 490 BCE Battle of Salamis 480 BCE Battle of Thermopyale 480 BCE Second Persian War 461 BCE Pericles 431 BCE Peloponnesian War 430 BCE Plague in Athens 399 BCE Socrates executed/died 384 BCE Aristotle 382 BCE King Phillip of Macedonia 380 BCE Plato founds academy 357 BCE Alexander's Conquest 348 BCE Plato 335 BCE Aristotle starts the Lyceum 331 BCE Alexandria Founded 146 BCE Romans Invade Period: Jan 11, 1100 to 500 Dark Ages
