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Homer is the presumed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two central works of ancient Greek literature. The Iliad is set during the Trojan War.
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The first recorded Olympic Games were held at Olympia in the Greek city-state of Elis. The ancient Olympics, held every four years, occurred during a religious festival honoring the Greek god Zeus.
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Draco's code was a written law code created in response to the unjust interpretation and modification of oral law by Athenian aristocrats.
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Athenian leader Cleisthenes introduced a system of political reforms that he called demokratia, or “rule by the people”
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The first Persian invasion of Greece ended with the decisive Athenian victory at the Battle of Marathon.
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The Battle of Marathon was fought between the citizens of Athens, aided by Plataea, and a Persian force commanded by Datis and Artaphernes. The battle was the culmination of the first attempt by Persia, under King Darius I, to subjugate Greece.
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The Peloponnesian War was fought by the Delian League against the Peloponnesian League. The reason for the war was Athenian control of the Delian League.
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Plato was an Athenian philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, founder of the Platonist school of thought, and the Academy, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.
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Socrates was a scholar, teacher and philosopher. His Socratic method laid the groundwork for Western systems of logic and philosophy.
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The Academy was founded by Plato in Athens. Aristotle studied there for twenty years before founding his own school, the Lyceum. The Academy persisted throughout the Hellenistic period as a skeptical school, until coming to an end after the death of Philo of Larissa.
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Philip II of Macedon was the king of the kingdom of Macedon from 359 BC until his assassination in 336 BC. He was a member of the Argead dynasty of Macedonian kings, the third son of King Amyntas III of Macedon, and father of Alexander the Great and Philip III.
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The Battle of Chaeronea was fought in Boeotia, between the Macedonians and an alliance of some of the Greek city-states.
