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The first Olympic Games take place, and are to happen again every for years. They are to honor the Greek god Zeus. These games are still going on every four years today.
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Homer, the greatest Greek poet, begins to write two of the greatest literary works in history: the Iliad and the Odyssey. They are still read around the world today. They are also studied in many schools.
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During this naval battle, the Greeks lured the Persians to more narrow, shallow waters, leaving no room for the Persians to escape. Greeks ram there ships into the Persian fleet, sinking the Persian's ships, and the Greeks claim victory.
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During the Golden Age of Athens, Athens produced some of the world's greatest artistic, architectural, Philosophical and cultural developments. Athens flourished under the rule of Pericles, who made Athens the main political power in Greece and shaped the Athenian empire and democracy into the one of the most important city-states of Greece (rivaling Sparta).
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Though they never truly determined his birth date, Socrates was a great Greek philosopher, who asked philosophical questions to people at the market place, making them question the way they lived. He answered questions with questions, never really giving the answer. He was eventually sentenced to death, with hemlock poisoning.
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Sophocles begins to write plays, later making theatre a popular form of entertainment. He is one of few Greeks so famous that many of his plays still survive and are preformed today. Two famous ones are Oresteia and Oedipus the King.
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The Parthenon, the best surviving building in Athens, is completed on the Acropolis. It was built in honor of the Greek goddess Athena, with a giant statue of her built. It was later burned by the Persians.
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The Peloponnesian wars begin. This war is fought between the Delian League (led by Athens) and the Peloponnesian League (led by Sparta). This war was fought for 27 years, but a plague swept through Athens, helping Sparta greatly. In the end, the Spartans were victorious, bringing an end to the Delian league and closing the curtain on the Golden Age of Athens.
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Plato, a student of Socrates and well-known Greek philosopher, founds a school called the Academy. It is on a higher level of learning than most schools, and one of the first better learning institutes of the western world.
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The Roman empire conquers Greece, therefore making it now part of the Roman empire.
