Ancient Greece By 21cowanj 2100 BCE Greek speaking people arrive in Greece 776 BCE First Olympic Games is held 700 BCE The city state of Athens is formed 507 BCE Athens becomes a Democracy 490 BCE Persia attacks Greece, but is defeated 438 BCE The Parthenon is built 404 BCE Sparta wins the war against Athens 323 BCE The great age of Greece ends 323 BCE Alexander the Great, Greece's ruler, dies