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1524 BCE
Agamemnon
was the king of Mycenae and leader of the Greek army in the Trojan War of Homer's Illiad. He is presented as a great warrior but selfish ruler, famously upsetting his invincible champion Achilles and so prolonging the war and suffering of his men. -
776 BCE
First Olympic GameS
The first Games were planned in Athens, the capital of Greece. In Athens, 280 participants from 13 nations competed in 43 events. -
620 BCE
Draco’s Code of Law
Response to the unjust interpretation and modification of oral law by Athenian aristocrats. This enactment of a rule of law was an early manifestation of Athenian democracy. -
550 BCE
Darius I
commonly known as Darius the Great, was the third Persian King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire, -
519 BCE
Xerxes
Was the fourth King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire. He was the son and successor of Darius the Great and his mother was Atossa, a daughter of Cyrus the Great, the first Achaemenid -
508 BCE
Democracy
A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives. -
494 BCE
Pericles
DescriptionPericles was a prominent and influential Greek statesman, orator and general of Athens during its golden age, specifically the time between the Persian and the Peloponnesian Wars. -
492 BCE
First Persian War
When Greeks in the Persian-controlled territory rose in the Ionian Revolt. Athens, and other Greek cities, sent aid, but were quickly forced to back down after defeat in 494 BCE. -
490 BCE
Battle of Marathon
DescriptionThe Battle of Marathon took place during the first Persian invasion of Greece. The battle was the culmination of the first attempt by Persia, under King Darius I, to subjugate Greece -
484 BCE
Homer
Homer is the presumed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two hugely influential epic poems of ancient Greece. He is one of the greatest literary artists in the world. -
480 BCE
The Persian War
Instead of sending his fleet out to sea he instructed his men to dig a canal through Athos, which took three years to complete. This was because he feared his fleet sustaining damage should another storm arise -
480 BCE
Battle of Thermopylae
was fought between an alliance of Greek city-states, led by King Leonidas I of Sparta, and the Achaemenid Empire of Xerxes I over the course of three days, during the second Persian invasion of Greece. -
432 BCE
Parthenon Completed
The Parthenon was built by the architects Ictinus and Callicrates under the supervision of the sculptor Phidias. -
431 BCE
Peloponnesian Wars
Fought by the Delian League led by Athens against the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta. Historians have traditionally divided the war into three phases. -
428 BCE
Plato
DescriptionPlato was an Athenian philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, founder of the Platonist school of thought, and the Academy, -
400 BCE
Catapult
A forked stick with an elastic band fastened to the two prongs, used by children for shooting small stones; a slingshot. -
399 BCE
Socrates
He was a scholar, teacher and a philosopher. His Socratic method laid the groundwork for western system of logic philosophy. -
387 BCE
The Academy in Athens
The academy was founded by Plato. Aristotle studied there for twenty years before founding his own school, the Lyceum. -
385 BCE
Aristotle
DescriptionAristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. -
356 BCE
Alexander the Great
Was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon and a member of the Argead dynasty. -
338 BCE
Battle of Chaeronea
Between the Macedonians led by Philip II of Macedon and an alliance of some of the Greek city-states led by Athens and Thebes. -
338 BCE
League of Corinth
Offensive and defensive alliance of all the Greek states except Sparta, organized in 337 BCE at Corinth under the leadership of Philip II of Macedon. -
6 BCE
Rise of the Tyrants
Tyrant, Greek tyrannos, a cruel and oppressive ruler or, in ancient Greece, a ruler who seized power unconstitutionally or inherited such power -
May 21, 1527
Philip II
Philip II, King of Macedonia conquered
Greece. He was soon assassinated and his 20 year old son took over the throne.