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First temple to Demeter & Persephone built at Eleusis
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The oracle of Zeus is established at Dodona.
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The site of Delphi first acquires a religious significance.
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First athletic games in honour of Zeus are held at Olympia with one event, the stadion foot race.
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Greek poet Hesiod writes his Theogony and Works and Days.
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The temple of Apollo is built on the island of Delos.
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Temples are built in honour of Apollo, Demeter and Dionysos on the island of Naxos.
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The site of Sounion first acquires a religious significance
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The first temple in honour of Apollo is built at Delphi.
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Heraion, temple dedicated to Hera built at Olympia.
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The Dionysia becomes a major Athenian festival in honour of Dionysos
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The Eleusinian Mysteries become part of the official Athenian religious calendar.
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First athletic games at Nemea in honour of Zeus.
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The temple of Apollo is constructed at Corinth.
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Athens removes and prohibits further burials on Delos to purify the sacred island.
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The second temple to Apollo is constructed at Delphi, replacing the first temple destroyed by fire.
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Asclepius becomes the principal god of worship at Epidaurus.
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Persians destroy the sanctuary at Sounion
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The bronze Poseidon or Zeus statue (of Cape Artemesium) is sculpted.
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Temple of Zeus is built at Olympia with a statue of Apollo dominating the west pediment and containing the cult statue of Zeus by Phidias.
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The Hephaisteion, temple to Athena & Hephaistos, built in Athens.
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The construction of the Parthenon in Athens by the architects Iktinos and Kallikrates under the direction of Phidias.
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Temple of Poseidon at Sounion re-built.
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The cult statue of Athena Parthenos is dedicated in the Parthenon of Athens.
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Sanctuary of Aphrodite constructed at Argos.
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The cult statue of Zeus by Phidias is dedicated in the Temple of Zeus, Olympia. It is one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
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The Temple dedicated to Athena Nike is constructed on the acropolis of Athens.
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The Erechtheion of Athens acropolis is constructed with six Caryatids in the south porch.
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Temple to Asclepius constructed at Epidaurus.
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Temple of Zeus built at Nemea.
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The third temple to Apollo is constructed at Delphi, replacing the earlier temple damaged by the earthquake.
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Temple dedicated to Aphrodite constructed at Epidaurus.
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The Colossus of Rhodes, a representation of Helios, is built in Rhodes town harbour, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
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Theodosius I orders the closure of all Greek pagan sites.
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Roman Emperor Theodosius definitively ends all pagan Games in Greece.
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Emperor Theodosios II orders the destruction of Olympia.