greek timeline

By toitoi
  • Period: 3500 BCE to 338 BCE

    Hellenic period

  • Period: 3500 BCE to 1000 BCE

    Minoan and Mycenacan Civilisations

  • Period: 2000 BCE to 300 BCE

    classical greece

  • Period: 1200 BCE to 800 BCE

    Homeric Times

    During this time was the type of arete that was associated with aristocracy
    - the ability to have skills and master weaponry
    - being athletic and fit
    - being a noble warrior/ serving for your country
  • Period: 1100 BCE to 800 BCE

    Dark age of greece/ rise of polis

    Different forms of government
    - Rules by one: Monarchy and tyranny
    - Ruled by the few: Aristocracy and oligarchy
    - Ruled by the many: republic vs democracy Acropolises -
    Agora's - open place of assembly, place for meetings and discussing politics
  • Period: 800 BCE to 500 BCE

    Rise of sparta and athens

  • 776 BCE

    Foundation of olympic games

  • Period: 750 BCE to 550 BCE

    Colonisation of the Mediterranean

  • Period: 525 BCE to 322

    Birth of tragedy, writing and philosophy

  • Period: 499 BCE to 404 BCE

    Persian and peloponeasian wars

  • Period: 495 BCE to 429 BCE

    Pericles

  • Period: 480 BCE to 404 BCE

    golden age of athens

  • 479 BCE

    Delian League

    People who funded athens by supplying them with a strong navy force and went against those who threatened them.
    brought restoration back to athens after defeating the persians
  • Period: 471 BCE to 400 BCE

    Speech from thucydides and pericles

    Thucydides wrote this AFTER the war and I think after writing his speech?
    The speech from Thucydides and Pericles. Pericles was talking about how great Athens is and how they would just need to work harder to overcome future struggles (they didn't)
  • Period: 470 BCE to 322 BCE

    Socrates, Plato and Aristole

    Socrates - 470 to 399
    Plato - 428 to 347
    Aristotle -
  • Period: 436 BCE to 338 BCE

    (I)socrates (arete)

    Aiming to look for the virtue of speech and logic/reason
    - learning about the truth through asking a lot of questions
    - aiming to find solutions to problems Athenians struggled with, striving for excellence on becoming one who understands problems and solves them to make the polis better
  • Period: 434 BCE to 355 BCE

    Xenophans depiction of sparta

    He was writing this during the Peloponnesian war, before it ended
  • 431 BCE

    thucydides writes the history of the pelloponesian war

  • Period: 429 BCE to 347 BCE

    Plato (arete)

    AFTER his death, Plato wrote some reflections on part of his reflections and wrote about what makes a society good and what makes it bad No longer something you have to physically develop but rather mentally develop
    - a pursuit for truth, justice and beauty
    - A person who dedicated themself to gaining knowledge and striving for the excellence of true knowledge
  • 399 BCE

    Death of socrates

    after the Peloponnesian war
    - died due to the fact that he had been asking many people questions, they didn't like him, created a law that he was "breaking" and put him to death
  • Period: 336 BCE to 100 BCE

    Helenistic period

  • Period: 336 BCE to 323 BCE

    Alexander the great

  • 399

    plato writes the apology

    After the death of Socrates and Peloponnesian war