GREEK TIMELINE By nickdavenhall Period: 2000 BCE to 1448 BCE Minoans Period: 2000 BCE to 1100 BCE Heroic Age Period: 1600 BCE to 1100 BCE Mycenaeans Period: 1100 BCE to 750 BCE Dorians Period: 1100 BCE to 800 BCE Dark ages 1000 BCE Eruption of Thera 776 BCE First Olympics Period: 750 BCE to 750 BCE Homer 594 BCE Introduction of Democracy in Athens 594 BCE First Coins Struck Period: 550 BCE to 486 BCE Darius 546 BCE Athen's First Tyrant Period: 540 BCE to 480 BCE Leonidas Period: 519 BCE to 466 BCE Xerxes Period: 492 BCE to 480 BCE 1st Persion War Period: 490 BCE to 490 BCE Battle of Marathon Period: 480 BCE to 479 BCE 2nd Persian War Period: 480 BCE to 480 BCE Battle of Salamis Period: 469 BCE to 399 BCE Socrates Period: 461 BCE to 429 BCE Pericles Period: 431 BCE to 404 BCE Peloponnesian War 430 BCE Plague in Athens 399 BCE Socrates Executed Period: 384 BCE to 384 BCE Plato Period: 384 BCE to 322 BCE Aristotle Period: 382 BCE to 336 BCE King Philip of Macedonia 380 BCE Plato founds Academy Period: 356 BCE to 323 BCE Alexander the Great 335 BCE Aristotle starts Lyceum Period: 334 BCE to 323 BCE Alexander's Conquest 331 BCE Alexandria Founded 146 BCE Romans Invade