The Classical Age By bMelton Period: 1600 BCE to 1500 BCE Minoans height Period: 1400 BCE to 1200 BCE Mycenaeans height 1250 BCE Trojan War 750 BCE Homer 631 BCE Draco 594 BCE Solon reforms 549 BCE Cyrus conquers the Medes to start the Achaemenid Empire (Persian) 530 BCE Cambyses II rules 522 BCE Darius II (the Great) rules 513 BCE Scythians camping of Darius 507 BCE Cleisthenes brings 'democracy' to Athens Period: 499 BCE to 493 BCE Ionian Revolt Period: 492 BCE to 449 BCE Persian Wars 490 BCE Battle of Marathon and Pheidippides 484 BCE Herodotus born 480 BCE Battle of Thermopylae, Ephiliates, and the "300" 480 BCE Battle of Salamis 479 BCE Battle of Plataea 470 BCE Socrates born 442 BCE Pericles in his prime Period: 431 BCE to 404 BCE Peloponnesian War 428 BCE Plato born 384 BCE Aristotle born 336 BCE Alexander the Great rules