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