Timeline of Ancient Greece

  • Period: 300 to 500

    Timeline of Ancient Greece

  • 429

    Death of Pericles

  • 430

    Annual invasions of Attica begin; visitation of the plague; Xenophon born

  • 431

    The Archidamian War, the first part of the Great Peloponnesian War begins

  • 435

    Construction of Erechtheion begins

  • 437

    Construction of Propylaea begins

  • 438

    Pheideias’ Statue of Athena dedicated

  • Period: 445 to 461

    Peloponnesian Wars

  • 446

    Aristophanes born

  • 454

    Peloponnesian Wars

  • 460

    Pericles leads Athens into its ‘Golden Age’

  • Period: 479 to 497

    Persian Wars

  • 488

    Persian Wars

  • 499

    Ionian Revolt