Timeline of Ancient Greece By Connor21 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