Timeline of Classical Athens

  • Period: 330 to 500

    Classical Athens

  • 350

    How to Train Your Wife

    Xenophon
  • 355

    Past Activities of a Courtesan

    Apollodorus and Demosthenes
  • 360

    Proof of Marriage: Ciphon's Daughter

  • 400

    Husbands Defence

    Euphiletus
  • 411

    Women at the Thesmophoria

    Aristophanes, a play
  • 420

    Prosectution Poisoning Trial: Stepmother

    A concubine tried and executed for poisoning the heads of the family?
  • Period: 455 to 461

    Peloponesian Wars

  • 460

    Pericles Leads Athens into its Golden Age

  • Period: 479 to 497

    Persian Wars

  • 499

    The Ionian Revolt

    The Ionian Revolt was a military rebellion by several Greek regions of Asia Minor against Persian rule.