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TIMELINE OF ANCIENT GREECE 3300-1000 BCE The earliest known prehistoric civilizations occupy the AEGEAN world. This period marks the rise and fall of the MINOAN and MYCENAEAN civilizations . 2200 BCE Indo-European invaders, speaking the earliest forms of Greek, enter the mainland of Greece, and the MYCENAEAN CIVILIZATION (named after the leading
Timeline of Greek History from Neolithic to the Roman conquest (death of Cleopatra in 33BC)
Many of you have made inquiries concerning different aspects of Greek history and culture. I thought I'd share them with others and link the research I had done on the subjects to items in the chronology.
Classical Period 480 – 323 B.C. 1. 479 B.C. – Greeks defeat Persian army at the Battle of Plateae 2. 477 B.C. – Delian league lead by Athens 3. 472 B.C. – Aeschylus writes first surviving play, The Persians 4. 470 B.C. – Socrates, Greek Philosopher is born 5. 465 B.C. – Helot revolt against Sparta 6. 461 B.C.
Classical antiquity is a term for a long period of cultural history centered on the Mediterranean Sea, comprising the interlocking civilizations of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. It refers to the timeframe of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome .
The Classical Period in Greece. Jul 480 BCE Xerxes I makes extensive preparations to invade mainland Greece by building depots, canals and a boat bridge across the Hellespont.
This is a timeline of ancient Greece from its emergence around 800 BC to its subjection to the Roman Empire in 146 BC. For earlier times, see Greek Dark Ages, Aegean civilizations and Mycenaean Greece. For later times see Roman Greece, Byzantine Empire and Ottoman Greece. For modern Greece after 1820, see Timeline of modern Greek history.
