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Outline of Ancient Greek History

Period	Political events	Cultural monuments
Minoan: 3000-1450 BC		Map of Bronze Age Aegean Map of Ancient Crete showing major Bronze Age population centers Palace at Cnossus: Throne Room, c. 1600 BC Images of Minoan Snake Goddess: Faience statuette, c. 1600 BC; another view Chryselephantine statuette, c. 1600 BC Seal, c. 1600 BC Antelope Fresco from Thera Gold cup from Athens, 1500-1450 BC
Mycenaean: 1600-1150 BC	Destruction of Cnossus, c. 1380 BC Destruction of Troy VII-A, c. 1250 BC Destruction of Mycenae, c. 1150 BC	Citadel of Mycenae Aerial view Plan Lion's gate
Dark Ages: 1150-800 BC	Migrations, 1050-950 BC	Centaur from Lefkandi, 900-800 BC Geometric amphora from Athens, c. 850 BC
Archaic: 800-500	Traditional date of the foundation of Rome, 753 BC Republican government at Rome, 510 BC Democratic government at Athens, 508 BC	Homer's Iliad and Odyssey Hesiod: Theogony and Works and Days Homeric Hymns Olympic games Middle Corinthian orientalizing vase Corinthian orientalizing vase, c. 600 BC Naxian Sphinx from Delphi, 570-560 BC Exekias: Ajax and Achilles, c. 530 BC Siphnian Treasury, Delphi, 525 BC: Council of the Olympian Gods: General View Detail Detail Gigantomachy: General View Detail Detail
Classical: 500-323	Persian Wars: Battle of Marathon, 490 BC Battle of Salamis, 480 BC Peloponnesian War, 431-404 BC Alexander the Great, d. 323 BC Map of conquests Portrait	Olympia, Temple of Zeus, 472-457 BC: West Pediment: General view Detail: Apollo with Centaurs Detail: Apollo (torso) Detail: Apollo (head) Cult Statue of Zeus (reconstructed) Aeschylus (525-456 BC): Prometheus Bound (?) Oresteia , 458 BC Athens: Parthenon, 447-438 BC Sophocles (496-405 BC): Antigone, 442-441 BC Oedipus the King, 429-425 BC (?) Oedipus at Colonus, 401 BC Euripides (485-406 BC): Medea, 431 BC Bacchae, 406 BC Plato: Republic (Myth of Er), 387 BC
Hellenistic: 321-146 BC	First Punic War, 264-241 BC Second Punic War, 218-201 BC Second Macedonian War, 200-196 BC Proclamation of freedom for the Greek cities by Titus Flamininus at Isthmian Games of 196 BC Third Punic War, 149-146 BC Destruction of Carthage, 146 BC Achaean Revolt, 146 BC Sack of Corinth, 146 BC	Livius Andronicus, fl. 240 BC: Odussia Gaius Naevius, d. 204-201 BC: Bellum Punicum Quintus Ennius, 239-169 BC Annales
Roman: 146 BC-337 AD	Battle of Actium, 32 BC Death of Augustus, 14 AD Death of Constantine, 337 AD	Vergil (Publius Vergilius Maro), 70-19 BC Aeneid, 19 BC Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), 43 BC-17/18 AD Metamorphoses, 8 AD ? 'Apollodorus' fl. c. 200 AD Library