timeline of classical mythology

early bronze age

3000-2100 BCE

writing systems develop in mesopotamia 3000 BCE

Gilgamesh rules the city of Uruk 2800 BCE

Sargon of Akkad defeats the sumerian states 2300 BCE

middle bronze age

2100-1600 BCE

rise of the Hittite empire in Antolia 1750 BCE

hymn to thoth in Egypt 1332 BCE

Late bronze age (mycenaean)

1600-1150 BCE

linear b used in mainland greece

mycence and other cities destroyed (1200-1150 BCE)

epic of gilgomesh, Enuman Elish and the Descent of ishtar written in mesopotamia

Troy destroyed in Antolia (1200-1150 bce)

iron age

1150-750 BCE

standard versions of gilgamesh, enuma elish and descent of ishtar

hieght of the phrygian empire and worship of Cybele (8th ce)

Israelites, philistines, and phenicians flourish in the levant region, portions of the hebrew bible are composed inclduing genesis

first olympics 776 bce

archaic period

750-490 BCW

Homer composes the Iliad and Odyssey 750 BCE

Hesiod composes Theogony and Works and Days (700)

Anonymous and Homeric hymns (700)

Peisistratrid tyranny (546-510 bce)

democratic reforms in athens (508 bce)

edited portions of genesis

begining of the roman republic 509

classical period

490-323 bce

persians invade greece 490-479

aeschylus (father of tragedy) composes Prometheus Bound and Oresteia (525-456)

Sophocles writes Antigone

Peloponnesian war (431-404)

Euripides writes Medo and Bacchae

Plato writes symposium

alexander the great conquers egypt (336-323)

alexander the great conquers babylon 9n 331 and dies in 323

Hellenistic period

greece under roman control (146)

Apolionius of rhodes (3rd cent) author lived

Argonautica poem

imperial roman period

30 bce - 476 ce

Plutarch 46-120 ce,

Description of greece (map/travel guide) - Pausanias

xenophon (an ephesian tale)

anonymous (c 150) the acts of paul and thecla

the birth of jesus in levant

Ephesus is named provincial captial under rome’s control 30 ce

senate grants octavian the title of Augustus (27 bce)

Catullus writes Atis

Vergil writes teh Aeneid

Ovid writes metamorphoses

Senca writes Medea, Hercules Furens (4-65 ce)

Apuleius writes Cupid and Psyche (123 ce)