religion Dates

1600-1100 BCE

Mycenaen civilisation

Events of Mycenaen civilisation

• Bronze Age warfare

• Men buried with weapons- militaristic

Sources for Myceaen Civilisation

• Iliad

• Odyssey

1100-800 BCE

• Greek dark ages

Dark ages events

• collapse of Mycenaen

• Decline in population and literacy and other aspects of material culture

Source for Dark ages

Hesiod works and days

800-600 BCE

Rise of the polis

Rise of the polis events

• development of city states

• Growth of trade and colonisation

• Emergence of Hoplite Warafre

Source for the rise of the Polis

• aristotles Poetics

776 BCE

• first Olympic Games

• Religious festival honouring Zeus

• Unites city states

Source for Olympic Games

Pausanias descriptions of Greece

800-500 BCE

Archaic period - development of literature

700-400 BCE

Delphic oracles influence

• religious and political importance of delphi

• Prophecies guiding major decisions

Source for Delphic oracles influence

• Plutarch Moralia

594 BCE

Solons Reforms in Athens

• constitutional and economic

• Foundation of democracy

• Cancellation of debts

Source for Solons reforms

Aristotles Athenian Constitution

500 BCE

• era of Greek sculpture

• Phidias

510 BCE

Alcmaeonid family and Spartans free Athens from tyranny

460-430 BCE

Golden Age

Golden age events

• leadership of Pericles

• Construction of Parthenon

• Development of direct democracy, philosophy and dram

Source for golden age

• Plutarch life of Pericles

431-404 BCE

• peloponnesian war

426 BCE

Plague

Death of Pericles

399 BCE

Trial and death of Socrates

323-31 BCE

Hellenistic Kingdoms