TIMELINE 800 BC - 100 BC
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The first Olympic games. | ![]() | |||
![]() | about 750 BC | |||
![]() | Early Greek culture. Homer writes the epics 'The Iliad' and the 'Odyssey'. | |||
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Corinth is ruled by the tyrant Kypselos and then his son Periander. | ![]() | |||
![]() | 508 BC ![]() | |||
![]() | Democracy begins in Athens | |||
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Greeks defeat Persian invaders at the battles of Marathon (490 BC)and Salamis (480 BC). | ![]() | |||
![]() | by 450 BC ![]() | |||
![]() | Athens becomes a very powerful city, and controls an empire. | |||
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Greeks theatre thrives in Athens. Many of the most famous Greek plays are written during this time. | ![]() | |||
![]() | 462 - 429 BC | |||
![]() | Perikles is the popular leader at Athens as the general of the Athenian army | |||
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The Parthenon in Athens is finished being built. | ![]() | |||
![]() | 431 - 404 BC ![]() | |||
![]() | War between Athens and Sparta (the Peloponnesian war) | |||
428 BC | ![]() | |||
The revolt of Mytilene | ![]() | |||
![]() | 404 BC | |||
![]() | Sparta defeats Athens. | |||
338 BC | ![]() | |||
Philip, king of Macedonia, takes control of Greece. | ![]() | |||
![]() | 336 - 323 BC | |||
![]() | Alexander the Great, son of Philip, conquers most of the known world as far east as India. | |||
146 BC | ![]() | |||
Rome conquers Greece - Greece becomes part of the Roman empire. | ![]() | |||
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