The Tragic Hero in Greek Drama: Greek Culture

Map of ancient Greece and related Aegean sites; those areas with separate entries in this dictionary are distinguished by Cross-reference type.  Oxford Art Online

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• 2900 BC 2900-2000 BC: The Bronze Age when Early Aegean cultures start to emerge

• 2500 BC The great Minoan civilization

• 1200 BC The Trojan War and the destruction of Troy (Ilium)

• 1050 BC 1050-750 BC: The Dark Ages of Greece and the fall of the Mycenean culture

• 850 BC 850 - 700 BC: Development of the first Greek Alphabet

• 776 BC The First Olympic Games are staged

• 750 BC 750 -700 BC: Homer writes the Iliad and the Odyssey

• 730 BC 730-710 BC - the First Messenian War and the Spartans conquer southwest Peloponnesia

• 650 BC The Rise of the Greek tyrants

• 621 BC Draco's code of law is introduced

• 600 BC Greek Coin currency introduced

• 500 BC 500-323 BC - The Greek Classical Period

• 505 BC Cleisthenes introduces democracy in Athens

• 490 BC Greek / Persian Wars led by Xerxes

• 468 BC Sophocles writes his first tragedy

• 461 BC 461-446 BC: The Peloponnesian Wars begins between Sparta and Athens

• 449 BC 449 -432: Construction of the Parthenon and the Acropolis in Athens

• 441 BC Euripides writes his first tragedy

• 443 BC 443 - 429 BC Pericles leads Athens

• 430 BC Outbreak of Bubonic Plague in Athens

• 431 BC Second of the Peloponnesian Wars between Sparta and Athens

• 420 BC 420 - 410: Construction of Temple of Athena Nike

• 399 BC Socrates is executed for his opposition to the Thirty Tyrants

• 386 BC Plato founds the Academy

• 384 BC Aristotle is born

• 359 BC Philip II becomes the king of the Greeks

• 356 BC Alexander the Great, son of King Philip II, is born

• 333 BC Alexander the Great defeats the Persians at Issus and is given Egypt by the Persian Satrap where he builds a capital at Alexandria and founds the great library

• 323 BC Alexander the Great dies at Babylon

• 323 BC 323 -31 BC: The Hellenistic Period

• 224 BC Earthquake destroys the Colossus of Rhodes

• 200 BC 200 - 196 BC: First Roman victory over Greece

• 197 BC King Philip V of Greece loses to Roman forces at Kynoskephalai

• 86 BC The Roman General Sulla captures Athens

• 33 AD Crucifixion of Jesus and the origin of Christianity

• 267 AD The Goths sack Athens, Sparta, and Corinth

• 286 AD The Roman Emperor Diocletian divides the Roman empire in two forming modern Greece (the Byzantine Empire)
  

• 641 AD The Slavs overrun Greece