Ancient
After Discoveries of Heinrich Schliemann and Sir Arthur Evans
(Linear
A)
(loss of literacy)
2000 MINOAN
-----------1400
1150------------Dark Ages----------800
B.C.______________________________Troy__________________________________
1600---MYCENAEAN------1200 Homer??
(Linear B)
End of Athenian
Age of Colonization--------
Democracy
750_____________________500______________________________350_________________
---------The
Classical Age------------- ----Hellenistic---------→
Rise of Greek
city-states 499-480: Defeat of Persians Alexander the Great
Homeric epics written
down
431-404: Peloponnesian Wars
Pericles
and Athenian Democracy
Note : if you print this timeline out
for your notes, include below
all of the many accomplishments of the classical Age (the brief period
“between the wars” when so much was
accomplished in the arts). You
might also try to fit onto the timeline the Art History periods (archaic→ classical→hellenistic).