1350                        1100                            850                            600                              350                100 B.C

Period

Minoan/Mycenean                         Geometric              Archaic         Classical               Hellenistic

Major events

Fall of Troy

Alphabetic writing

First Olympics

Persion war (490-479)

Athenian power

Peloponnesian war (431-404)

Alexander the Great

Intellectual developments

Thales' and Empedocles' "physics"

Pythagorian mathematics

Herodatus' and Thucydides' histories

Socratic rationalism

Plato

Aristotle

Euclid

Archimedes

Architecture

Parthenon

Theater at Epidaurus

Visual Arts

Vase figure paintings

Kouros sculptures

Riace Warriors

Poyclitus' Kanon and Doryphoros

Literature/Drama

Homer: Epic literature

Sappho: Lyric poetry

Aeschylus

Sophocles

Euripedes

Aristophanes