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c. 2000 B.C.: 1st speakers of Greek arrive in Greece |
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until c. 750 B.C.: Myths transmitted orally |
c. 1100: beginning of "Dark Ages" |
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c. 750: Homer (Iliad, Odyssey) |
c. 750-499: Archaic Age |
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c. 750-500: Homeric Hymns |
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c. 700: Hesiod (Theogony, Works and Days) |
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c. 650-550: Lyric poets: Mimnermus, Solon, Xenophanes, Sappho |
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c. 525-440: Pindar (lyric poet) |
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c. 525-456: Aeschylus (tragedian) |
499-479: Persian Wars |
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c. 496-406: Sophocles (tragedian) |
479-431: "Golden Age of Athens" |
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c. 485-406: Euripides (tragedian) |
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c. 480-420: Herodotus (historian) |
431-404: Peloponnesian War: Athens defeated |
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c. 450-385: Aristophanes (comic playwright) |
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c. 429-347: Plato (Symposium, Republic) |
399: Socrates executed |
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338: Philip of Macedon conquers Greece |
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334-323: Alexander the Great conquers the Persian Empire |
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c. 295 - ?: Apollonius of Rhodes (Argonautica) |
323-31 B.C.: Hellenistic Age |
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146: Greece becomes subject to Rome |
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70-19 B.C.: Vergil (Aeneid) |
27 B.C.: Augustus becomes first Roman emperor |
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43 B.C.-17 A.D.: Ovid (Metamorphoses) |
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c. 40 A.D.-125: Plutarch (biographer) |
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c. 100 A.D.: Apollodorus (Bibliotheca) |
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c. 120 A.D.-?: Lucian (satiric writer) |
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c. 123 A.D.-?: Apuleius (Metamorphoses) |
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324 A.D.: Constantine becomes first Christian emperor |
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