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Era 5 of 12 · from 800 to 264 BC

Ancient Greece

Between 2800 and about 2300 years ago, in Greece and along the coasts of the Mediterranean, hundreds of independent cities flourished. Democracy was born in Athens, while Sparta trained its citizens to be soldiers. The Greeks joined forces to drive back the Persians, but then ended up fighting one another. This age produced philosophers, scientists, poets and artists we still study at school today. With Alexander the Great, Greek culture reached as far as Egypt and India.

In Italian schools it is usually studied in primary year 5

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The 25 events, in time order

  1. politicsThe first Greek city-statesabout 800 BC
  2. daily lifeThe ancient Olympic Gamesabout 776 BC
  3. science and technologyThe Greek alphabetabout 750 BC
  4. daily lifeLife in Spartaabout 700 BC
  5. peopleSappho, the poet of Lesbosabout 600 BC
  6. politicsThe reforms of Solonabout 594 BC
  7. peopleThales studies natureabout 585 BC
  8. peoplePythagoras at Crotonabout 530 BC
  9. politicsCleisthenes and democracyabout 508 BC
  10. politicsThe Battle of Marathon490 BC
  11. politicsThe Battle of Thermopylae480 BC
  12. artThe theatre of Aeschylus472 BC
  13. peopleThe Age of Pericles461–429 BC
  14. artThe Parthenon447–432 BC
  15. politicsThe Peloponnesian War431–404 BC
  16. peopleHerodotus writes the Historiesabout 430 BC
  17. science and technologyHippocrates and medicineabout 400 BC
  18. peopleSocrates is condemned399 BC
  19. peoplePlato's Academyabout 387 BC
  20. peopleAristotle founds the Lyceumabout 335 BC
  21. politicsThe conquests of Alexander334–323 BC
  22. science and technologyEuclid writes the Elementsabout 300 BC
  23. artThe Library of Alexandriaabout 295 BC
  24. science and technologyArchimedes of Syracuseabout 250 BC
  25. science and technologyThe Antikythera mechanismabout 100 BC
The first Greek city-states: Mainland Greece and the Aegean islandsThe ancient Olympic Games: Olympia, Peloponnese (Greece)The Greek alphabet: Euboea and Greek colonies (Greece and Italy)Life in Sparta: Sparta, Peloponnese (Greece)Sappho, the poet of Lesbos: Mytilene, island of Lesbos (Greece)The reforms of Solon: Athens (Greece)Thales studies nature: Miletus, Ionia (now Turkey)Pythagoras at Croton: Croton (Crotone), Calabria (Italy)Cleisthenes and democracy: Athens (Greece)The Battle of Marathon: Marathon, Attica (Greece)The Battle of Thermopylae: Pass of Thermopylae (Greece)The theatre of Aeschylus: Theatre of Dionysus, Athens (Greece)The Age of Pericles: Athens (Greece)The Parthenon: Acropolis of Athens (Greece)The Peloponnesian War: Greece (Athens against Sparta)Herodotus writes the Histories: Halicarnassus (now Bodrum, Turkey) and AthensHippocrates and medicine: Island of Kos (Greece)Socrates is condemned: Agora of Athens (Greece)Plato's Academy: Athens (Greece)Aristotle founds the Lyceum: Athens (Greece)The conquests of Alexander: From Macedonia (Pella) to IndiaEuclid writes the Elements: Alexandria, EgyptThe Library of Alexandria: Alexandria, EgyptArchimedes of Syracuse: Syracuse, Sicily (Italy)The Antikythera mechanism: Island of Antikythera (Greece)
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Did you know?

  • The athletes at Olympia competed without any clothes on, and married women were not even allowed to watch the games.
  • In Athens, to send a politician thought to be dangerous away for ten years, citizens wrote his name on a piece of broken pottery called an ‘ostrakon’: that is where the word ‘ostracism’ comes from.
  • The Parthenon stayed almost undamaged for more than two thousand years: it was badly damaged only in 1687, when a cannonball set off the gunpowder stored inside it.

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Quiz: Ancient Greece
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