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This is a timeline of ancient Greece from its emergence around 800 BC to its subjection to the Roman Empire in 146 BC. For earlier times, see Greek Dark Ages, Aegean civilizations and Mycenaean Greece. For later times see Roman Greece, Byzantine Empire and Ottoman Greece. For modern Greece after 1820, see Timeline of modern Greek history.
Hellenic historiography (or Greek historiography) involves efforts made by Greeks to track and record historical events. By the 5th century BC, it became an integral part of ancient Greek literature and held a prestigious place in later Roman historiography and Byzantine literature .
The date used as the end of the ancient era is arbitrary. The transition period from Classical Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages is known as Late Antiquity.Late Antiquity is a periodization used by historians to describe the transitional centuries from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages, in both mainland Europe and the Mediterranean world: generally from the end of the Roman Empire's ...
The Greek Dark Ages (c. 1100 – c. 800 BC) refers to the period of Greek history from the presumed Dorian invasion and end of the Mycenaean civilization in the 11th century BC to the rise of the first Greek city-states in the 9th century BC and the epics of Homer and earliest writings in the Greek alphabet in the 8th century BC.
Much of the cultural heritage of classical antiquity was lost as a consequence of the loss of books in late antiquity, which in the west was the period from the late third to late sixth century CE. A major part of antique Greek [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and Latin literature was lost during this period, and only a small number of works remained extant to the ...
Greek: Plutarch: Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans; Josephus: The Jewish War, Antiquities of the Jews, Against Apion; The books of the New Testament of the Christian Bible and the Didache; Latin: see Classical Latin. Tacitus: Germania; Ovid: Metamorphoses; also Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto written during his exile; Pliny the Elder: Natural ...
The Parthenon, in Athens, a temple to Athena. Classical Greece was a period of around 200 years (the 5th and 4th centuries BC) in ancient Greece, [1] marked by much of the eastern Aegean and northern regions of Greek culture (such as Ionia and Macedonia) gaining increased autonomy from the Persian Empire; the peak flourishing of democratic Athens; the First and Second Peloponnesian Wars; the ...
A Literary History of Greece. (Translated by Douglas Garman). Chicago: Aldine Pub. Gutzwiller, Kathryn (2007). A Guide to Hellenistic Literature. Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-631-23322-0. Hadas, Moses (1950). A History of Greek Literature. New York, NY: Columbia University Press. Lesky, Albin (1966). A History of Greek Literature. Translated by James ...