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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.
The history of Sparta describes the history of the ancient Doric Greek city-state known as Sparta from its beginning in the legendary period to its incorporation into the Achaean League under the late Roman Republic, as Allied State, in 146 BC, a period of roughly 1000 years.
The Roman conquest of Ancient Greece in the 2nd century BC. The Greek peninsula fell to the Roman Republic during the Battle of Corinth (146 BC), when Macedonia became a Roman province. Meanwhile, southern Greece also came under Roman hegemony, but some key Greek poleis remained partly autonomous and avoided direct Roman taxation.
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 basic unit of politics in Ancient Greece was the polis (Ancient Greek: πόλις), sometimes translated as "city-state". The term lends itself to the modern English word "politics", which literally means "the things of the polis". At least in theory, each polis was politically independent.
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 ...
People in ancient Greece Ancient Greeks. Seven Sages of Greece. Cleobulus of Lindos; Solon of Athens; Chilon of Sparta; Bias of Priene; Thales of Miletus; Pittacus of Mytilene (c. 640 – 568 BC) Periander of Corinth (fl. 627 BC) Ancient Greek tribes; Ancient Greek personal names; Sexuality in ancient Greece Adultery in Classical Athens ...
Ancient Greece (750 [citation needed] –146 BC, Archaic period to the Roman conquest) Archaic Greece (800–500 BC) Classical Greece (ca. 500–323 BC) Hellenistic period (323–146 BC) Roman Greece (146 BC–640 AD) Medieval Greece. Byzantine Greece (330–1453/60 AD, from the establishment of the Byzantine Empire to the Ottoman conquest)