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7th
Century
BC

621 BC: Draco's code of law - Athens.

c. 625 BC:
Arion at Corinth produces named dithyrambic choruses.

850 BC: (9th century BC date in question) Homer writes the Iliad and the Odyssey.

620 BC: Aesop writes his fables.

6th
Century
BC

600 BC: Coin currency introduced.

546 BC: Persian invasion and conquest of Greek territories through out Asia Minor.

c. 530 BC: Pythagoras establishes the Pythagorean Fraternity

507 BC Cleisthenes' democratic constitution.

600-570 BC: Cleisthenes, tyrant of Sicyon, transfers "tragic choruses" to Dionysus.

536-533 BC: Thespis puts on tragedy at festival of the Greater Dionysia in Athens

600 BC: Black attic style in pottery.

520 BC: Red-figured style in pottery developed

525 BC: Aeschylus born.

534 BC: Thespis, founder of Greek tragedy, victor at
Athenian drama festival.

5th
Century
BC

492 BC: Phrynicus' Capture of Miletus (Miletus was captured by the Persians in 494)

490 BC: First Persian invasion of Greece, the Battle of Marathon.

c.484 BC: Herodotus is born.

480: BC Second Persian invasion of Greece, Spartans are defeated at Thermopylae, Athens is occupied by the Persians. Acroplis destroyed. The Persians are finally defeated at Salamis.

c. 460 BC: Physician Hippocrates is born.

460 BC: Historian Thucydides born.

443 - 429 BC: Pericles is leader of Athens during the Golden Age.

431-404 Peloponnesian War (Athens and allies vs. Sparta and allies)

430 BC: Historian Xenophon born.

404: Athens loses Peloponnesian War to Sparta.

480-445 BC: The sculptor Myron at work in Athens.

456 BC: Temple of Zeus at Olympia completed.

447 BC: Ictinus and Callicrates design and begin building the Parthenon in Athens.

438 BC: Phidias' statue Athena Parthenos is dedicated.

432 BC: Phidias completes work on the Parthenon friezes.

499-496 BC: Aeschylus' first dramatic competition.

c. 496 BC:
Sophocles born.

485 BC: Euripides born.

484 BC: Aeschylus' first dramatic victory.

472 BC: Aeschylus' Persians

467 BC: Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes

468 BC: Aeschylus defeated by Sophocles in dramatic competition.

463? BC: Aeschylus' Suppliant Women

458 BC: Aeschylus' Oresteia (Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, Eumenides.)

456 BC: Aeschylus dies.

c. 450 BC: Aristophanes born

c. 445 BC: Sophocles' Ajax.

441 BC: Sophocles' Antigone.

438 BC: Euripides' Alcestis.

431 BC: Euripides' Medea.

c. 429 BC: Sophocles' Oedipus the King.

428: Euripides' Hippolytus.

423: Aristophanes' Clouds.

415: Euripides' Trojan Women.

406:
Euripides dies; Sophocles dies

405: Euripides' Bacchae.

401: Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus.

4th
Century
BC

336 - 323 BC: Alexander the Great's reign begins.

180 BC: Apollodorus History.

350 BC: Sculptor Praxiteles flourishes.

330 BC: Statues of Aeschylus, Euripides, and
Sophocles erected in Theatre of Dionysus
in Athens

399: Trial and death of Socrates.

385 BC: Plato begins teaching at Athens

c. 380's: Plato's Republic includes critique of Greek tragedy and comedy.

c. 330's: Aristotle's Poetics includes defense of Greek tragedy and comedy.