CHRONOLOGY OF MAIN EVENTS

 

POLITICAL HISTORY

SCULPTURE

ARCHITECTURE

VASE PAINTING

DARK AGE (1200-750 B.C.)

 

 

Sub-Mycenaean

Migrations of DORIANS

 

 

PROGEOMETRIC

 

 

 

1000-900 B.C.

776 B.C. First Olympiad

 

 

 

750-700 B.C. Homer & Hesiod

Bronze & Ivory

 

GEOMETRIC WARE

 

Statuettes

 

900-725 B.C.

ARCHAIC AGE (750-480 B.C.)

 

 

 

Rise of POLIS

 

 

Orientalizing

Era of Colonization

 

 

725-675 B.C.

Tyrants & Lyric Poets

 

 

 

675-50 B.C. Lycurgan SPARTA

KOUROI & KORAI, 650 B.C.

 

Corinthian Ware

 

Lady of Auxerre, 630 B.C.

DORIC ORDER

 

 

Temple of Hera

 

 

 

OLYMPIA, 625 B.C.

 

 

594/3 B.C. SOLON at Athens

 

 

ATTIC BLACK

 

 

 

FIGURE WARE

561-510 B.C. PEISISTRATID

KOUROI & KORAI,

OLD ATHENA

580-530 B.C.

TYRANNY AT ATHENS

 

Acropolis 530-500 B.C.

TEMPLE Athens, 530 B.C.

Peisistratus (547-26 B.C.)

 

IONIC ORDER

ATTIC RED

Hippias (526-510 B.C.)

 

Temple of Hera

FIGURE WARE

 

 

Samos, 525 B.C.

530-430 B.C.

508-506 B.C. CLEISTHENES

 

 

 

DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION

 

PEDIMENTAL FIGURES, Aegina

 

490 B.C. Battle of MARATHON

 

Temple of APHAIA,

 

 

 

500 B.C.

 

490-75 B.C. THEMISTOCLES

 

 

 

480 B.C. Battle of SALAMIS

KRITIOS BOY &

 

 

 

RUNNING GIRL

 

 

Defeat of Xerxes'Invasion

Free Standing Sculpture

 

 

477-462 B.C. CIMON

SEVERE STYLE, 470-460 B.C.

Temple of Zeus

 

Rise of Athenian Empire

CONTEMPLATIVE ATHENA

OLYMPIA, 470 B.C.

 

462-429 B.C. PERICLES

CHATSWORTH APOLLO, 460 B.C.

 

 

Radical Democracy

Reliefs of OLYMPIA

 

 

First Peloponnesian War

 

 

 

(461-446 B.C.)

 

 

 

Peace of Callias, 449 B.C.

PANATHENAIC RELIEFS

PARTHENON, Athens

 

Thirty Years' Peace

 

Acropolis, 445-435 B.C.

447-438 B.C.

446 B.C

("Elgin Marables")

Temple of Poseidon

 

 

 

Souion, 440 B.C.

 

PELOPONNESIAN WAR

ATHENIAN STELAI RELIEFS

 

 

431-404 B.C.

Kerameikos, 430-390 B.C.

 

 

Plague, 429-425 B.C.

Reliefs of Athena Nike

TEMPLE OF ATHENA NIKE

 

Rise of Cleon

NIKE UNBINDING SANDAL

Acropolis, 427-24 B.C.

 

Victory at Pylos, 425 B.C.

 

 

 

 

 

ERECHTHEUM, Athens

 

 

 

Acropolis, 421-06 B.C.

 

Sicilian Expedition

 

 

 

415-413 B.C.

 

CORINTHIAN ORDER

 

 

 

c. 425-410 B.C.

 

415-404 B.C. ALCIBIADES

 

 

 

404 B.C. Fall of Athens

 

 

 

THE SPARTAN HEGEMONY

 

 

 

(404-371 B.C.)

 

 

 

Trial of Socrates, 399 B.C.