Timeline of ancient Greece explained

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.

Archaic Period (785–481 BC)

Classical Greece (480–323 BC)

Hellenistic Greece (323–30 BC)

See also

Notes and References

  1. Book: P. Christiaan Klieger. The Microstates of Europe: Designer Nations in a Post-Modern World. 29 November 2012. Lexington Books. 978-0-7391-7427-2. 165–.
  2. Web site: Одесские достопримечательности — раскопки греческого поселения. Igor. Kalinin. odessaguide.net.
  3. M.J. Traister and T.V. Shelov-Kovedyayev, “An inscribed conical clay object from Hermonassa”
  4. Web site: Wadi Caam: The Greeks in Tripolitania!. Temehu. 10 May 2012.
  5. Web site: Places: 265880 (Dianium/Hemeroskopeion) . Spann, P., R. Warner, R. Talbert, T. Elliott, S. Gillies . July 31, 2012. Pleiades.
  6. Strabo, Geography, translated by H.C. Hamilton, Esq., W. Falconer, M.A., Ed. (1903) Strab. 3.4.6
  7. Greek text: Strabo. ed. A. Meineke, Geographica. Leipzig: Teubner. (1877) Strab. 3.4.6
  8. Book: Smith, William . 1852 . Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (Abacaenum – Hytanis). 1. Boston. Little, Brown. 773.
  9. Encyclopedia: Hind. John. The Bosporan Kingdom. The Cambridge Ancient History. VI – The 4th Century BC. 476–511. Lewis. D.M.. Boardman. J.. Hornblower. S.. Ostwald. M.. CUP. Cambridge.
  10. Wilkes, J. J. The Illyrians, 1992,, page 114,"... in the early history of the colony settled in 385 BC on the island Pharos (Hvar) from the Aegean island Paros, famed for its marble. In traditional fashion they accepted the guidance of an oracle, ..."
  11. It is mentioned in the accounts of the famous Chinese explorer Zhang Qian in 130 BC and the numerous embassies that followed him into Central Asia. The country of Dayuan is generally accepted as city state relating to the Ferghana Valley, and its Greek city Alexandria Eschate (modern Khujand, Tajikistan)
  12. Life and Land Use on the Bahrain Islands: The Geoarchaeology of an Ancient Society By Curtis E. Larsen p. 50
  13. [Jona Lendering]
  14. The Greek historian Strabo too writes that: "they extended their empire even as far as the Seres (Chinese) and the Phryni". (Strabo, XI.XI.I)
  15. "The advance of the Greek to Pataliputra is recorded from the Indian side in the Yuga-purana", Tarn, p.145
  16. "The greatest city in India is that which is called Palimbothra, in the dominions of the Prasians ... Megasthenes informs us that this city stretched in the inhabited quarters to an extreme length on each side of eighty stadia, and that its breadth was fifteen stadia, and that a ditch encompassed it all round, which was six hundred feet in breadth and thirty cubits in depth, and that the wall was crowned with 570 towers and had four-and-sixty gates." Arr. Ind. 10. "Of Pataliputra and the Manners of the Indians.", quoting Megasthenes Text
  17. "The text of the Yuga Purana, as we have shown, gives an explicit clue to the period and nature of the invasion of Pataliputra in which the Indo-Greeks took part, for it says that the Pancalas and the Mathuras were the other powers who attacked Saketa and destroyed Pataliputra", Narain, The Indo-Greeks, p. 112.

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