Classical Greece

Persian Wars
Darius I

 

Lydia
Ionia
Sardis

494 Melitus
490 Eretria
Marathon
Pheidippides (envoy to Sparta)

Xerxes

480 Thermopylae
479 Salamis
Greek Periodization
2000 - 1380 Minoan Civilization (Crete)
1600 - 1200 Mycenean Civilization
1200 - 700 Greek Dark Ages
700 - 479 Archaic Greece
480 - 338 Classical Greece
post - 338 Hellenistic Greece
Points of Reference

ca. 1500 eruption of Thera (Knossos destroyed, rebuilt)
ca. 1380 Mycenean conquest of Crete, eastern Mediterranean
ca. 1200 Trojan War
ca. 750 Homer
480-79 Persian invasion
Alexander the Great (r. 336 - 323 B.C.)

Greek Art
commissioned, patron / client
Acropolis
Parthenon (Temple of Athena "parthenos")
idealization
Aphrodite/Venus