GREEK CHRONOLOGY

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3000-2000 B.C.

Early Helladic Period

2000 -1600

Middle Helladic Period

1600-1200

Late Helladic Period

1100-900
c. 1000
Dark Age
building, burial at Lefkandi on Euboea

900-700
c. 775
Geometric Period
writing begins again
temple at Thermon; bronze statuettes
vase-painting with geometric designs; figures from c. 750 B.C.
700-480
 
600-490
Archaic Period
beginning of Doric, Ionic orders in architecture
development of kouros, kore sculptures
Attic pottery evolves to black figure, c. 520 red figure

480-450

c. 460
Early Classical Period
transition in sculpture to Classical types
temple of Zeus at Olympia
450-430
449-432
High Classical Period
Parthenon

430-323

323
Late Classical Period
sculptors Praxiteles, Skopas, Lysippos
death of Alexander the Great

323-146
146
Hellenistic Period
Rome conquers Corinth, takes over Greece


Last updated: 25 March 2002

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