Greek History Ancient Philosophy Stages Archiac Classical Hellenistic

Greek History Ancient Philosophy

Stages • Archiac • Classical • Hellenistic

Archiac • Tribal Stage • Bronze Age

Transition • Dark Ages

Classical • City-State Develops • Persian Wars • Age of Pericles

City-State Develops • • • Re-discovery of Writing Cleisthenes' Reforms Homer (ca. 725) and Hesiod (ca. 700) Oligarchy vs. democracy; tyranny Hoplite military innovation (675) Draco and the Law (621)

Solon and reform (594) • • debt reduction (n. b. hektemoroi) abolition of debt slavery revision of law code extension of citizenship four-part social classification (by wealth) increased eligibility for Council and Assembly economic reforms

Peisistratus (560 -546 -527) • Uprising of the rural areas

Cleisthene (508) • • tribal reorganization (10 tribes; 139 demes) Council of 500 board of generals ("strategoi") ostracism

The Persian Wars, 499 -449 • The Ionian Revolt, 499 -493 • Darius's Assault, 490 – Marathon under Miltiades • the Lull, 490 -480 • Xerxes's Assault, 480 -479 – Thermopyle – Salamis – Plataea • Delian League and the Greek Offensive • Peace of Callias, 449 • Perversion of the League

The Age of Pericles, 461 -431 • The Empire • The Democracy – payment for public service – wider eligibility for office – increased use of the lot • The City • Culture • Peloponnesian War (431 -404)

Sicilian Campaign • • Defeat of Athens loss of fleet destruction of Long Walls and Piraeus walls loss of imperial holdings

Hellenistic • Philip II and the Rise of Macedon • Alexander the Great • Helenistic Empires