1. Ancient Greeks Mycenaean Age 2000 to 1100 BCE Iliad Odyssey
Hellenic Period 1100 to 3003 BCE
Hellenistic Age 300 BCE to 100 CE
Mycenae
Iliad
Odyssey
Homer

2. Troy
Crete
Minoan Civilization (King Minos)
Knossos
Dorians 1100 BCE
“Dark Age” BCE
Classical Age BCE
Polis
Athens
Sparta
Democracy
Monarchy
Aristocracy
Oligarchy
Tyranny
Solon
Constitution
Pisistratus
Cleisthenes BCE

3. Ekklesia
Boule
Deme
Ostracism
Persians
Darius I
Battle of Marathon 490 BCE
Xerxes
Battle of Thermopylae 480 BCE
Battle of Salamis
Delian League
Corinth

4. Pericles BCE
Peloponnesian War BCE
Macedonians
Battle of Chaeronea 338 BCE
Philip of Macedonia

5. Hellenic Culture Philosophy Socrates 470-399 BCE “Natural Law”
Anaximander
Hippocrates
Empiricism
Plato BCE

6. Aristotle BCE
Drama
Lyric Poetry

7. Sappho
Lesbos
Olympics
“Golden Mean”
Macedonians

8. Hellenistic Civilization
Macedonians
Philip of Macedonia
Alexander the Great (r BCE)
Alexander’s Empire:

9. Ptolemy
Ptolemaic Kingdom (Egypt)
Seleucid Kingdom (Persia)
Antigonid Kingdom (Macedonia)
“Mystery Religions” (Cults of: Isis, Mithra, Serapis)
Cynicism
Diogenes

10. Epicureanism
Epicurus
Stoicism
Zeno
Eratosthenes
Euclid, Elements of Geometry

11. Roman Republic Etruscans Carthage Senate Patricians Plebeians Consuls
Censors
Law of the 12 Tables 450 BCE
Tribunes
Punic War ( B.C.E.)
Hannibal

12. Proconsuls
Gracchi Brothers
Sulla
Julius Caesar (d. 44 BCE)
First Triumvirate: Crassus- Pompey- Julius Caesar
Second Triumvirate: Octavian (Augustus Caesar)- Lepidus- Mark Antony

13. Cleopatra
Octavian (Augustus Caesar) “Princeps”
Principate 27 BCE-14 CE
Pax Romana
Livy
Tiberius
Villa
Virgil BCE
The Aeneid
Marcus Aurelius CE
The Meditations