Literature: Timetable of Events
(All dates are BCE.) |
|
| by 750 |
Phoenician script was adapted to create Greek alphabet throughout the Greek world. |
| c. 700 |
Homer and Hesiod active. |
| 676–673 |
Terpander won a competition at the Carnea. |
| c. 632–629 |
Stesichorus was born. |
| c. 620 |
Alcaeus was born. |
| c. 612 |
Sappho was born. |
| c. 570 |
Anacreon was born. |
| c. 557/556 |
Simonides was born. |
| c. 556–553 |
Stesichorus died. |
| c. 550 |
Hecateus of Miletus was born. |
| 545 |
Anaximander died. |
| 534 |
First tragedy performed at the City Dionysia in Athens. |
| 525/524 |
Aeschylus was born. |
| c. 520 |
Melanippides was born. |
| 518 |
Pindar was born. |
| 498 |
Earliest surviving poem of Pindar. |
| c. 496 |
Sophocles was born. |
| 490 |
Hellanicus was born. |
| 487 |
First comedies were performed at the City Dionysia at Athens (contest won by Chionides). |
| c. 485 |
Euripides was born. |
| 484 |
First victory of Aeschylus. Herodotus was born. |
| 476 |
Pindar's first Olympian Ode and Bacchylides' fifth Ode for the victory of Hieron at Olympia. |
| 472 |
Aeschylus' tragedy, the Persians. |
| 470 |
Pindar's first Pythian Ode. |
| 468 |
Sophocles' first tragic victory (over Aeschylus). |
| 468/467 |
Simonides died. |
| 467 |
Seven against Thebes of Aeschylus. |
| c. 460–455 |
Thucydides was born. |
| 459 |
Lysias was born. |
| 458 |
Aeschylus' trilogy Oresteia. |
| c.457 |
Aristophanes was born. |
| 456/455 |
Aeschylus died. |
| 455 |
First production at the City Dionysia by Euripides. |
| c.450 |
Bacchylides died. Timotheus was born. |
| 450 |
Victory by Crates at the City Dionysia. |
| c. 447 |
Agathon was born. |
| 446 |
Pindar's last ode. Callias won first prize at the City Dionysia. |
| c. 446 |
Pindar died. |
| 441 |
Euripides' first victory with a tragic play. |
| c. 441 |
Antigone of Sophocles. |
| 438 |
Alcestis of Euripides. |
| 436 |
Isocrates was born. |
| 435 |
Victory by Hermippus at the City Dionysia. |
| 435/434 |
Philoxenus of Cythera was born. |
| 431 |
Euripides' Medea. Euphorion beat Sophocles and Euripides. |
| c. 430 |
Philistus was born. |
| c. 430/428 |
Children of Heracles of Euripides. |
| 429 |
First play of Eupolis was produced. |
| 428 |
Hippolytus of Euripides (won first prize). |
| c. 428/427 |
Xenophon was born. |
| 427 |
Banqueters of Aristophanes. |
| 426 |
Babylonians of Aristophanes. |
| c. 426/425 |
Andromache of Euripides. |
| 425 |
Acharnians of Aristophanes. |
| 424 |
Knights of Aristophanes. Aristomenes won first prize at the City Dionysia. |
| c. 424 |
Hecuba of Euripides. |
| 423 |
Clouds of Aristophanes. |
| 422 |
Wasps of Aristophanes. |
| c. 422 |
Suppliant Women of Euripides. Ion died. |
| 421 |
Peace of Aristophanes. |
| 420 |
Herodotus died. |
| c. 420 |
Isaeus was born. |
| c. 417 |
Electra of Euripides. Madness of Heracles of Euripides. |
| 416 |
Agathon's first victory at the Lenaea. |
| 415 |
Trojan Women of Euripides. |
| 414 |
Birds of Aristophanes. Amphiaraus of Aristophanes. |
| c. 414/413 |
Iphigeneia in Tauris of Euripides. |
| 412 |
Helen of Euripides. |
| 411 |
Lysistrata and Thesmophoriazusae of Aristophanes. |
| c. 410 |
Ion of Euripides. |
| 409 |
Philoctetes of Sophocles. |
| c. 409 |
Phoenician Women of Euripides. |
| 408 |
Orestes of Euripides. Wealth of Aristophanes. |
| c. 406 |
Euripides died. |
| c. 406/405 |
Sophocles died. |
| 405 |
Frogs of Aristophanes. Hellanicus died. Bacchae of Euripides. |
| 402/401 |
Victory by Telestes at Athens. |
| 401 |
Oedipus at Colonus of Sophocles produced posthumously. |
| c. 401/400 |
Agathon died. |
| c. 400/399 |
Thucydides died. |
| 395 |
Thucydides' History published. |
| c.392—c.388 |
Last plays of Aristophanes. |
| c. 392 |
Isocrates opened a school for rhetoric at Athens. |
| 391/390 |
Against the Sophists of Isocrates. |
| c. 388 |
Spartan Consitution of Xenophon. |
| c. 385 |
Aristophanes died. |
| 380 |
Lysias died. |
| c. 380 |
On Horsemanship of Xenophon. |
| 380/379 |
Philoxenus of Cythera died. |
| c. 377 |
Theopompus was born. |
| c. 375 |
Alexis was born. |
| c. 370 |
Callisthenes was born. |
| c. 364 |
Hieronymus was born. |
| c. 360 |
Timotheus died. |
| 356 |
Philistus died. |
| c. 356 |
Timaeus was born. |
| 355 |
On the Peace of Isocrates. |
| c. 354 |
Xenophon died. |
| 353 |
Antidosis of Isocrates. |
| c. 350 |
Megasthenes was born. Isaeus died. |
| 346 |
Philippus of Isocrates. |
| 342/341 |
Menander was born. |
| c. 340 |
Douris of Samos was born. |
| 339 |
Panathenaicus of Isocrates. |
| 338 |
Isocrates died. |
| 327 |
First victory at the Dionysia by Philemon. Callisthenes was executed by Alexander. |
| c. 325 |
Zenodotus was born. |
| 321 |
Orge of Menander. |
| 320 |
Theopompus died. |
| c. 320 |
Lycophron was born. |
| 317/316 |
Dyscolus of Menander performed (won first prize). |
| c. 315 |
Alexander Aetolus and Aratus were born. |
| c. 300 |
Hermesianax, Theocritus and Herodas were born. |
| c. 295 |
Apollonius Rhodius was born. |
| 290 |
Megasthenes died. |
| 290/289 |
Menander died (or 293/292). |
| c. 280 |
Eratosthenes was born. |
| c. 285 |
Zenodotus was first head of the Alexandria Library. |
| c. 275 |
Alexis died. Rhianus was born. |
| 270 |
Douris of Samos died. |
| c. 270 |
Euphorion died. |
| 260 |
Hieronymus of Cardia died, age 104. Timaeus died, age 96. |
| c. 260 |
Theocritus died. |
| 250 |
Herodas died. |
| c. 240 |
Callimachus died. |
| 240/239 |
Aratus died. |
| 215 |
Apollonius Rhodius died. |
| c. 215 |
Aristarchus of Samos was born. |
| c. 200 |
Aristophanes of Byzantium became head of the Alexandria Library. |
| c. 194 |
Eratosthenes died. |
| 167 |
Polybius the historian arrived in Rome. |
| 145 |
Aristarchus of Samos and other intellectuals fled from Alexandria on the accession of Ptolemy VIII. |
| c. 143 |
Aristarchus of Samos died. |