Historical Timeline
Here is a timeline by which to appreciate when the events and great works of ancient
Israel and Greece occurred:
Ancient Israel
occupies Canaan
Moses (c. 1391 BC)
Greek tribes conquer the
Greek mainland and islands
Israelites fight the
Philistines
Trojan war and sack of Troy
(1194 - 1184 BC)
Homer (c. 850 BC)
Hesiod (c. 750 BC)
Jeremiah (626 BC)
Solon (594 BC) becomes
Archon of Athens
Cleisthenes introduces
democratic reforms (508/7 BC)
Ephialtes (462 BC)
Assyrians destroy
northern Israel
Greeks populate colonies
throughout the Mediterranean
Subjugation of Israel
"Great Age" of Greece
Pericles (c. 495 – 429 BC)
c. 457 rules Athens
Aeschylus (c. 525 – 455 BC
Euripides (c. 480 – 406 BC)
Thucydides (460 – c. 395 BC)
Herodotus (450 -- 420 BC)
Sophocles (497 – 406 BC)
Socrates (469 – 399 BC)
Xenophon ( c. 430 – 354 BC)
Peloponnesian War (431–404 BC)
Sparta prepares to destroy Athens
in league with other Greek cities
Peace of Nicias (421 BC)
Athens defeated at Syracuse (413 BC)
Rule of the Four Hundred (411 BC)
Surrender of Athens (404 BC)
"Thirty Tyrants" governs Athens
Second Athenian League (388--355 BC)
Plato ( c. 428 -- 328 BC)
Aristotle (c. 384 – 322 BCE)