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Greek Chronology
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Bronze Age/Aegean periods (Crete, Cycladic Islands, Greek mainland)
Crete (Minoan culture)
Early Minoan I – ca. 3100/3000-2700/2650 BCE
Early Minoan II – ca. 2700/2650-2150 BCE
Early Minoan III – ca. 2150-2050/2000 BCE
Middle Minoan IA – ca.2050/2000-2000/1950 BCE
Middle Minoan IB – ca. 2000/1950-1900/1850 BCE
Middle Minoan II – ca. 1900/1850-1750-1720 BCE
Middle Minoan III – ca. 1750/1720-1700/1675 BCE
Late Minoan IA – ca. 1675-1600 BCE (or ca.1550-1500 BCE)
Late Minoan IB – ca. 1600-1500 BCE (or ca. 1500-1450 BCE)
Late Minoan II – ca. 1500-1450 BCE (or ca.1450-1415 BCE)
Late Minoan IIIA – ca. 1450-1340 BCE (or ca. 1415-1340 BCE)
Late Minoan IIIB – ca. 1340-1190 BCE
Late Minoan IIIC – ca. 1190-1125/1100 BCE
Cyclades (Cycladic culture)
Early Cycladic I (Grotta-Pelos culture) – ca. 3100/3000-2650 BCE
Early Cycladic II (Keros-Syros culture) – ca.2650-2450/2400 BCE
Early Cycladic IIB or IIIA (Kastri Group culture) – ca.2450/2400-2200/2150 BCE
Early Cycladic III – ca. 2200/2150-2050/2000 BCE
Early Cycladic IIIB or
Middle Cycladic I (Phylakopi I culture) – ca.2050/2000-1900/1850 BCE
Mainland Greece (Helladic culture for Early and Middle periods, Mycenaean for Late periods)
Early Helladic I (Eutresis culture) – ca. 3100/3000-2650 BCE
Early Helladic IIA (Korakou culture) – ca. 2650-2200/2150 BCE
Early Helladic IIB (Lefkandi I culture) – ca.2450/2400-2200/2150 BCE
Early Helladic III (Tiryns culture) – ca.2200/2150-2050/2000 BCE
Middle Helladic I –ca.2050/2000-1900 BCE
Middle Helladic II – ca. 2000/1900-1800 BCE (or ca.1900-1700 BCE)
Middle Helladic III – ca. 1800-1700/1675 BCE (or ca.1700-1575/1550 BCE)
Late Helladic I-IIA - ca. 1675/1650-1490/1470 BCE
Late Helladic IIB-IIIA1 - ca. 1490/1470-1390/1370 BCE
Late Helladic IIIA2-B - ca. 1390/1370-1190 BCE
Late Helladic IIIC - ca. 1190-1050 BCE
Proto-Geometric Period (ca. 1000-900 BCE)
Proto-Geometric vase-painting: black bands, some compass-drawn circles
Geometric Period (ca. 900-700 BCE)
ca. 900-850 Early Geometric vase-painting: less black, more space, more circles
ca. 850-760 Middle Geometric vase-painting: meander patterns, pyxides & horse-handles
ca. 760-700 Late Geometric vase-painting: free use of human figures and animals, Dipylon amphorae
Orientalizing Period (ca. 725-650 BCE)
Proto-Corinthian pottery & Proto-Attic pottery (ca.710-610 BCE)
Black-figure starts in Corinth ca. 720, flourishes in Athens (Attic) by 600
Small metal objects – griffin heads (protomes), cauldrons, tripods, animals, etc
Archaic Period (ca. 650-480 BCE)
Early Archaic (ca.650-580 BCE)
Middle Archaic (ca. 580-535 BCE)
Late Archaic (ca. 535-480 BCE)
pottery: Corinthian style, Black-figure style in Athens , then Red-figure begins ca.520
sculpture: kouroi & korai
Classical Period
Early Classical/Severe (ca. 480-450 BCE)
High Classical (ca. 450-400 BCE)
Late Classical/4th century (ca. 400-330 BCE)
Periklean Building Program on the Akropolis
449-444 - Hephaisteion
447-438/432 - Parthenon (metopes, 447-443; frieze, 442-438; pediments, 438-432, dedicated 438)
437-432 - Propylaia by Mnesikles
427-424 - Temple of Athena Nike (balustrade from 409)
421/0, 409-406 - Erechtheion
Hellenistic Period
Early Hellenistic (ca.330-220 BCE)
High Hellenistic (ca. 220-150 BCE)
Late Hellenistic (c. 150- 31 BCE)
228 Dying Gaul & Wife, Galatian monument by Attalos I
159-138 Stoa of Attalos II, Athens (reconstructed AD 1952)
150-125 Altar of Zeus, Pergamum
Roman Period begins at different times throughout the Mediterranean.
