Ancient Greeks• Mycenaean Age 2000

to 1100 BCE• Hellenic Period 1100

to 3003 BCE• Hellenistic Age 300

BCE to 100 CE• Mycenae

• Iliad• Odyssey• Homer

• Troy• Crete• Minoan Civilization

(King Minos)• Knossos• Dorians 1100 BCE• “Dark Age” 1100-800

BCE• Classical Age 500-

325 BCE• Polis• Athens

• Sparta• Democracy• Monarchy• Aristocracy• Oligarchy• Tyranny• Solon• Constitution• Pisistratus• Cleisthenes 508-494

BCE

• Ekklesia• Boule• Deme• Ostracism

• Persians• Darius I• Battle of Marathon

490 BCE• Xerxes• Battle of Thermopylae

480 BCE• Battle of Salamis• Delian League• Corinth

• Pericles 495-429 BCE • Peloponnesian War 431-404 BCE

• Macedonians• Battle of Chaeronea

338 BCE• Philip of Macedonia

Hellenic Culture• Philosophy• Socrates 470-399

BCE

• “Natural Law”• Anaximander• Hippocrates• Empiricism• Plato 427-347 BCE

• Aristotle 384-322 BCE

• Drama• Lyric Poetry

• Sappho • Lesbos• Olympics• “Golden Mean”• Macedonians

Hellenistic Civilization• Hellenistic• Macedonians• Philip of Macedonia• Alexander the Great

(r. 336-323 BCE)

• Alexander’s Empire:

• Ptolemy• Ptolemaic Kingdom

(Egypt)• Seleucid Kingdom

(Persia)• Antigonid Kingdom

(Macedonia)• “Mystery Religions”

(Cults of: Isis, Mithra, Serapis)

• Cynicism• Diogenes

• Epicureanism• Epicurus• Stoicism• Zeno

• Eratosthenes• Euclid, Elements of

Geometry

Roman Republic

• Etruscans• Carthage• Senate• Patricians• Plebeians• Consuls• Censors• Law of the 12 Tables

450 BCE

• Tribunes• Punic War (264-146

B.C.E.)• Hannibal

• Proconsuls• Gracchi Brothers• Sulla• Julius Caesar (d. 44

BCE)

• First Triumvirate: Crassus- Pompey- Julius Caesar

• Second Triumvirate: Octavian (Augustus Caesar)- Lepidus- Mark Antony

• Cleopatra • Octavian (Augustus Caesar) “Princeps”

• Principate 27 BCE-14 CE• Pax Romana• Livy• Tiberius• Villa• Virgil 70-19 BCE• The Aeneid• Marcus Aurelius 161-180

CE• The Meditations