Ancient Greece Dates

Ancient Greece Dates

1. Battle of Salamis

   • Battle of Thermopylae
     • Battle of Marathon
       • Athens Takes Out Hippias
         • 510 BCE
         • Last tyrant
       • Athens and Greek allies (not Sparta) vs. Persia
         • Persia had the advantage
           • 2 : 1
           • Persia had 600 ships
         • "Greece" won
           • Used Double - Envelopment Technique
       • 490 BCE
         • 1st battle in Persian Wars
     • Leonidas
       • Spartan oligarch
       • Greek general
     • Persia had the advantage
       • Persia won
         • Surrounded Greeks - found another pass around them
       • Estimated 20 : 1, 15 : 1 or 10 : 1
     • 480 BCE
   • Battle of Plataea
     • Golden Age of Athens
       • Peloponnesian War
         • Athens vs. Sparta
         • Corfu - Corinthian colony
           • Corfu wants to become independent and democratic
             • Athens takes this as an invitation to conquer Corfu and agrees to help
               • Sparta backs Corinth
                 • Corinth & Corfu stand back and let Athens & Sparta fight for them
       • Delian League
         • City-states paid Athens to protect them
           • Athens got so much $ they started spending it on rebuilding & beautifying city
       • 460 - 429 BCE
       • Pericles
         • Aristocrat
           • Took people's point of view on things in voting and distanced himself from aristocrats
             • Golden Age started when he became Strategoi
     • 479 BCE
       • Last Persian war
     • Athens & Plataea are allies
       • Persia attacks Plataea - Athens will come
         • Sparta is scared Persia will attack them
           • Spartan troops resting in Plataea when Persia arrives
             • Sparta wins with 8,000 soldiers
   • 480 BCE
     • One month after Battle of Thermopylae
   • Persia burns Athens
     • Athens hides in Strait of Salamis before Persia arrives
       • Attacks Persia when they come down Strait looking for Athenians
         • Athens wins
           • Athens loses 40 ships, Persia loses 300