Background to Homer. GREEK TIMELINE Palace Empires: Minoan (Crete): c. 2700-1370 BCE Mycenaean (Peloponnesus): c. 1600-1100 BCE Decline and Fall: Trojan.
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GREEK TIMELINE
Palace Empires:Minoan (Crete): c. 2700-1370 BCE
Mycenaean (Peloponnesus): c. 1600-1100 BCE
Decline and Fall: Trojan War: c. 1100 BCE
raids of the “Sea Peoples”: 1000s BCEDark Age: c. 1000-750 BCEHomer: approx. 750 BCE?
Classical Period: 480-323 BCE
Philosophers: Socrates, Plato, AristotlePlaywrights: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, AristophanesTransformative Figures: Herodotus, Pericles, Hippocrates
Wars in the 400s: Greece against Persia, then Athens against SpartaAlexander the Great dies in 323 BCE
The world of the Odyssey recreated by Bibi Saint-Pol, based on Provensen map
The two figures are labeled ATHENAIA and POSEIDON. The inscription down the middle reads AMASIS MEPOIESEN
("Amasis made me"). 6th century BCE.
Menelaus reclaiming Helen from Troy
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