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  Ancient Greece
 Mycenae dominant c. -1300
 
 Dorian Greeks crush Mycenae c. -1150
 
 Olympic games -776
 
 Homer is written down c. -750
 
 Wrestling in Olympic games c. -704
 
 Phoenician and Greek Sicily c. -700
 
 Boxing in Olympic games -688
 
 State officials consult oracle at Delphi c. -650
 
 Greek pillars take shape c. -650
 
 Sparta enslaves neighbours c. -650
 
 Council on hill in Athens c. -630
 
 Dancing at heart of Greek theatre c. -600
 
 Dionysiac frenzies c. -600
 
 Anaximander on how it all began c. -570
 
 Black-figure style in Greek vases c. -550
 
 Beehives in Greece c. -550
 
 Greeks develop Babylonian zodiac c. -550
 
 Peloponnesian League run by Sparta c. -550
 
 Hoplites can do you grievous bodily harm c. -550
 
 Beware the Greek phalanx c. -550
 
 Citizen armies in Greece c. -550
 
 Thespis wins drama prize -534
 
 Greek temples in Paestum c. -530 Paestum, Basilica
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 Pythagoras in Italy c. -529
 
 Cleisthenes reforms Athens -508
 
 Greek hoplites wear fitted bronze helmets c. -500 Corinthian helmet
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 More games in Greece c. -500
 
 Inebriated dancers celebrate grape harvest c. -500
 
 Red-figure style in Greek vases c. -500 Greek vase, red-figure style
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 Greeks discover octave c. -500
 
 Third bank of oars for Greek trireme c. -500
 
 Persians army lands at Marathon -490
 
 Pheidippides runs to Sparta -490
 
 Athenians invent ostracism -487
 
 Aeschylus wins drama prize -484
 
 Themistocles and the fleet -483
 
 Persians return in force -481
 
 Greek city-states combine -481
 
 Battle of Thermopylae -480
 
 Persians destroy Athens -480
 
 Persians defeated at Salamis -480
 
 Persians defeated at Plataea -479
 
 Delian League led by Athens -478
 
 Delphi charioteer in bronze -477