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| c. 650 BC |
| | | The inhabitants of Messenia revolt against Spartan rule and are reduced, in retaliation, to the status of serfs or helots | |
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| c. 630 BC |
| | | The Areopagus, named from the hill on Athens where it meets, is the council through which the nobles keep power in their own hands | |
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| c. 625 BC |
| | | Hereditary aristocrats hold nearly all political power and own most of the land in Attica | |
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| c. 600 BC |
| | | The choros, originally danced in a circle by temple virgins, is the centrepiece of the developing Greek theatre | |
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| c. 600 BC |
| | | Frenzied dances, in honour of the god Dionysus, become part of Greek theatre - deriving probably from the northeast, in Thrace | |
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| c. 600 BC |
| | | The free smallholding peasants of Attica fall increasingly into debt, compelled to pay a sixth of all their produce to a creditor | |
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| 594 BC |
| | | Solon is elected archon in Athens, immediately cancelling the debts of the peasants of Attica and making it illegal to enslave a debtor | |
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| 594 BC |
| | | Solon makes every Athenian citizen a member of the ecclesia, responsible for the election of archons, thus laying the first cornerstone of Athenian democracy | |
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| 585 BC |
| | | Thales of Miletus, traditionally the first philosopher, is credited with the prediction of a solar eclipse | |
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| 560 BC |
| | | Peisistratos seizes power in Athens and rules as a benevolent dictator for more than thirty years | |
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