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Greek literature timeline
c. 750 BC
The Homeric texts, the
Iliad
and the
Odyssey
, are written down - probably in Ionia
c. 500 BC
Parmenides is the first pure philosopher, using logic as a philosophical tool in his poem
Nature
484 BC
Aeschylus wins the prize for tragedy at the City Dionysia in Athens
468 BC
Sophocles wins the prize for tragedy in Athens, defeating Aeschylus in the competition
c. 460 BC
Herodotus, the 'father of history', writes his account of the Greco-Persian Wars from a vantage point in Asia Minor
454 BC
Euripides enters the drama contest at the City Dionysia in Athens for the first time
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