NOTES: All dates are approximate. Individuals are placed at their time of flourishing, which is assumed to be about forty years after their birth; their dates of birth and death, where possible, are given in the index. Dates of rulers are for their reigns. A question mark before an entry indicates a date given only by Greek tradition.
B.C. 9000: |
Neolithic Age in Crete |
3400-3000: |
Early Minoan, Helladic, Cycladic, I |
3400-2100: |
Neolithic Age in Thessaly |
3400-1200: |
Bronze Age in Crete |
3000-2600: |
Early Minoan, Helladic, Cycladic, II |
3000: |
Copper mined in Cyprus |
2870: |
First known settlement at Troy |
2600-2350: |
Early Minoan, Helladic, Cycladic, III |
2350-2100: |
Middle Minoan, Helladic, Cycladic, I |
2200-1200: |
Bronze Age in Cyprus |
2100-1950: |
Middle Minoan, Helladic, Cycladic, II; first series of Cretan palaces |
2100-1600: |
Chalcolithic Age in Thessaly |
1950-1600: |
Middle Minoan, Helladic, Cycladic, III |
1900: |
Destruction of first series of Cretan palaces |
1600-1500: |
Late Minoan, Helladic (Mycenaean), Cycladic, I; second series of Cretan palaces |
1600-1200: |
Bronze Age in Thessaly |
1582: |
? Foundation of Athens by Cecrops |
1500-1400: |
Late Minoan, Helladic (Mycenaean), Cycladic, II |
1450-1400: |
Destruction of second series of Cretan palaces |
1433: |
? Deucalion and the Flood |
1400-1200: |
Late Minoan, Helladic (Mycenaean), Cycladic, III; palaces of Tiryns and Mycenae |
1313: |
? Foundation of Thebes by Cadmus |
1300-1100: |
Age of Achaean domination in Greece |
1283: |
? Coming of Pelops into Elis |
1261-1209: |
? Heracles |
1250: |
Theseus at Athens; Oedipus at Thebes; Minos and Daedalus at Cnossus |
1250-1183: |
“Sixth city” of Troy; age of the Homeric heroes |
1225: |
? Voyage of the Argonauts |
1213: |
? War of the Seven against Thebes |
1200: |
? Accession of Agamemnon |
1192-1183: |
? Siege of Troy |
1176: |
? Accession of Orestes |
1104: |
? Dorian invasion of Greece |