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Classical Age

500 BCE - 323 BCE. Persian wars, Athenian politics, Greek diplomacy, and the rise of Macedonia.

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Greek World / 386 BCE

Artaxerxes II lays down the law, returns Ionia to Persia, proclaims autonomy, and makes Sparta the guarantor of a twilight peace.

Classical Greece Inside this period

Greek World / 440 BCE

Discover Aspasia of Miletus, influential intellectual and companion of Pericles, a major female figure of Classical Athens in the 5th century BCE.

Classical Greece Inside this period

Ancient Greece / 450 BCE

In ancient Greece, Mousikê was far more than music. It united poetry, song, memory, education, civic life, and cosmic harmony.

Classical Greece Inside this period

Greek World / 370 BCE

Eurydice of Macedon, grandmother of Alexander the Great, reveals how royal women shaped the crises that made Macedonian power possible.

Classical Macedonia Inside this period

Greek World / 480 BCE

At Thermopylae, 480 BC, Leonidas and his allies halted the Persian advance: history, archaeology, and the memory of sacrifice.

Classical Greece Inside this period

Greek World / 333 BCE

Memnon of Rhodes, the Greek commander in Persian service, nearly turned Alexander's conquest into a trap by striking at his lifeline in the Aegean.

Macedonian Empire Inside this period

Greek World / 490 BCE

At Marathon in 490 BCE, Athens and Plataea repelled Darius's Persian army, turning a battlefield in Attica into a symbol of resistance.

Classical Greece Inside this period

Greek World / 330 BCE

Parmenion, the loyal Macedonian general, was executed without trial, sacrificed in the shadow of Alexander's growing imperial power.

Macedonian Empire Inside this period

Roman World / 509 BCE

Lucretia's tragedy became the political spark that Roman tradition placed at the birth of the Republic and the fall of the Tarquins.

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