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Classical Period

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History of Greece
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Pre-Hellenic Greece
Prehistory of Greece
-3200 Cycladic civilization
-2700 Minoan civilization
-1550 Mycenaean civilization
Ancient Greece
-1200 Dark Ages
-800 Archaic
-510 Classical period
-323 Hellenistic
-146 Roman Greece
Medieval Greece (C)
330 Byzantine Empire
1202 Fourth Crusade
1453 Ottoman Greece
Modern Greece
1799 Republic of the Seven Islands
1822 Revolutionary War
1832 Kingdom of Greece
1936 Plan of August 4
1941 Occupation
1946 Civil War
1967 Dictatorship of the colonels
1974 Hellenic Republic
The Parthenon.

Period of the chronology of the history of ancient Greece , located between the archaic and Hellenistic period. It corresponds to the bulk of the fifth and fourth centuries BC. AD , that is to say from the Athenian victory at Salamis against the Persians at -480 until the death of Alexander the Great in -323. And now denotes the period during which the values and basic institutions of the Greek world found their full expression and came to maturity.

The expression of "classical period" is a name after the period at which time it returns, even if the Greeks were aware that the world that existed before the era of Alexander the Great and the expansion of the Greek world, could be considered a "golden age". Moreover, there is no clean break between the different "eras" of Greek antiquity.


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