Time Line Greek Roman

Time Line Greek Roman

-2,000	Full European Bronze Age
-1,200	Dorians conquer Peloponnesos with iron weapons
-1,200	Start of use or iron
-900	Homeros, poet.
-800	Earth thought of as spherical surface (Eratosthenes)
-800	Full Iron Age in Europe
-700	Hesiodos, poet, Boeotia, Greece
-540	Herakleitos, philosopher, Ephese, Anatolia
-539	Persians (Cyrus) defeat Assyrians, conquer both Babylon and Palestine. Jews sent back to Palestine. Expansion of Persia to an unprecedented empire
-532	Pythagoras, Samos, moved in his 48th year to Croton (Southern Italy)
-500	Leukippus, philosopher, Miletus (now Turkey)
-500	Anaxagoras, philosopher, Clazomenae (now Turkey)
-490	Parmenides, philosopher, Elea, South Italy
-490	Empedokles, philosopher, Sicily-Greece
-470	Socrates
-460	Demokritos, philosopher
-428	Plato, philosopher, Athens
-367	Aristoteles, philosopher, Stagira, Chalcidice
-341	Epicurus, philosopher, Samos
-336	Alexander the Great, Semites part of Greek (Hellenistic) administrations
-300	Euclides, mathematician, Alexandria
-284	Livius, historian, Rome (died -204)
-200	First books met sowed back (made from sheepskin as a result of an Egyptian ban of export of papyrus rolls, the original form of what was called a book). Invention in Pergamum, hence "parchment". The Egyptian ban is thought to have been the result of a lobby by the library of Alexandria, aspiring to keep her monopoly in scholarship.
-106	Cicero, Latium
-100	Expansion of Roman empire. Mediterranean Semites under Roman influence
-65	Horatius, Rome
-63	Roman emperor Augustus (Died -14)
-42	Roman emperor Tiberius (died -37)
56	Roman historian Tacitus (died 120)
354	Augustinus, Algeria
470	Boethius, Rome