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# Ancient Greece
## Overview
Ancient Greece (~800146 BCE) comprised independent city-states (*poleis*) that produced foundational contributions to Western philosophy, democracy, science, art, and literature.
Ancient Greece (~800146 BCE) comprised independent city-states (*poleis*) that produced foundational contributions to Western philosophy, democracy, science, art, and literature. @t[800 BCE..146 BCE]
## Key Facts
- Region: Greek peninsula, Aegean islands, western Anatolia, colonies across the Mediterranean
- Period: ~800 BCE (Archaic) 146 BCE (Roman conquest)
- Period: ~800 BCE (Archaic) 146 BCE (Roman conquest) @t[~800 BCE]
- Major city-states: Athens, Sparta, Corinth, Thebes
- Language: Ancient Greek (Indo-European)
- Writing: Greek alphabet, adapted from Phoenician ~800 BCE
- Writing: Greek alphabet, adapted from Phoenician ~800 BCE @t[~800 BCE]
## Major Periods
- Archaic (~800480 BCE): Colonization, rise of the polis, early philosophy
- Classical (480323 BCE): Golden Age of Athens, Peloponnesian War, Alexander
- Hellenistic (323146 BCE): Post-Alexander kingdoms, cultural diffusion
- Archaic (~800480 BCE): Colonization, rise of the polis, early philosophy @t[800 BCE..480 BCE]
- Classical (480323 BCE): Golden Age of Athens, Peloponnesian War, Alexander @t[480 BCE..323 BCE]
- Hellenistic (323146 BCE): Post-Alexander kingdoms, cultural diffusion @t[323 BCE..146 BCE]
## Achievements
- Athenian democracy established ~508 BCE under Cleisthenes [^1]
- Athenian democracy established ~508 BCE under Cleisthenes @t[~508 BCE] [^1]
- Philosophy: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle
- Drama: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes
- History: Herodotus, Thucydides
- Olympic Games, first held 776 BCE
- Parthenon completed ~432 BCE
- Olympic Games, first held 776 BCE @t[=776 BCE]
- Parthenon completed ~432 BCE @t[~432 BCE]
## Decline
Greece fell under Macedonian hegemony after the Battle of Chaeronea (338 BCE), then became a Roman province after the destruction of Corinth in 146 BCE.
Greece fell under Macedonian hegemony after the Battle of Chaeronea (338 BCE), then became a Roman province after the destruction of Corinth in 146 BCE. @t[=338 BCE]
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[^1]: Ober, J. *The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece* (Princeton, 2015)