| Dates | Greeks (Achaians, Hellenes) | Trojans ---- | Romans |
| ca ?? | Gaia + Ouranos: Kronos & Prometheus: Zeus & Hera | Tellus+Caelum: Saturn: Jupiter & Juno | |
| ca 1300? | Knossos: Minos, Labyrinth, Daedalus | ||
| ca 1200 BCE | [War at Troy: Achilles, Menelaus (without Helen), Odysseus] | [Hector, Paris & Helen, Aeneas & Aphrodite (Venus) his mother] | |
| Sequels to War at Troy | Odysseus travels to get home to Ithaca (Greece) | Aeneas travels to get new home (in Italy, before Rome), meets Dido (founder of Carthage) | |
| 776 BCE | first Olympic games | ||
| ca 750 BCE | Alphabet
from East;
Homer's epics: Iliad [story of Ilion = Troy] Odyssey < Odysseus' journey home to wife Penelopge & son Telemachus |
Rome
founded by Romulus & Remus
[More on Early Rome here] Population increased by Asylum for men & Rape of Sabine Women to get wives |
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| ca 650 | Sappho (Lesbos) cites Helen & Aphrodite | ||
| Aeschylus (525/4-456): Promethus Bound | Monarchy gives way to oligarchy [Republic]: Brutus | ||
| ca 495-429 | Pericles' life | ||
| 490-480 | Wars with Persia: Marathon,
Salamis
[subject of Histories by Herodotos (ca 484-ca 429)] |
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| 469-399 | Socrates' life | ||
| ca 460-ca400 | Thucydides' life | ||
| 447-438 | Parthenon (temple to Athena) built under Pericles' administration | ||
| 441 | Antigone produced by Sophocles (496-406) | ||
| 431-404 | War between Athenians & Spartans (Peloponnesians) | ||
| 428-348 | Plato's life | ||
| 415 | Athenian expedition to Syracuse (Sicily) | ||
| 411 | Lysistrata produced by Aristophanes (ca445-380's) | ||
| 399 | Trial of Socrates | ||
| ca 390 | Plato writes Apology of Socrates | ||
| ca 250-150 | Fierce struggle with Carthage (Punic, that is, Phoenician, Wars) | ||
| ca 50 | Catullus & Julius Caesar | ||
| 31 BCE | Battle at Actium: Caesar (Augustus) vs Marc Antony & Cleopatra | ||
| Virgil 70-19 BCE: | Aeneidtells about Trojan hero Aeneas: his home city destroyed, he travels seeking a new home, meets Dido, goes on to fight to settle in Italy. | Virgil writing Aeneid ca 25 BCE |
In class we pointed out that both
Greeks & Romans looked back to stories of the Greeks' campaign against
Troy; but the Romans identified with the enemies of the Greeks, the losing
Trojan side.
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