FYE Timeline

Question 1

1750 BCE to 1050 BCE

Answer 1

The Bronze Age/Mycenaean Period, Linear B Writing

Question 2

1200 BCE

Answer 2

Trojan War

Question 3

1050 BCE to 750 BCE

Answer 3

Greek Iron Age/Dark Age, “Homer’’s likely multiple poets performing epic songs

Question 4

776 BCE

Answer 4

1st Olympic Games

Question 5

509 BCE

Answer 5

traditional founding of the Roman Republic

Question 6

478/477 BCE and 454

Answer 6

Formation of the Delian League; 454- transfer of the delian league treasury to athens

Question 7

406 BCE

Answer 7

death of sophocles and euripedes

Question 8

146BCE-640 CE

Answer 8

Roman Era; 44 BCE- Assassination of Julius Caesar

Question 9

450/449 BCE

Answer 9

Perikles Reform and Perikles proposes ambitious building project (including Parthenon)

Question 10

431-404 BCE

Answer 10

Peloponnesian War

Question 11

750-500 BCE

Answer 11

Archaic Era, 8th c BCE- earliest Greek alphabetic writing, 750-700: initial writing down of the Iliad

Question 12

508/507 BCE

Answer 12

Democratic reforms ok Kleisthenes in Athens (isonomia)

Question 13

500-323 BCE

Answer 13

Classical Era; 458- Oresteia 1st performed; 441- Antigone 1st performed; 431-400 Thucydides writing History of the Peloponnesian War

Question 14

499-449 BCE

Answer 14

Greco-Persian Wars

Question 15

323-146 BCE

Answer 15

Hellenistic Period; 323- death of Alexander the Great

Question 16

264-146 BCE

Answer 16

Punic Wars (Rome v Carthage)

Question 17

27 BCE-14 CE

Answer 17

Reign of Augustus and the start of the pax romana and the roman empire

Question 18

411 BCE

Answer 18

Lysistrata performed at Lenaea Festival

Question 19

406 BCE

Answer 19

The Bacchae performed (posthumously)

Question 20

349 BCE

Answer 20

death of plato

Question 21

29-19 BCE

Answer 21

Vergil composes The Aeneid

Question 22

70 BCE and 19 BCE

Answer 22

birth and death of vergil