900-800 B.C. Age of Homer.

800-700 B.C. Rise of Aristocracies.

700-(?) B.C. Hesiod.

650-600 B.C. Age of lawgivers.

621 B.C. Legislation of Draco.

594-593 B.C. Legislation of Solon.

560-510 B.C. Tyranny of the Pisitratidae.

508-507 B.C. Reforms of Cleisthenes.

490-479 B.C. Persian Wars.

478 B.C. Confederacy of Delos: supremacy of Athens.

462-461 B.C. Areopagus deprived of its chief political and judicial powers by Ephialtes.

453-452 B.C. Institution of the thirty rural justices.

451-450 B.C. Further restriction of the powers of the Areopagus by Pericles.

450 B.C. Thirty years' peace.

431-404 B.C. Peloponnesian War; Sparta wrests the supremacy from Athens.

425 B.C. Pay for jurors increased by Cleon.

415 B.C. Mutilation of the Herms and profanation of the Mysteries.

411 B.C. Revolution of the Four Hundred; trial of Antiphon.

410 B.C. Restoration of democracy.

406 B.C. Battle of Arginusae; trial of the generals.

404-403 B.C. The Thirty Tyrants; the Forty and the public arbitrators replace the thirty rural justices.

399 B.C. Trial of Socrates

387-386 B.C. The King's Peace (Peace of Antalcidas)

378-377 B.C. Second Athenian confederacy; written evidence substituted for oral.

371 B.C. Battle of Leuctra; supremacy of Thebes.

362 B.C. Battle of Mantinea; Thebes loses supremacy.

346 B.C. Peace of Philocrates; Philip's commanding position in Greece

recognized.

338 B.C. Battle of Chaeronea; Philip master of Greece.

336 B.C. Assassination of Philip.

334 B.C. Alexander the Great makes war on Persia.

324 B.C. Harpalus, treasurer of Alexander, absconds to Athens.

323 B.C. Death of Alexander; unsuccessful Greek revolt.

322 B.C. Antipater forces a moderate oligarchic constitution on Athens;

Death of Demosthenes.

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