800-600 B.C.
Time of composition of Iliad and Odyssey
Earliest Greek temples
Assyrian Empire: lion hunt reliefs, palace of Ashurbanipal II
600-500 B.C.
Archaic Period in Greece
Kouroi and Korai sculptures
Black Figure Vases
500-450 B.C.
Early Classical Period in Greece
Kritios Boy
Discobolos by Myron
Poseidon of Artemesion
Red Figure Vases
Early Greek Drama: Tragedies of Aeschylus
Choral Dances as part of Greek drama
450-400 B.C.
High classical Period in Greece
Parthenon, Erechtheion, Temple of Athena Nike on Athenian Acropolis
Temple of Zeus at Olympia, great statue of Zeus by Phidias
Doryphoros by Polykleitos
Tragedies of Sophocles, including Oedipus Tyrannus; Comedies of Aristophanes
Teaching and death of Socrates
400-330 B.C.
Late Classical Period in Greece
Apoxymenos by Lysippos
Cnidian Aphrodite by Praxitiles
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
Tragedies of Euripides
Plato's Dialogues
Aristotle tutors young Alexander of Macedon
330-280 B.C.
Early Hellenistic Period
Portraits of Alexander the Great by Lysippos
Great Altar of Zeus at Pergamon
