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9th Century B.C. Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome Timeline
LEGENDARY ROME / ARCHAIC PERIOD GREECE (800-500)

  • Blue dots = Events in Ancient Roman Timeline
  • Red dots = Events in Ancient Greek Timeline

    c. 9th C. B.C.
    c. 8th C. B.C.
    7th C. B.C.
    6th C. B.C.

    In the table below, in the right column are links to pages on the Ancient / Classical History site related to the time periods listed on the left.

    [ARCHAIC PERIOD GREECE (800-500)]
     - to 800 B.C.

    Homer
    800 Rise of the aristocracies
    800-700 B.C. Hellenes and Etruscans in Italy
    776 Olympic Games established
    753 B.C. Romulus founds city of Rome
    c. 750 Colonization of Southern Italy and Sicily
    c. 700 Hesiod
    621 Draco's code of law in Athens
    c. 600 Sappho (lyric poet)
    c. 600 Thales (philosopher)
    594-593 Solon
    545-510 Tyranny of the Peisistratids
    533 Thespis wins first tragedy competition
    509 B.C. Romans overthrow Tarquinius Superbus
    508 Cleisthenes reforms


    So-called Mask of Agamemnon
    -N.S. Gill
     •Homer
     •Homeric Questions of Authorship
     •Tale of Troy or Iliad?
     •Odysseus the Stranger
     •Homeric Geography
     •Miletus

    9th-6th Centuries | 5th-4th Centuries

    Greek Writers Timeline
    Historians Timeline
    Early Greek Poets Timeline
    Philosophers Timeline
    Timelines Index

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    http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_time_9thbc.htm
    This resource page is copyright © 2001-2003 N.S. Gill.

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