Timeline
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776 BCEFirst athletic games in honour of Zeus are held at Olympia with one event, the stadion foot race.
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700 BCE - 600 BCEFirst appearance of sphinxes in ancient Greek art.
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c. 700 BCESparta, Argos and Paros hold the first documented musical competitions in Greece.
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586 BCEFirst athletic games at Delphi.
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580 BCEFirst athletic games at Isthmia.
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573 BCEFirst athletic games at Nemea in honour of Zeus.
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c. 550 BCEFirst appearance in ancient Greek art of sphinxes with raised hind quarters.
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c. 525 BCE - c. 456 BCELife of Greek tragedy poet Aeschylus.
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c. 484 BCE - 407 BCELife of Greek tragedy poet Euripides.
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c. 460 BCE - c. 380 BCELife of Greek comic poet Aristophanes.
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c. 450 BCEFirst klepsydra - water timekeeping device - used in Athens.
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c. 330 BCEStatue of Hermes sculpted by Praxiteles.
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c. 300 BCE - c. 290 BCETheatre of Ephesos constructed.
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271 BCEFinal Games at Nemea.
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261 CELast documented victor at Olympic Games.
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393 CERoman Emperor Theodosius definitively ends all pagan Games in Greece.