Greek Culture Timeline

Timeline

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