Antiochus of Athenswrote a book of definitions of astrological concepts, perhaps sometime around the 1st century CE. Critodemuswrote a work known as theVisionand another namedTablelikely sometime in the 1st century. Teucer of Babylonwrote a text that dealt with the planets, the signs, and co-...
Roman Emperor Theodosius I abolishes the Games, as part of a series of reforms against pagan practices. Top 1894 At the urging of Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is founded. 1896 Athens Games The first modern Olympic Games.14 countries are represented by abo...
Athens Corinth Lesvos Laconia Ancient Greece Timeline The timeline of Ancient Greece begins in the 8th century BC when Greece managed to emerge from the Dark Ages after the fall of the Mycenaean civilization. It ends with the annexation of Greece to the Roman Empire in 146 BC. Below is ...
Herodotus of Halicarnassos (484-426) writes on history, customs and life in the ancient world. 377 BCEHippocrates (circa 460-377) Greek physician. Wrote 87 treatises. Many herbal remedies.350 BCEGardens at the Academy, Athens, Greece Natural history references in the Jewish sacred scriptures ...
Essay Sample: Ancient Greek art differs from other ancient cultures, because of its reliance on depictions of human anatomy. While there were innovations in the field
Alcibiades was intertwined with the conflicts in Athens between democracy, oligarchy, and tyranny. Depending upon the circumstances, he could be said to be a proponent of each form of regime. Those shifting allegiances became even more complicated with Persia, as all of the parties within both ...
Beautiful and intelligent, she leads her father’s people to victory in battle, but earns only the jealousy of other women and the lust of men. Eventually she is driven away and goes into hiding along with her tutor, an Egyptian priest. The two travel the ancient world before eventually ...
Athens and Troy are built at this time. Humans begin abstract mathematics. Upper Egypt fights Lower Egypt. Development of Osiran mythology In south Africa, beginning of hunter-gatherer art. In Pelopponese, Greece, the Franchthi Cave settlement is abandoned.29th...
After a 1,500-year hiatus, the Games return to Athens, the ancient birthplace of the Olympic Games, where 14 nations are represented by all-male athletes. The highlight of thefirst modern Olympicsis the marathon, won by Greece's Spyridon Louis. With 43 events, including track and field, ...
86 BC Sulla conquers Athens, defeat Mithridates armies at Chaeronea and Orchomenus. 86 BC The orator M. Tullius Cicero completes his first work on rhetoric, De Inventione Rhetorica. 85 BC Treaty of Dardanus with Mithridates. 84 BC The new Italian citizens enfranchised by the lex Julia, ...