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Classical Greece

800 BCE – 146 BCE

The Greek city-states and the Hellenistic world — democracy, philosophy, and the wars that shaped the ancient Aegean.

236 events

Key events

1. Battle of Marathon489 BCE
   490 BCE battle in the Greco-Persian wars
2. Battle of Thermopylae479 BCE
   battle of 480 BCE during Persian invasion of Greece
3. Battle of Salamis479 BCE
   480 BCE naval battle fought between an alliance of Greek city-states and the Persian Empire
4. Battle of Artemisium479 BCE
   480 BCE naval battle
5. Battle of Plataea478 BCE
   479 BCE land battle during the second Persian invasion of Greece
6. Battle of Mycale478 BCE
   479 BCE battle that decisively ended Xerxes's invasion of Greece
7. Peloponnesian War430 BCE
   war fought between Athens and Sparta (431–404 BCE)
8. Battle of Chaeronea337 BCE
   338 BCE battle during the expansion of Macedonia under Philip II
9. Battle of the Granicus333 BCE
   334 BCE battle between Macedonians and Persians
10. Battle of Cynoscephalae196 BCE
    battle of the Second Macedonian War
11. Roman–Seleucid War191 BCE
    war between Rome and the Seleucid Empire, 192–188 BCE
12. Battle of Magnesia189 BCE
    battle

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