DIVISIONS IN GREEK HISTORY

Hellenic (2000 B.C.E. -- 338 B.C.E.)

from arrival of Greeks to victory of Philip of Macedonia

Hellenistic (336 B.C.E -- 148 B.C.E)

from Alexander the Great to Roman conquest

Breakdown of Hellenic Period

2000 B.C. arrival of Greeks into peninsula

1650 - 1100 B.C.E. BRONZE AGE

Minoans & Mycenaeans

1100 - 800 B.C.E. DARK AGE

Homeric poems

800 - 480 B.C.E. ARCHAIC or LYRIC AGE

polis, poetry, expansion, first olympics

500 - 338 B.C.E. CLASSICAL PERIOD

Athenian Empire, great philosophers

338 B.C.E. victory of Philip of Macedonia