English 576          History and Theories of Rhetoric

Timeline

B.C.E.

 

c. 1600-1100 - Mycenaean Era (Homeric Greece)

c. 1250 - Battle of Troy

c. 1100 - Dorian invasion (?) and fall of Mycenaean civilization; widespread fall of civilizations throughout the Eastern Mediterranean; beginning of "Greek Dark Ages."

776 - First Olympic Games.

c. 750 - Greek literacy re-established with adaption of Phoenician script.  

Approximate date of written transcriptions of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey

510 - Democracy inaugurated in Athens under Cleisthenes.

c. 480 - Gorgias born.

478 - Delian League formed.     

c. 467 - Death of Hieron and liberation of Syracuse; Corax begins giving lessons in rhetoric.

461 - Pericles begins massive public works program in Athens.                                                                                                        

449 - Pericles makes peace with Persia.

447 - Work on the Parthenon begins.                                                                                              

436 - Isocrates born.

431-404 - Peloponnesian War is fought.

429 - Death of Pericles.                                                                                                                   

c. 428 - Plato born.

427 - Gorgias arrives in Athens.                                                                                                        

c. 414 - Encomium of Helen

404 - Athens defeated in Peloponnesian War; Rise of the Thirty Tyrants.   

403 - Thirty Tyrants overthrown by Thrasybulus.                                          

c. 403-395 - Dissoi Logoi

399 - Trial and death of Socrates. 

c. 390 - Against the Sophists

c. 386 - Gorgias

385 - Plato establishes the Academy.

384 - Aristotle born.

c. 380 - Death of Gorgias.

c. 370 - Phaedrus

347 - Death of Plato.

338 - Philip II of Macedonia forcibly unifies Greece.                                                                            

338 - Death of Isocrates.

336 - Philip assassinated; Alexander succeeds his father.

335 - Aristotle opens the Lyceum.

335-330 - Rhetoric

322 - Death of Aristotle.

317-307 - On Style

202 - End of Second Punic War; Rome dominant in the Mediterranean.

146 - Rome abolishes Greek democratic city-states.

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