Periods

History by period, using the usual Western division of the past. Dates are approximate: periods blur into each other.

Antiquity

c. 3000 BC – AD 476

Classical Greece c. 510–323 BC

499 – 449 BC The Persian Wars Not one war but a series of them: a revolt in Ionia, two Persian invasions of Greece, and thirty years of Greek counterattacks. Thermopylae, Marathon and Salamis all belong to this story, but to different chapters of it.

More periods appear here as new stories are published.