The end of the Dark Ages is…
765 BCE to 622 BCE
The Iliad and the Odyssey, the foundational texts of Western literature, are believed to have been composed by Homer in the seventh or eighth centuries BCE.
With the end of the Dark Ages, there emerge various kingdoms and city-states across the Greek peninsula, which spread to the shores of the Black Sea, Southern Italy ("Magna Graecia") and Asia Minor.
These states and their colonies reach great levels of prosperity that result in an unprecedented cultural boom, that of classical Greece, expressed in architecture, drama, science, mathematics and philosophy.
Groups
Athens, City-State of
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Thebes, City-State of
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Tegea, City-State of
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Lesbos, Greek City-State of
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Priene, Greek City-State of
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Rhodes, City-States of
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Miletus (Ionian Greek) city-state of
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Colophon, Greek City-state of
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Kos, (Greek) city-state of
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Greece, classical
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Ephesus (Ionian Greek) city-state of
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Sicyon, Greek city-state of
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Magnesia on the Maeander, Greek City-State of
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Halicarnassus, Greek City-State of
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Paros (Ionian Greek) city-state of
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Naxos (Ionian Greek) city-state of
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Sparta, Kingdom of
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Chalcis, City-State of
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Phocaea (Ionian Greek) city-state of
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Corinth, City-State of
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Greeks, Classical
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Segesta, (Elymian-Ionian Greek) city-state of
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Zancle (Dorian Greek) city-state of
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Cumae, Euboean Greek city-state of
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Neapolis (Dorian Greek) city-state of
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Magna Graecia
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Rhegium, Greek city-state of
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Naxos (Dorian Greek) city-state of
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Syracuse, Corinthian city-state of
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Catana (Euboean Greek) city-state of
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Sybaris (Achaean Greek) city-state of
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Croton (Achaean Greek) city-state of
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Taras (Dorian Greek) city-state of
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Gela (Dorian Greek) city-state of
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Byzantium (Ionian Greek) city-state of
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Selinus, (Dorian Greek) city-state of
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Himera, (Dorian-Ionian Greek) city-state of
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Cyrene
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