The end of the so-called Greek Dark…

765 BCE to 622 BCE

The end of the so-called Greek Dark Ages is traditionally dated to 776 BCE, the year of the first Olympic Games.

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.

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Athens, City-State of View → Thebes, City-State of View → Tegea, City-State of View → Lesbos, Greek City-State of View → Priene, Greek City-State of View → Rhodes, City-States of View → Miletus (Ionian Greek) city-state of View → Colophon, Greek City-state of View → Kos, (Greek) city-state of View → Greece, classical View → Ephesus (Ionian Greek) city-state of View → Sicyon, Greek city-state of View → Magnesia on the Maeander, Greek City-State of View → Halicarnassus, Greek City-State of View → Paros (Ionian Greek) city-state of View → Naxos (Ionian Greek) city-state of View → Sparta, Kingdom of View → Chalcis, City-State of View → Phocaea (Ionian Greek) city-state of View → Corinth, City-State of View → Greeks, Classical View → Segesta, (Elymian-Ionian Greek) city-state of View → Zancle (Dorian Greek) city-state of View → Cumae, Euboean Greek city-state of View → Neapolis (Dorian Greek) city-state of View → Magna Graecia View → Rhegium, Greek city-state of View → Naxos (Dorian Greek) city-state of View → Syracuse, Corinthian city-state of View → Catana (Euboean Greek) city-state of View → Sybaris (Achaean Greek) city-state of View → Croton (Achaean Greek) city-state of View → Taras (Dorian Greek) city-state of View → Gela (Dorian Greek) city-state of View → Byzantium (Ionian Greek) city-state of View → Selinus, (Dorian Greek) city-state of View → Himera, (Dorian-Ionian Greek) city-state of View → Cyrene View →

Topics
Greek colonization View →

Subjects
Writing View → Architecture View → Sculpture View → Painting and Drawing View → Performing Arts View → Government View → Mathematics View → Philosophy and logic View →

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