Greece
8th century – 500 BC
Archaic period
c. 700 BC
Homer, Iliad, Odyssey
500–336BC
Classical period
336–30 BC
Hellenistic period
336–323 BC
Alexander III (the Great) of Macedonia
after 323 BC
Alexander's successors (the diadochi)
Hellenistic kingships:
Antigonides (Macedonia) to 168 BC
Seleucides (Mesopotamia/Syria) to 64 BC
Ptolemies (Egypt) to 30 BC
from 146 BC
Roman epoch in Greece
Rome
8th century – 500 BC
Regal period
500–30 BC
Republic
500–287 BC
Early republic period: Conflict of the Orders
287–133 BC
Middle or classical republic period
133–30 BC
Late republic period: time of crisis
30 BC – AD 300
Empire
27 BC – AD 14
Augustus, the first Roman emperor
AD 284–305
Diocletian; tetrarchy
300 – 6th century
Late antiquity
306–37
Constantine I (the Great)
395
Division into Eastern and Western Roman empires
476
End of the Western Roman Empire