BOOK I

AEGEAN PRELUDE

3500–1000 B.C.

B.C. 9000:

Neolithic Age in Crete

3400-3000:

Early Minoan, Helladic, Cycladic, I

3400-2100:

Neolithic Age in Thessaly

3400-1200:

Bronze Age in Crete

3000-2600:

Early Minoan, Helladic, Cycladic, II

3000:

Copper mined in Cyprus

2870:

First known settlement at Troy

2600-2350:

Early Minoan, Helladic, Cycladic, III

2350-2100:

Middle Minoan, Helladic, Cycladic, I

2200-1200:

Bronze Age in Cyprus

2100-1950:

Middle Minoan, Helladic, Cycladic, II; first series of Cretan palaces

2100-1600:

Chalcolithic Age in Thessaly

1950-1600:

Middle Minoan, Helladic, Cycladic, III

1900:

Destruction of first series of Cretan palaces

1600-1500:

Late Minoan, Helladic (Mycenaean), Cycladic, I; second series of Cretan palaces

1600-1200:

Bronze Age in Thessaly

1582:

? Foundation of Athens by Cecrops

1500-1400:

Late Minoan, Helladic (Mycenaean), Cycladic, II

1450-1400:

Destruction of second series of Cretan palaces

1433:

? Deucalion and the Flood

1400-1200:

Late Minoan, Helladic (Mycenaean), Cycladic, III; palaces of Tiryns and Mycenae

1313:

? Foundation of Thebes by Cadmus

1300-1100:

Age of Achaean domination in Greece

1283:

? Coming of Pelops into Elis

1261-1209:

? Heracles

1250:

Theseus at Athens; Oedipus at Thebes; Minos and Daedalus at Cnossus

1250-1183:

“Sixth city” of Troy; age of the Homeric heroes

1225:

? Voyage of the Argonauts

1213:

? War of the Seven against Thebes

1200:

? Accession of Agamemnon

1192-1183:

? Siege of Troy

1176:

? Accession of Orestes

1104:

? Dorian invasion of Greece