OSU EXCAVATIONS AT ISTHMIA
BRIEF HISTORICAL CHRONOLOGY
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Neolithic Period ca. 10,000 - 3000 B.C.
Bronze Age ca. 3000 - 1100 B.C.
Mycenaean Age 1650 - 1100 B.C.
Archaic Age 1100 - 500 B.C.
Classical Age 500 - 323 B.C.
Hellenistic Age 323 - 31 B.C.
Early Roman Age 31 B.C. - A.D. 330
Late Roman Age A.D. 330 - 600
Byzantine Age A.D. 600 - 1204
Frankish Period A.D. 1204 - 1458
First Ottoman Period A.D. 1458 - 1686
Venetian Period A.D. 1686 - 1715
Second Ottoman Period 1715 - 1821
Greek War of Independence 1821 - 1829
Modern Period 1829 - today
Earthquake and
abandonment of city 1858
Smyrna Disaster 1922
German Occupation 1942 - 1944
Civil War 1944 - 1949
Dictatorship 1967 - 1974
IMPORTANT RULERS
Sisyphos legendary king of Korinth
Bacchiadae aristocratic families, ca. 750 - 657 B.C.
Kypselos ca. 657 - 629 B.C.
Periander 629-595 B.C.
Philip II of Macedon 360 - 336 B.C.
Alexander III of Macedon 336 - 323 B.C.
Augustus 31 B.C. - A.D. 14
Hadrian A.D. 117-138
Constantine 326-337
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revised 12 April 2000