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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