Appendix 1
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
This is confined for the most part to events and works given significant mention in
this book.Before about 550 most dates are approximate and some of them much
debated. The abbreviation fl. for floruit or floruerunt (he/she/it/they flourished)
represents a scholarly estimate in the absence of firm knowledge.
HISTORY AND EVENTS
BC
Bronze Age
3000–1000 Minoan civilization
1400 Destruction of Cnossus
1580–1120 Mycenaean civilization
1250 Destruction of Troy
Iron Age – Dark Age
1100 Fall in population;
Migrations to Asia Minor
Archaic period
776 The first Olympiad
730–710 Sparta conquers Messenia
650 Development of ‘Lycurgan’ constitution at Sparta
620 Draconian code at Athens