The Isles of Greece! 2014 The Southern Cyclades THE isles of Greece! the isles of Greece Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.
Historical Overview PREHISTORIC GREECE : The Stone Age Paleolithic KYBP Homo heidelbergensis (Petralona), Homo neanderthalis (~ KYBP), Homo sapiens (~26 KYBP) end of ice age Mesolithic 13-9 KYBP Neolithic BCE First Cycladic cultures: Sáliagos Sáliagos Antiparos
PREHISTORIC GREECE : The Bronze Age Early Bronze Age BCE Early Cycladic Middle Bronze Age Middle Cycladic; Minoans; destruction of Akrotiri 1628 Late Bronze Age Late Cycladic; Mycenaeans Dark Age Homer, Panhellenism, Egalitarianism, Polis Particularism Friedrich, Fire in the Sea Prehistoric Thera Plato, Timaeus Homer, Odyssey
ANCIENT GREECE Archaic BCE Colonization, Hoplites, Tyranny, Philosophy Classical Persian Wars , Athenian Empire, Peloponnesian War , Alexander Hellenistic Seleucids, Macedonians, Ptolemies Roman 146 BCE-330 CE Corinth and Constantinople Pindar, Odes Aeschylus, Agamemnon Herodotus on the Foundation of Thera Pericles’ funeral speech Plato Acts, Corinthians
MEDIEVAL GREECE Byzantine The Franks Tourkokratia Orthodoxy, Diaspora
MODERN GREEK HISTORY Revolution Absolutism and Reform Irredentism, nationalism, and the Megali Idea: Crete and Venizelos A Half-century of War Balkan War , WW I , Catastrophe , Metaxas , WW II , Civil War Reconstruction and Dictatorship Karamanlis , NATO and the EEC, Cyprus The Colonels Byron Greek poetry Leigh Fermor Kazantzakis Merrill Miller
COMTEMPORARY GREEK HISTORY Karamanlis’s ND , , Papandreou’s PASOK , , The European Debt Crisis