History and Culture

• Classical Acropolis

  The votive offerings continued at the Acropolis during the classical era (489 – 323 BCE). The Athenians built a small temple of Athena Nike right next to the Propylaia after winning a war against Boeotia and Chalcis. The Persian Wars In 499…

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• Archaic Acropolis

  7th Century BCE During the 7th c. BCE monumental sculpture and architecture began its development in mainland through a number of building projects in the Acropolis of Athens, at cape Sounion in the southern tip of Attica and in other…

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• Prehistoric Acropolis

  Stone Age The chronicle of the Acropolis of Athens is lost in prehistory, to a time even before the plane of Attica began to be cultivated. While the area around Attica was inhabited during the Upper Paleolithic period (30000 –…

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• History of the Acropolis

  Geology The Acropolis rock is part of a Late Cretaceous limestone ridge (Higgins) that cuts through the Attica plateau in the northeast to the southwest axis and includes the Likavitos hill, the Philopappos (Museum) hill, the hill of the Nymphs,…

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• Ancient Greece Timeline

  Petralona scull(Dating estimates vary widely from 700000 to 160000 years before present) Paleolithic Period(2.5 million – 10000 BCE) Apidima Cave scull fragment is the earliest example of modern humans (early Homo sapiens) found outside Africa. 210000 years ago   13000…

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