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Western Culture 101.09 

Troy and the Aegean:  A Timetable

from K.A. Raaflaub, "Homer, the Trojan War, and History,"  The World of Troy:  Homer, Schliemann, and the Treasures of Pram.  Washington, D.C.: Society for the Preservation of the Greek Heritage, 1997, p.74.

Instructor:  M. Prevo

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All dates BCE

Bronze Age

• ca. 2200-1450    "Minoan" palace culture in Crete
• ca 1700               Beginning of Troy VI
• ca 1600-1200     "Mycenaean" palace culture in Greece
• ca 1280-1240     Destruction of Troy VI
• ca 1220-1180     Destruction of Troy VII
• ca. 1225-1200    Widespread destruction of Mycenaean sites in Greece
• ca. 1200              End of the Hittite empire; "sea peoples" repelled from Egypt.

Early Iron Age ("Dark Ages")  Time of transition.

• ca. 1150           Final destruction of the citadel of Mycenae
• ca. 1100-1000 Gradual invasion or infiltration of Dorians into mainland Greece.
• ca. 1050-950   Migration of Ionian and other Greeks to islands and west coast of Anatolia
• ca. 1050-900   "Protogeometric Period"
• ca. 900 - 750   "Geometric Period"

Archaic Period (CA. 800-480)

• ca. 750-650     "Orientalizing Period"
• ca. 750-660     Composition of the Iliad