Oxford Summary Chart
for GBT I & II
| Historical Events | GBT I | GBT II |
| c.1200 BC- Trojan War | ||
| c.1100 BC- Gk. Colon. Ionia | ||
| c.776 BC-1st Olympic Games | 8thC- Homer, Iliad; Odyssey | |
| c.683 BC-1st Athen. Elections | ||
| 621 BC- Draco's Legal Code | ||
| 594 BC- Solon's Const. Reform | ||
| 509 BC- Roman Repub. Estab. | c.525-456- Aeschylus, Oresteia (Agamem., Lib. B., Eumenides) | |
| 507 BC- Cleisthenes Demo.. | ||
| 493 BC- Themistocles Elected; Fortifies Athenian Harbor | c.496-406-Sophocles, 3Theb.Plays (Oedip., Oedip. at C., Antig.) | |
| 499-449 BC- Persian Wars | ||
| 490 BC- Gk. Victory at Marathon | c.484-424- Herodotus, Histories | |
| 480 BC- Gk. Defeat at Thermop. | ||
| 480 BC- Gk. Victory at Salamis | ||
| 462-461 BC- Pericles' Demo.Reforms | c.460-400- Thucydides, Pelop.War | |
| 431-404 BC- Peloponnesian War | c.429-377- Plato, Gorgias, Last Days of Soc. (Euthy., Apol., Crito, Phaedo) | c.429-377- Plato, Republic, Theaetetus, Phaedrus |
| 336 BC- Alexander succeeds Philip; dies in 325 | 384-322- Aristotle, Poetics | 384-322- Aristotle, Nico. Ethics, De Anima, Physics, Metaphysics |
| 264-146 BC- Punic Wars | ||
| 44 BC- Caesar's Assassination | c.97-54BC- Lucretius, Nature of Things | |
| c.4 BC- Birth of Christ | 70-19 BC- Virgil, Aeneid | |
| c.AD 56-117- Tacitus, Annals | ||
| 14 AD- Death of Augustus Caesar | c.AD 46-120- Plutarch, Lives |