FACTS IN ANCIENT GREECE

The history of Greece during Classical Antiquity may thus be subdivided into the following periods:    - Archaic period (c. 800 – c. 500 BC): artists made larger free-standing sculptures in stiff poses.This period end when the Athenians try a new experiment in government: the world's first democracy.    - Classical period (c. 500 – 323 BC): characterised by a style which was considered by later observers to be exemplary i.e. "classical", as shown in for instance the Parthenon.    - Hellenistic period (323–146 BC): Greek culture and power expanded into the Near and Middle East. This period begins with the death of Alexander and ends with the Roman conquest.    - Roman Greece, the period between Roman victory over the Corinthians and the establishment of Byzantium by Constantine as the capital of the Roman Empire in AD 330.    - Period of Christianization: the final phase of Antiquity.