ç		BCE			CE		è
	1300	1200		1100	1000	900	800		700		600	500			400	300		200		100		“0”			100		200		300			400		500
GREECE			Fall of Troy (1183)					Homer (~750)					ATHENS: -Sophists -history -tragedy -comedy -philosophy (Plato/ èArist.)
ROME								753: traditional date for founding of Rome (Romulus and Remus)									265: unifica-tion of Italia				31: Battle of Actium									330: Constan-tine moves capital to Byz.			410: Rome sacked by Visigoths
																	264-146: Punic Wars				29-19: Aeneid									* † ‡ (see below)
										REGAL PERIOD (to 509 BCE): kings				REPUBLIC (to 31 BCE): consuls									EMPIRE (31 BCE-330[1] CE)								BYZANTINE PERIOD (to 1453 CE)
Judaeo-Christian tradition [<Abraham ca.1800-1700] ~1280: Exodus 1250-1200: conquest of Canaan														~400: redaction of Hebrew Bible														*313: Christianity legalized in Roman Empire
																														†391: Christianity made official religion of Roman Empire ‡397-400: Augustine, Confessions

[1] This date is, of course, somewhat arbitrary. Historians place the “fall” of the Roman Empire between 300 and 600 A.D., depending on how they define “Rome”;
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794), in his famous Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, placed it in 476 C.E., the year of the conquest of the last Western emperor,

Romulus Augustulus, by the Hun chieftain Odacer. (Decline and Fall is now public domain and available online at http://www.ccel.org/g/gibbon/decline/home.html.)

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