Agora Timeline

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c. 7000 BCE - 5000 BCE

Earliest known human habitation on the Acropolis and around the Agora of Athens.
c. 1550 BCE - c. 1100 BCE

Mycenaean Period. Agora established at Athens.
c. 1100 BCE - c. 600 BCE

Iron Age Development, public buildings erected at the Agora in Athens.
560 BCE - 507 BCE

Further development and expansion of the Agora of Athens.
480 BCE

Sack of Athens by the Persians under Xerxes. The Agora is destroyed.
460 BCE - 429 BCE

The Age of Pericles. Athenian Agora is rebuilt, construction of Parthenon.
431 BCE - 404 BCE

The Peloponnesian Wars which leave Athens defeated and the Agora damaged.
2 Aug 338 BCE

The Battle of Charonea gives Athens to the Macedonian victors. Agora takes on Macedonian characteristics.
159 BCE - 138 BCE

King Attalos II of Pergamon builds the great Stoa in the Agora of Athens.
146 BCE

Roman influence over Greece begins to rise.
86 BCE

Siege of Athens by the Roman general Sulla. Agora is destroyed.
27 BCE - 14 CE

Reign of Augustus Caesar. Athens and the Agora restored.
117 CE - 138 CE

Rule of the Roman Emperor Hadrian who supports great building projects in and around the Agora of Athens.
267 CE

Agora of Athens burned by invading Herulians.