The Hellenistic Period
| B.C.E. | Goddess Athena | Archeology | Literature | History |
| Ptolemy I 323-283 |
-Hellenistic Temple of Athena at Troy
323 -Doric Temple of Athena Lindia at Lindus ca. 300 |
-Foundation of the Alexandrian library ca.295 |
-Zeno of Citium at the stoa 322-264 -Euclid's Elements ca.300 |
-Foundation of Alexandria 331 |
| Ptolemy II 283-246 |
Temple of Athena at Pergamon
263 ? |
-Greek poets Callimachus and Theocritus ca. 270 |
-Philetaeros 283-263 -Sack of Athens by the Heruli 267 -First Punic War 264-241 -Eumenes I 263-241 |
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| Ptolemy III 246-221 |
-Sanctuary of Athena Cynthia at Delos
ca. 230 -Sanctuary of Athena Camiras at Camirus ca. 226 |
-Aristarchus of Samos and Apollonius of Rhodes ca.250 | ||
| Ptolemy IV 221-203 |
-Second Punic War 218-201 | |||
| Ptolemy V 203-181 |
-Altar of Zeus at Pergamon ca.180 |
-Autonomy of the Greek cities proclamed by Flaminus 196 | ||
| Ptolemy VI 181-145 |
-Cult statue of Athena at Priene ca. 158 -156 |
-Foundation of the Temple of Zeus Olympian at Athens 174 -Pergamon library ca. 160 -Prien's theater c.150 |
-Expel of the philosophers from Rome 155 -Polybius ca.155 -Posidonius ca. 151-135 |
-Destruction of the Macedonian monarchy by the Romans 167 -Greece becomes a Roman province 146 |
| Ptolemies VII-X 145-80 |
-Carthage is sacked in 146 -Corinth is sacked in 146 |
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| Ptolemy XI 80-51 |
-Venus from Milo ca. 100 | -Religious renaissance ca. 100 |
-Delos is sacked in 88 | |
| Cleopatra VII 51-30 |
-Laoconte ca. 50 |
-The Seleucid Kingdom becomes a Roman province 30 |