By period
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- Archaic 800–480 BCE The Archaic period runs from the adoption of the Greek alphabet to the Persian Wars.
- Classical 480–323 BCE From the Persian Wars to the death of Alexander, the Classical period is the golden age of Athenian democracy and pan-Hellenic culture.
- Hellenistic 323–31 BCE After Alexander's death, Greek culture spreads across the eastern Mediterranean and Near East while new royal courts patronise scholarship.
- Late Antique 330–600 CE Late antiquity bridges the Roman Empire's Christianisation and the early Byzantine world.
- Roman 31 BCE–330 CE Under Roman rule, Greek remains the language of education and elite culture across the eastern Empire.