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Greece_and_Rome 776 BC - AD 393 timeline
776 BC
The traditional date for the first athletic contest at Olympia
753 BC
This year is later selected by Roman scholars as the date of the founding of Rome, becoming the first year (AUC 1) in Roman chronology
c. 750 BC
The Etruscans establish Italy's first civilization, in the region between the Arno and the Tiber
c. 750 BC
The Homeric texts, the
Iliad
and the
Odyssey
, are written down - probably in Ionia
c. 700 BC
The Greeks make the Phoenician alphabet much more flexible by the addition of vowels, from alpha to omega
Greek inscription
Fotofile CG
c. 700 BC
The island of Sicily is colonized from the eastern Mediterranean by both Phoenicians and Greeks
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