Classical (jan 1, 500 BC – jan 1, 336 BC)

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The classical period of ancient Greek history is fixed between about 500 B. C. when the Greeks began to come into conflict with the kingdom of Persia to the east, and the death of the Macedonian king and conqueror Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. In this period Athens reached its greatest political and cultural heights: the full development of the democratic system of government under the Athenian statesman Pericles; the building of the Parthenon on the Acropolis; the creation of the tragedies of Sophocles, Aeschylus, and Euripides; and the founding of the philosophical schools of Socrates and Plato.