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Art of Ancient Greece 1 2 Major Periods Geometric Period 900-700 BCE Orientalizing Period 700-600 BCE Archaic Period 600-480 BCE Athens has a representative government; every community (deme) had its own assembly and magistrates 3 4. Classical Period framed by the defeat of the Persians (479 BCE) and the death of Alexander the Great (323 BCE) Early Classical 480-450 BCE destruction of the Persian fleet in the Straits of Salamis, 479 BCE 5th Century Classical 450-400 BCE Pericles rebuilds the Acropolis, he dies in 429 BCE Sparta dominated the Peloponnese and much of the rest of mainland Greece; 4 5th Century Classical 450-400 BCE (continued?) Athens dominated the Aegean and became a wealthy and influential center of a maritime empire
