<P> Ancient Greece ( Greek : Ελλάς , translit . Ellas ) was a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th -- 9th centuries BC to the end of antiquity ( c . AD 600 ) . Immediately following this period was the beginning of the Early Middle Ages and the Byzantine era . Roughly three centuries after the Late Bronze Age collapse of Mycenaean Greece , Greek urban poleis began to form in the 8th century BC , ushering in the Archaic period and colonization of the Mediterranean Basin . This was followed by the period of Classical Greece , an era that began with the Greco - Persian Wars , lasting from the 5th to 4th centuries BC . Due to the conquests by Alexander the Great of Macedonia , Hellenistic civilization flourished from Central Asia to the western end of the Mediterranean Sea . The Hellenistic period came to an end with the conquests and annexations of the eastern Mediterranean world by the Roman Republic , which established the Roman province of Macedonia in Roman Greece , and later the province of Achaea during the Roman Empire . </P>
<P> Ancient Greece ( Greek : Ελλάς , translit . Ellas ) was a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th -- 9th centuries BC to the end of antiquity ( c . AD 600 ) . Immediately following this period was the beginning of the Early Middle Ages and the Byzantine era . Roughly three centuries after the Late Bronze Age collapse of Mycenaean Greece , Greek urban poleis began to form in the 8th century BC , ushering in the Archaic period and colonization of the Mediterranean Basin . This was followed by the period of Classical Greece , an era that began with the Greco - Persian Wars , lasting from the 5th to 4th centuries BC . Due to the conquests by Alexander the Great of Macedonia , Hellenistic civilization flourished from Central Asia to the western end of the Mediterranean Sea . The Hellenistic period came to an end with the conquests and annexations of the eastern Mediterranean world by the Roman Republic , which established the Roman province of Macedonia in Roman Greece , and later the province of Achaea during the Roman Empire . </P>
when did the ancient greece start and end
when did the ancient greece start and end
from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th -- 9th centuries BC to the end of antiquity ( c . AD 600 )
from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th -- 9th centuries BC to the end of antiquity ( c . AD 600 )