B.C. |
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399-60: |
Agesilaus king at Sparta |
397: |
War between Syracuse and Carthage |
396: |
Aristippus of Cyrene and Antisthenes of Athens, philosophers |
395: |
Athens rebuilds the Long Walls |
394: |
Battles of Coronea and Cnidus |
? 393: |
Plato’s Apology; Xenophon’s Memorabilia; Aristophanes’ Ecclesiazusae |
391-87: |
Dionysius subjugates south Italy |
391: |
Isocrates opens his school |
390: |
Evagoras Hellenizes Cyprus |
387: |
Peace of Antalcidas, or King’s Peace; Plato visits Archytas of Taras, mathematician, and Dionysius I |
386: |
Plato founds the Academy |
383: |
Spartans occupy Cadmeia at Thebes |
380: |
Isocrates’ Panegyricus |
379: |
Pelopidas and Melon liberate Thebes |
378-54: |
Second Athenian Empire |
375: |
Theaetetus, mathematician |
372: |
Diogenes of Sinope, philosopher |
371: |
Epaminondas victorious at Leuctra |
370: |
Diocles of Euboea, embryologist; Eudoxus of Cnidus, astronomer |
367-57: |
Dionysius II dictator at Syracuse; Dion plans reforms |
367: |
Plato visits Dionysius II |
362: |
Epaminondas wins and dies at Mantinea |
361: |
Plato’s third visit to Syracuse |
360: |
Praxiteles of Athens and Scopas of Paros, sculptors; Ephorus of Cyme and Theopompus of Chios, historians |
359: |
Philip II regent in Macedonia |
357-46: |
War between Athens and Macedonia |
357-46: |
Exile of Dionysius II |
356-46: |
Second Sacred War |
356: |
Birth of Alexander the Great; burning of second temple at Ephesus; Isocrates’ On the Peace |
355: |
Isocrates’ Areopagiticus |
B.C. |
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354: |
Assassination of Dion |
353-49: |
The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus |
351: |
Demosthenes’ Philippic I |
349: |
Philip attacks Olynthus; Demosthenes’ Olynthiacs I and II |
348: |
Heracleides of Pontus, astronomer; Speusippus succeeds Plato as head of the Academy |
346: |
Demosthenes’ On the Peace; Isocrates’ Letter to Philip |
344: |
Timoleon rescues Syracuse; Demosthenes’ Philippic II |
343: |
Trial and acquittal of Aeschines |
342-38: |
Aristotle tutor of Alexander |
340: |
Timoleon defeats the Carthaginians |
338: |
Philip defeats Athenians at Chaeronea; death of Isocrates |
336: |
Assassination of Philip; accession of Alexander and Darius III |
335: |
Alexander burns down Thebes, and begins his Persian campaigns |
334: |
Aristotle opens the Lyceum; battle of the Granicus; choragic monument of Lysicrates |
333: |
Battle of Issus |
332: |
Siege and capture of Tyre; surrender of Jerusalem; foundation of Alexandria |
331: |
Battle of Gaugamela (Arbela); Alexander at Babylon and Susa |
330: |
Apelles of Sicyon, painter; Lysippus of Argos, sculptor; Aeschines’ Against Ctesiphon; Demosthenes’ On the Crown |
329-8: |
Alexander invades central Asia |
327: |
Deaths of Cleitus and Callisthenes |
327-5: |
Alexander in India |
325: |
Voyage of Nearchus |
324: |
Exile of Demosthenes |
323: |
Death of Alexander; Lamian War |
322: |
Deaths of Aristotle, Demosthenes, and Diogenes |