NOTE: Where no city is named for a person, “of Athens” is understood.
B.C. |
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478: |
Pindar of Thebes, poet |
478-67: |
Hieron I dictator at Syracuse |
478: |
Pythagoras of Rhegium, sculptor |
477: |
Delian Confederacy founded |
472: |
Polygnotus, painter; Aeschylus’ Persae |
469: |
Birth of Socrates |
468: |
Cimon defeats Persians at the Eurymedon; first contest between Aeschylus and Sophocles |
467: |
Bacchylides of Ceos, poet; Aeschylus’ Seven against Thebes |
464-54: |
Helot revolt; siege of Ithome |
463-31: |
Public career of Pericles |
462: |
Ephialtes limits the Areopagus; pay for jurors; Anaxagoras at Athens |
461: |
Cimon ostracized; Ephialtes killed |
460: |
Empedocles of Acragas, philosopher; Aeschylus’ Promotheus Bound |
459-54: |
Athenian expedition to Egypt fails |
458: |
Aeschylus’ Oresteia; the Long Walls |
456: |
Temple of Zeus at Olympia; Paeonius of Mende, sculptor |
454: |
Delian treasury removed to Athens |
450: |
Zeno of Elea, philosopher; Hippocrates of Chios, mathematician; Callimachus develops the Corinthian order; Philolaus of Thebes, astronomer |
448: |
Peace of Callias with Persia |
447-31: |
The Parthenon |
445: |
Leucippus of Abdera, philosopher |
443: |
Herodotus of Halicarnassus, historian, joins colonists founding Thurii (Italy); Gorgias of Leontini, Sophist |
442: |
Sophocles’ Antigone; Myron of Eleutherae, sculptor |
440: |
Protagoras of Abdera, Sophist |
438: |
Pheidias’ Athene Parthenos; Euripides’ Alcestis |
437: |
ThePropylaea |
435-34: |
War between Corinth and Corcyra |
433: |
Alliance of Athens and Corcyra |
432: |
Revolt of Potidaea; trials of Aspasia, Pheidias, and Anaxagoras |
431-04: |
Peloponnesian War |
431-24: |
Euripides’ Medea, Andromache, and Hecuba; Sophocles’ Electra |
430: |
Plague at Athens; trial of Pericles |
429: |
Death of Pericles; Cleon in power; Sophocles’ Oedipus the King |
428: |
Revolt of Mytilene; Euripides’ Hippolytus; death of Anaxagoras |
B.C. |
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427: |
Embassy of Gorgias at Athens; Prodicus and Hippias, Sophists |
425: |
Siege of Sphacteria; Aristophanes’ Acharnians |
424: |
Brasidas takes Amphipolis; exile of Thucydides, historian; Aristophanes’ Knights |
423: |
Aristophanes’ Clouds; Zeuxis of Heraclea and Parrhasius of Ephesus, painters |
422: |
Aristophanes’ Wasps; death of Cleon and Brasidas |
421: |
Peace of Nicias; Aristophanes’ Peace |
420: |
Hippocrates of Cos, physician; Democritus of Abdera, philosopher; Polycleitus of Sicyon, sculptor |
420-04: |
The Erechtheum |
419: |
Lysias, orator |
418: |
Spartan victory at Mantinea; Euripides’ Ion |
416: |
Massacre at Melos; Euripides’ Electra(?) |
415-13: |
Athenian expedition to Syracuse |
415: |
Mutilation of the Hermae; disgrace of Alcibiades; Euripides’ Trojan Women |
414: |
Siege of Syracuse; Aristophanes’ Birds |
413: |
Athenian defeat at Syracuse; Euripides’ Iphigenia in Tauris |
412: |
Euripides’ Helen and Andromeda |
411: |
Revolt of the Four Hundred; Aristophanes’ Lysistrata and Thesmophoriazusae |
410: |
Restoration of the democrary; victory of Alcibiades at Cyzicus |
408: |
Timotheus of Miletus, poet and musician; Euripides’ Orestes |
406: |
Athenian victory at Arginusae; deaths of Euripides and Sophocles; Euripides’ Bacchae and Iphigenia in Aulis |
405-367: |
Dionysius I dictator at Syracuse |
405: |
Spartan victory at Aegospotami; Aristophanes’ Frogs |
404: |
End of the Peloponnesian War; rule of the Thirty at Athens |
403: |
Restoration of the democracy |
401: |
Defeat of Cyrus II at Cunaxa; retreat of Xenophon’s Ten Thousand; Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus |
399: |
Trial and death of Socrates |