Greek Times 400-320

from Will Durant: The Story of Civilization

399-60
Agesilaus king at Sparta

397
War between Syracuse and Carthage

396
Aristippus of Cyrene and Anusthenes of Athens, philosophers

395
Athens rebuilds the Long Walls

394
Battles of Coronea and Cnidus

393?
Plato's Apology; Xenophon's Memorabilia;
Aristophanes' Ecclesiazusae

391-387
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

378-354
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

367-357
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

357-346
War between Athens and Macedonia

357-346
Exile of Dionysius II

356-346
Second Sacred War

356
Birth of Alexander the Great; burning of second temple
at Ephesus; Isocrates' On the Peace

355
Isocrates Areopagiticus

354
Assasination of Dion

353-349
The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus

351
Demosthenes' Phillippic 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

342-338
Aristotle tutor of Alexander

340
Timoleon defeats the Carthaginians 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

329-328
Alexander invades central Asia

327
Deaths of Cleitus and Callisthenes

327-325
Alexander in India

325
Voyage of Nearchus

324
Exile of Demosthenes

323
Death of Alexander; Lamian War

322
Deaths of Aristotle, Demosthenes, and Diogenes