Greek Times 480-400

from Will Durant: The Story of Civilization

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

464-454
Helot revolt; siege of Ithome

463-431
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

459-454
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

447-43
The Parthenon

445
Leucippus of Abdera, philosopher

443
Herodotus of Halicarnassus, historian, joins colonists founding Thuru (Italy); Gorgias of Leontini, Sophist

442
Sophocles' Antigone; Myron of Eleutherae, sculptor

440
Protagoras of Abdera, Sophist

438
Pheidias' Athene Parthenos; Euripides' Alcestis

437
The Propylaea

435-434
War between Corinth and Corcyra

433
Alliance of Athens and Corcyra

432
Revolt of Potidaea;
trials of Aspasia, Pheidias, and Anaxagoras

431-404
Peloponnesian War

431-24: Euripides' Medea, Andromache, and Hecuba; Sophocles' Electra

430
Plague at Athens; trial of Pericles

479
Death of Pericles; Cleon in power;
Sophocles Oedipus the King

428
Revolt of Mytilene; Euripides' Hipplolytus;
death of Anaxagoras

427
Embassy, of Gorgias at Athens;
Prodicus and Hippias, Sophists

425
Siege of Sphacteria; Aristophanes’ Acharnians

424
Brasidas takes Amphipalis; exile of Thucydides, historian; Aristophanes' Knights

421
Aristophanes' Clouds;
Zeuxis of Heraclea and Parrhasius of Ephesus, painters

422
Aristophanes' Wasps; death of Clean and Brasidas

421
Peace of Nicias; Aristophanes' Peace

420
Hippocrates of Cos, physician; Democritus of Abdera, philosopher; Polycleitus of Sicyon, sculptor

420-404
The Erechtheum

419
Lysias, orator

418
Spartan victory at Mantinea; Eutipides Ion

416
Massacre at Melos; Euripides' Electra (?)

415-413
Athenian expedition to Syracuse

415
Mutilation of the Hermae; disgrace of Alcibiades;
Euripides' Trojan Women

414: Siege of Syracuse; Atistophanes’ 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 Aulos

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