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Date BC |
Military |
Technology |
Political |
Science |
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500
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Eupalinos' tunnel, 1km long; Eretria jetty 700m long, 20m deep.
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Ionian Revolt (499-94 BC)
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Herakleitos fl.; Skulax fl.; b.Anaxagoras
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d. Pythagoras
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495
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Anchor with flukes
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b. Sophokles (496)
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490
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Persians invade Greece; X Marathon
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Shear-leg cranes in common use
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d. Hekataios; b. Zeno of Elea
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Aiskhulos' Suppliants (492)
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485
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Silver bonanza at Laurion
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b. Herodotos (484)
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480
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Persians invade Greece; Carthaginians invade Sicily. XX Artemision, Thermopylae, Salamis, Himera
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Athos canal completed (481); prosthetics made
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Agatharkhos fl. Parmenides fl.; d. Xenophanes; Anaxagoras at Athens
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475
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Bacchylides fl.
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470
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b. Sokrates (469)
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Aiskhulos' Persians (472) Seven against Thebes (467)
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465
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X Eurymedon (467)
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b. Theodoros
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Meteorite fell near Aegospotami; earthquake in Sparta (464)
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460
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Linear perspective for stage scenery
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Ephialtes' reforms (461)
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Demokedes fl.
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b. Thucydides; b. Lusias (458); Aiskhulos' Oresteia (458)
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455
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Philolaos fl.
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b. Aristophanes (457); d. Aiskhulos
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450
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Alkmaion fl.; Archelaos fl.
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445
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Parthenon begun (447)
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Empedokles fl.; b. Antisthenes
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d. Pindar (446); Sophokles' Ajax (447)
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440
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Indirect lost wax process for casting bronze
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b. Andokides (440); Sophokles' Antigone (442)
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435
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Leukippos fl.
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b. Isokrates (436)
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430
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Start of Peloponnesian War (431)
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d.Perikles (plague) (429)
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Meton's calendar scheme adopted in Athens (432); d.Anaxagoras (428); b. Plato (428)
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Solar eclipse 3 Aug 431; Euripides' Medea; Plague in Athens; Sophokles' Oidipous Rex (430); b. Xenophon
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425
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Thucydides loses Amphipolis to Brasidas (424); tried; writes History of the Peloponnesian War in exile
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The winch used to reduce broken limbs; Thebans use a flame-thrower at X Delium
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d. Zeno of Elea; Hippokrates of Cos fl. Antiphon fl; Hippokrates of Khios fl.; Euktemon fl.
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Solar eclipse 21 March 425; d. Herodotos. Aristophanes' Acharnians (425) Knights (424) Clouds (423)
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420
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Cult of Asklepios introduced at Athens
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Aristophanes' Wasps (422) Peace (421); b. Isaios (420)
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415
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Sicilian expedition (415-3); Athenian siege of Syrakuse (414)
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Mutilation of the Herms and Profanation of the Eleusinian Mysteries
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b. Theaitetos
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Aristophanes' Birds (414); Sophokles' Elektra (c.415) Women of Trachis (413)
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410
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Cranes on ships (D.S. 13.78-9)
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Oligarchic regimes at Athens (411)
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Demokritos fl.; b. Eudoxos (408); b. Speusippos (408)
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d. Antiphon (411). Aristophanes' Lysistrata (411) Thesmophoriazusai (411); Sophokles' Philoktetes and Oidipous at Kolonus (409)
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405
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X Arginousai (406); Athenian defeat in P. War (404)
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Complex pebble mosaics (Olynthus)
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Trial of the Generals (406). 30 Tyrants at Athens (404)
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Ekphantos fl.
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d. Euripides (406); d. Sophokles (406); Aristophanes' Frogs (405)
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400
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Expedition of the 10,000
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First crossbow (gastraphetes, belly-bow) at Syrakuse
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Restoration of democracy at Athens (403)
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b. Diogenes; Ktesias fl. d.Sokrates (execution, 399)
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Winter of 400/399 seven feet of snow fell on Rome (Dio.Hal. 12.8).
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395
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Accession of Amyntas III (393)
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b. Xenokrates (396)
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b. Aiskhines (393)
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390
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Korinthian war (395-86)
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b. Herakleides
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Aristophanes' Ekklesiazusai (392); d.Andokides (390); b. Lukourgos (390); b. Hyperides (389); Aristophanes' Wealth (388)
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385
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Gauls sack Rome (387)
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Some foods available out of season; hairpieces (Aristophanes fr. 898 Edm.)
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b. Demosthenes (384)
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Academy founded (386). Gorgias fl.; b.Aristotle (384)
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d. Aristophanes; b.Demosthenes (384)
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