Parallel Events for Peloponnesian War Period


Euripides
Aristophanes
Literary Events
Political Events
Year
Medea Archidamus invades Attica
Thebans invade Plataea
Athenians sail round the Peloponnesus
431
Plague at Athens 430
Death of Pericles
Potidaea recovered
429
Hippolytus Revolt of Mitylene 428
Heraclids (Banqueters) Oedipus Tyrannus (?) Capture of Mitylene, Plataea 427
Andromache (Babylonians) Archidamus dies
Athenian successes in NW Greece under Demosthenes
426
Hecuba Acharnians Spartans at Pylos surrender; Cleon raises tribute 425
Knights Delium: Alcibiades and Socrates
Brasidas takes Amphipolis
424
Suppliants, Cyclops Clouds Thucydides exiled 423
Hercules Wasps Protagoras comes to Athens Cleon and Brasidas die at Amphipolis 422
Peace Peace of Nicias 421
Spartan-Boeotian alliance
Boeotians raze Panactum, Athens keeps Pylos
Athenian alliance with Argos, Elis, Mantinea
420
Fighting over Epidaurus 419
Battle of Mantinea 418
Ion Ostracism of Hyperbolus 417
Agathon wins prize for tragedy Destruction of Melos 416
Trojan Women (and related plays) Sicilian Expedition
Destruction of herms, Alcibiades exiled
415
Iphigeneia among the Taurians (?) Birds Death of Lamachus; Demosthenes sails for Sicily 414
Electra Destruction of Athenian expedition in Sicily
Spartans fortify Decelea
413
Helen, (Andromeda) Sophocles' Trachiniae (?), Electra (?) Alcibiades sails for Ionia with Spartans, who ally with Persia 412
Lysistrata, Thesmophoriazousae Antiphon executed Oligarchic revolution at Athens
Alcibiades recalled to Samos
411
Athenian naval victory at Cyzicus
Democracy restored at Athens
410
Phoenissae Sophocles' Philoctetes Sparta regains Pylos 409
Orestes Euripides leaves Athens for Macedon Athens regains Byzantium 408
Alcibiades returns to Athens, but not for long 407
Euripides dies Plato begins to hear Socrates Arginusae; trial of the generals at Athens 406
Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis Frogs Sophocles dies Aegospotamoi; blockade of Athens 405
Surrender of Athens
The 30 tyrants
404
Recovery of Athens; amnesty
Return of exiles to Athens
403
Oedipus at Colonus Lysias prosecutes Eratosthenes 401
Trial and execution of Socrates Death of Agis; succeeded by Agesilaus
Conspiracy of Cinadon at Sparta
399


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