Parallel Events for Pentecontaetia


Aeschylus
Sophocles
Literary/Artistic Events
Political Events
Year
Capture of Sestos
Pausanias recalled
Delian League founded
478
Cimon captures Byzantium
477
Cimon captures Eion
476
Persae Battle of Tegea
Ostracism of Themistocles
472
Death of Pausanias
Flight of Themistocles
Synoecism of Elis
471
Seven Against Thebes Siege of Naxos
467
Battle of River Eurymedon
Battle at Dipaia (Hdt. 9.35)
466
Revolt of Thasos
465
Earthquake at Sparta
464
Anaxagoras comes to Athens Second Spartan appeal to Athens
Capture of Thasos
462
Ostracism of Cimon
Ephialtes' reform of Areopagos; Ephialtes assassinated
461
Capitulation of Messenians on Mt. Ithome
460
"Miraculous year"
Athenian alliance with Megara
459
Oresteia Battle of Tanagra
Athenian alliance with Segesta
458
Battle at Oinophyta
Capture of Aegina
457
Death of Aeschylus Periplous of Tolmides
456
Greek defeat in Egypt
455
Treasure moved to Athens
Athenian alliances with Leontini and Rhegium
454
Pericles' citizenship law
30-year truce Argos and Sparta
451
Death of Cimon
Prosecution of Anaxagoras
450
Sparta declares sacred war vs Phocis
449
Beginning of building of Parthenon Revolt in Boiotia
447
Battle of Coroneia
Thirty Years' Peace
446
Thucydides son of Melesias ostracized
444
Antigone
442
Revolt of Samos and Byzantion
441
Fall of Samos
439
Euripides' Alcestis
438
Work begun on Propylaia
437
Death of Empedocles
436
War between Corinth and Corcyra
435
Athenian alliance with Corcyra
433
Rebellion of Poteidaia
432
Beginning of Peloponnesian war
431

Parallel Events of the Peloponnesian War period


Last updated: 19 March 2007
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