20-24 Blockade of Plataea (beginning of Spartan participation
in siege at 2.71-78)
Plataeans scale the wall and escape
25-35 Revolt of Mytilene
25 Spartan Salaethus on mission to Mitylene
End of year 4
26 Peloponnesian invasion of Attica
27-29 Capitulation of Mitylenians (427 BCE): out
of food, slow Spartan response
Speech of Teutiaplus of Elis to
the Spartans
30-33 Alcidas and the Peloponnesian fleet
Alcidas rejects two pieces of
good advice
Alcidas' treatment of
neutrals
Alcidas escapes Athenian fleet,
heads home
34 Athenian Paches' treachery at Colophon
35 Paches returns to Mytilene and makes
arrangements
35-50 Mytilenean Debate
37-40 Cleon's speech
41-48 Diodotus' speech
49-50 Diodotus' counsel prevails: vote,
salvation, dispositions
51 (Nicias fortifies Minoa [near Megara])
52-68 Blockade of Plataea
52 Surrender of Plataea
53-59 Speech of the Plataeans
61-67 Speech of the Thebans
68 Extinction of Plataea: executions,
disposition of the territory
69 (Transition from Peloponnesian fleet's flight from Mytilene to intervention in Corcyra)
70-85 Stasis in Corcyra
70-75 Background from fighting over Epidamnus;
Athenian intervention under Nicostratus
76-80 Alcidas, Brasidas, and Peloponnesian fleet
arrive
77-78 Sea battle
79-80 Peloponnesian inactivity and
retreat
81 Democrats at Corcyra murder enemies while
Athenian Eurymedon occupies harbor
82-84 On stasis in general
85 Eurymedon departs; activities of exiles (see
4.46-48 for the outcome)
86-90 Athens and Sicily
86-88 Athenian squadron under Laches sails for
Sicily to aid Leontini
87 [Plague returns to Athens (427 BCE)
Earthquakes and floods (426 BCE) ]
88 Devastation but no conquest of islands near
Sicily
End of year 5
89 (No Peloponnesian invasion of Attica due to
earthquake
On earthquakes and tidal waves)
90 In Sicily: internal strife and Athenian
operations; surrender of Messina to Athens
91-98 Athenian and Spartan operations at home
91 Demosthenes sent round the Peloponnesus and
Nicias sent to Melos (unsuccessful)
[Melos a Spartan colony]
Nicias goes to Tanagra in Boeotia: Athenian
victory
92-93 Spartan colony at Heraclea in Trachis and
its fate
Faults of Lac. governors cause
failure
94-98 Demosthenes arrives in NW Greece
94 Arrival at Leucas, decision to
attack Aetolia
A bit of
anthropology
95-98 Defeat and retreat;
Demosthenes stays in the area
96 Aside on the
death of Hesiod
99 Athens and Sicily
Athenians defeat Locrians in Sicily
100-2 Athenian and Spartan operations at home
Spartans send forces to aid Aetolia against Naupactus, which Demosthenes
and Acarnanians defend
103 Athens and Sicily
Athenians remain in Sicily
104 (Purification of Delos
Peisistratus and Polycrates
Delian games and Homeric evidence)
105-14 Athenian and Spartan operations at home
105-9 Eurylochus (Lac.) at Olpae
Demosthenes and allies victorious
Peloponnesians sneak away from
their allies
110-14 Night attack; rout of Ambraciot forces
Treaty between Acarnanians and
Ambraciots
Demosthenes can safely return to
Athens
115-16 Athens and Sicily
Athenian reinforcements sent to Sicily, but
make no progress
Eruption of Mt. Etna, and previous
eruptions
End of year 6
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