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Dates Pt. 4; Classical Period Flashcards

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Classical Period

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480-323 BCE

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The Great Invasion by Xerxes. Leonidas dies at the B. of Thermopylae. Inconclusive naval fighting at Artemisium. Athens is razed. Eurybiades defeats the Persians at Salamis. Xerxes returns East. Mardonius winters with a substantial army at Thebes.

Gelon of Syracuse defeats the Carthaginians at Himera.

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480 BCE

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Mardonius marches south. Athens razed (again). Pausanius defeats Mardonius at B. of Plataea. Greeks also win the B. of Mycale. Persian army retreats, loses all European possessions.

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479 BCE

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Athens rebuilds walls. Pausanias recaptures Byzantium from Persia. Ionians demand the Athenians lead allied navy. Spartans consent, Pausanias recalled, Athenians form Delian League.

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478 BCE

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Aristides the Just sets the taxes for the Delian League, in a fashion that lives up to his name.

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477 BCE

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Themistocles ostracized. After fleeing initially to Argos, he is eventually hounded to Persia.

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473 BCE

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Pausanias starved to death for conspiring with Persia and Helots.

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470 BCE

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Naxos attempts to leave the Delian League and is defeated.

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469 BCE

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Cimon, son of Miltiades, leads Delian League to victory at the B. of Eurymedon River. Possible date for the Peace of Callias.

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467 BCE

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Thasos attempts to leave the Delian League and is defeated.

A massive earthquake shakes Laconia and triggers a Helot revolt.

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465 BCE

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Spartans invite Cimon to help defeat Helots at Ithome. Strangely suspicious Spartans ask Athenians to return home, and they are insulted by it.

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462 BCE

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Cimon ostracized. Ephialtes reduces the power of the Areopagus to the judging of homicide. Ephialtes assassinated.

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461 BCE

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Athens makes alliance with Argos. Egypt Revolts, the Athenians send an Expeditionary Force. First Peloponnesian War begins.

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460 BCE

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Construction begins on the Long Walls. Megara allies with Athens. Spartans rescue Doris from Phocis, defeat Athenians at B. of Tanagra. Athenians defeat Boeotians at B. of Oenophyta, conquer Aegina.

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457 BCE

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Naupactus founded by Athens with escaped Helots from Ithome. Aeschylus dies.

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455 BCE

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The Athenian Expeditionary Force in Egypt is totally destroyed.

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454 BCE

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452: A Board of Ten given full power in Rome to create laws (supposedly on the model of Athens).

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452 BCE

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Cimon returns from exile, defeats Persians at Cyprus. Five year truce between Athens and Sparta. Possible date for Peace of Callias.

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451 BCE

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The Twelve Tables promulgated. The Board of Ten forced to resign by the Second Secession of the Plebs.

Cimon dies while fighting the Persians on Cyprus. Second Sacred war pits Athens and Phocis against Sparta and Delphi (Athens wins in the following year). Pericles in control in Athens.

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449 BCE

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Boeotians win B. of Coronea against Athenians. Work begins on the Parthenon.

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447 BCE

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Sparta invades Attica, Megara and Euboea revolt. Athens gives up Megara, ends First Peloponnesian War. Spartan King Pleistoanax exiled for bribery.

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446 BCE

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Thurii, a pan-Hellenic colony in S. Italy spearheaded by Athens, is founded.

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443 BCE

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Thucydides ostracized. Pericles has no major political opponents for the rest of his life.

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442 BCE

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Samos revolts from Athens. Crushed.

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440 BCE

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Athens settles Amphipolis

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437 BCE

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Corcyra allies with Athens against Corinth. Athenians send ten ships with Lacedaimonius (son of Cimon) to B. of Sybota.

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433 BCE

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Potidaea revolts, Peloponnesian League appeals to Sparta, Spartans vote for war against Athens

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432 BCE

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Peloponnesian War begins. Thebes assaults Plataea. Athens takes Aegina.

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431 BCE

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Plague in Athens. Potidaea surrenders.

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430 BCE

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Pericles dies. Spartans besiege Plataea. Phormio wins great naval victories at Patrae and Naupactus.

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429 BCE

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Mytilene revolts. Pleistoanax recalled at the behest of the Pythia.

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428 BCE

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Mytilene and Plataea both fall. Corcyra in stasis.

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427 BCE

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Athenian Demosthenes defeated in Aetolia, Spartans found Heraclea in Trachis.

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426 BCE

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Demosthenes fortifies Pylos, Athenian Cleon captures Spartans at Sphacteria.

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425 BCE

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Spartan Brasidas marches to Thrace, captures Amphipolis. Athenians defeated by Thebans at B. of Delium.

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424 BCE

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Brasidas and Cleon both killed at inconclusive B. of Amphipolis. Peace of Nicias made.

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422 BCE

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Argos allies with Athens, loses First B. of Mantinea to Sparta.

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418 BCE

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Melos taken by Athens, Sicilian Expedition launched. Herms defiled, Alcibiades recalled, flees to Sparta

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415 BCE

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Spartans take Decelea (on Alcibiades’s advice), Athenians send reinforcements to Sicily; Spartans send Gylippus, whose presence helps turn the tide in the Syracusans’ favor.

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414 BCE

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Sicilian expedition defeated, 10,000 hoplites, 200+ ships lost. Nicias and Demosthenes killed. Spartans ally with the Persians (by 412). Alcibiades in Persia.

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413 BCE

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Coup in Athens, democracy replaced by government of 400, then 5000. Alcibiades rejoins Athenian fleet.

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411 BCE

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Athenian fleet wins B. of Cyzicus, reconciled with city government. A seventy year war begins between Carthage and Syracuse.

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410 BCE

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Alcibiades returns to Athens. Euripides leaves for Macedon

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408 BCE

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After the loss of the B. of Notium, Alcibiades is exiled once more

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407 BCE

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Athens wins the B. of Arginusae. Six of the ten generals present killed at behest of Theramenes. Dionysius ends democratic rule in Syracuse.

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406 BCE

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Athenian naval disaster at B. of Aegospotamai. Sophocles and Euripides die.

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405 BCE

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Athens surrenders, government of the Thirty installed. Thrasybulus exiled. Theramenes executed. Alcibiades assassinated. Beginning of five year revolt in Egypt

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404 BCE

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Thrasybulus restores democracy in Athens. Critias killed. Spartans (under Pausanias) withdraw from city.

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403 BCE

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The Attempt of Cyrus the Younger. Agesilaus II king in Sparta.

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401 BCE

50
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Socrates executed

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399 BCE

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Agesilaus II leads an expedition against Persia.

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397 BCE

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After a ten year siege, the Romans under M. Furius Camillus capture Veii.

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396 BCE

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With Persian funding, Thebes, Athens, Corinth, and Argos ally and war on Sparta. Corinthian War (395-87) begins. Agesilaus returns from Asia.

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395 BCE

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Leading a Persian fleet, Conon defeats the Spartans at B. of Cnidus. Spartans lose almost all Aegean and Ionian possessions. Sparta defeats allies at B. of Nemea and B. of Coronea.

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394 BCE

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Conon dies, Isocrates begins teaching rhetoric.

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392 BCE

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Iphicrates wins the B. of Lechaeum for Athens; Camillus exiled.

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391 BCE

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Brennus the Gaul captures Rome. Camillus rescues the city and proclaimed Second Founder.

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390 BCE

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Thrasybulus dies, having recaptured Byzantium, Lesbos, and the Hellespont for Athens in a two year campaign. Sparta and Persia ally to fight Athens.

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388 BCE

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Persians dictate the King’s Peace (Peace of Antalcidas). All Greek cities free. End of Corinthian War

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387 BCE

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