Dates Pt. 5; Classical Period pt. 2

Question 1

Jason of Pherae tyrant of Thessaly. Plato founds his Academy.

Answer 1

385 BCE

Question 2

The Spartan Phoebidas captures the citadel of Thebes by treason and installs a pro-Spartan party

Answer 2

383 BCE

Question 3

Sparta forces the Chalcidian League to disband, and Mantinea to return to its constituent villages.

Answer 3

382 BCE

Question 4

Thebans Pelopidas and Epaminondas free Thebes with Athenian aid.

Answer 4

379 BCE

Question 5

Spartans botch attempt to take Piraeus, Sacred Band of Thebes formed. Chabrias the Athenian bluffs a Spartan army into retreating.

Servian Walls built in Rome.

Answer 5

378 BCE

Question 6

Mausolus appointed satrap of Caria. Second Athenian Empire founded to ward off Spartan aggression.

Answer 6

377 BCE

Question 7

Sparta and Thebes at war, Thebes wins B. of Tegyra.

Answer 7

375 BCE

Question 8

Thebes wins B. of Leuctra, Arcadian League formed, Megalopolis founded.

Answer 8

371 BCE

Question 9

Jason of Pherae assassinated.

Answer 9

370 BCE

Question 10

Epaminondas reestablishes Messenia. Athens allies with Sparta

Answer 10

369 BCE

Question 11

G. Licinius Stolo passes the Leges Liciniae Sextiae limiting the ager publicus that can be held and allowing plebs to be consuls.
- Possible date for the founding of the Aetolian League

Answer 11

367 BCE

Question 12

Military tribuneship with consular power abolished. Offices of Praetor and Curule Aedile established.

Answer 12

366 BCE

Question 13

Pelopidas killed in Thessaly

Answer 13

366 BCE

Question 14

Epaminondas killed at Second B. of Mantinea. Theban Hegemony ends. Mausolus rebels from Persia.

Answer 14

362 BCE

Question 15

Agesilaus II dies in Crete.
- T. Manlius Torquatus defeats a Gaul in single combat.

Answer 15

360 BCE

Question 16

Philip II becomes king of Macedon.

Answer 16

359 BCE

Question 17

Philip takes Amphipolis. Chios, Rhodes, and Kos revolt from Athens, with help of Mausolus. Athenian Social War begins. Chabrias killed in battle at Chios, Chares in charge of Athenian defense.

Answer 17

357 BCE

Question 18

Third Sacred War begins. Phocis seizes Delphi. Philip takes Potidaea. Athenian Chares loses B. of Embata to Allies.

Answer 18

356 BCE

Question 19

Athens loses Social War, allies free. Eubulus becomes chief commissioner of the Theoric Fund.

Answer 19

355 BCE

Question 20

Philip intervenes in Sacred War, defeats Phocians, stopped at Thermopylae by Athens. Demosthenes delivers the First Philippic either now or in the next year.

Answer 20

352 BCE

Question 21

While fighting a Gaul in single combat, M. Valerius Corvus is aided by a raven.

Philip besieges Olynthus, Chares and Charidemus command the city.

Answer 21

349 BCE

Question 22

Philip takes Olynthus.

First treaty between Carthage and Rome made.

Answer 22

348 BCE

Question 23

Demosthenes and Aeschines lead a peace envoy to Philip. Plato dies, Aristotle leaves for Macedon.

Traditional date for introduction of coinage at Rome.

Answer 23

347 BCE

Question 24

Peace of Philocrates made between Athens and Philip. Athens renounces Amphipolis. Philip occupies Thermopylae, ends Sacred War. Macedon member of the Amphictyonic Council. Phocis destroyed. Demosthenes delivers On the Peace (supporting inaction).

Answer 24

346 BCE

Question 25

Timoleon frees Syracuse from tyranny. Demosthenes delivers the Second Philippic.

Answer 25

344 BCE

Question 26

Rome defends Capua from Samnites, beginning the First Samnite War (343-41). Demosthenes tries, and fails, to charge Aeschines with treason (Against Timarchus-Aeschines, valuable for laws it mentions).

Answer 26

343 BCE

Question 27

Demosthenes delivers Third Philippic. Athens renounces Peace of Philocrates. Rome wins First Samnite War.

Answer 27

341 BCE

Question 28

Latin War (340-38) begins, Rome defeats Latins at B. of Mt. Vesuvius, Capua defects to Rome. T. Manlius Torquatus kills his own son for disobedience

Answer 28

340 BCE

Question 29

B. of Chaeronea. Philip forms the League of Corinth. Philip disowns Olympias, Alexander. - Latin war ends with the dissolution of the Latin League, citizenship rights for Latins.

Answer 29

338 BCE

Question 30

Philip II assassinated. Alexander king in Macedon.

Answer 30

336 BCE

Question 31

Alexander subdues the Greeks, razes Thebes.

Answer 31

335 BCE

Question 32

Alexander crosses to Asia, wins B. of Granicus.

Answer 32

334 BCE

Question 33

Alexander wins the B. of Issus, besieges Tyre.

Answer 33

333 BCE

Question 34

Alexander conquers Egypt, founds Alexandria.

Answer 34

332 BCE

Question 35

Alexander wins B. of Gaugamela.

Answer 35

331 BCE

Question 36

Demosthenes delivers On the Crown. Aeschines leaves for Rhodes. Darius III, last of his name, is slain by Bessus. Conspiracy of Philotas. Parmenion killed.

Answer 36

330 BCE

Question 37

Alexander kills Black Clietus.

Answer 37

328 BCE

Question 38

The Romans evict a Samnite garrison from Neapolis precipitating the Second Samnite War the following year. Conspiracy of the Pages led by Hermolaus. Alexander kills Callisthenes.

Answer 38

327 BCE

Question 39

Alexander enters India, wins B. of Hydaspes. Alexander turns home. Second Samnite War (326-04) begins.

Answer 39

326 BCE

Question 40

Hephaistion dies. Harpalus flees to Athens. Demosthenes is betrayed by Hypereides, and exiled.

Answer 40

324 BCE