Final Flashcards
431-421BCE
“Archidamian War”: Archidamus (Spartan) invades Attica. Athenians huddle inside city walls
480 BCE
Battles of Thermopylae and Salamis
479 BCE
Battle of Plateia
464 BCE
Cimon victorious over Persian navy in the battle of Eurymedon; end of Persian naval threat (for now.)
462 BCE
Spartan “affair of Ithome” -Cimon loses status, is ostracized
460-445 BCE
“First Peloponnesian War”
431 BCE
The affair at Corcyra, beginning of Peloponnesian War
454 BCE
Treasury of Delian League moved to Athens
451 BCE
Periclean citizenship law passed: in order to be a citizen, both parents must be citizens
447 BCE
Periclean building program: begin construction of Parthenon and Propylaia
430 BCE
The Plague at Athens. Jeremy argues that it was typhoid
428 BCE
Pericles dies
428 BCE
Revolt of Mytilene; cf. Thucydides’s “Mytilinean Debate”
425 BCE
Athenians take Spartan forces at Sphakteria; first surrender of Sparta
421 BCE
The “Peace of Nicias” which lasts for 5 years, sort of
416 BCE
Athens attacks island of Melos (a Spartan colony). Thucydides’ Melian Dialogue
415 BCE
Athens sends forces to Sicily, under leadership of ALcibiades, Lamachus, Nikias. Alcibiades wanted at home for role in “mutilation of the Hermes”
411 BCE
Oligarchic revolution at Athens; Assembly dissolved, COuncil of 400 set up, perhaps to be followed by Council of 5000.
410 BCE
Democracy restored in Athens; Sparta offers peace, Athens refuses under urging of Cleophon
406 BCE
Atheneian diaster at Arginousae; 6 of 8 generals (including Pericles’s son) put to death.
405 (?) BCE
Athenians lose final battle at Aegospotami
404-403 BCE
Reign of the Thirty Tyrants under Critias; reign of terror
403 BCE
Democracy re-established; blacnket amnesty declared