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Birth of Pericles
495
The Persian Wars
1.) Significance to Sparta and Athens
1st 490
2nd 480
1.) Sparta emerges as dominant force in Peloponnesian League. Athens emerges as a naval power. They were allies before the war but suspicious after.
Battle of Marathon
- Persians attack Greece and Athens. Led by Darius. Athenians soundly defeat Persians. Story told by Herodotus
Silver vein found at Laurion
- Used to build fleet
Bettle of Thermopylae
480/79. Scene of the slaughter of the 300 Spartans by the Persians. Story told by Herodotus
Battle of Salamis
- During second Persian invasion led by Xerxes (son of Darius). In the straits between the island and the manland, the Athenian navy defeated the Persian fleet. Story told by Herodotus
Battle of Plataea
- During second Persian invasion led by Xerxes (son of Darius). Spartan-led victory over the land troops of Xerxes. Story told by Herodotus
Xanthippus takes Sestos and executes Persian governor and his son.
Founding of the Delian League
478/477
Ostracism of Themistocles
472/471
Pericles produces Aeschylus’s “Persians”
472
Battle of Eurymedon
468 (?)Defeat of Persians
Revolt of Thasos
465-63
Pericles prosecutes his rival Cimon
463
Reforms of Ephialtes
462/1
Ostracism of Cimon
461
Birth of Thucydides
460
First Peloponnesian War dates
460-447
Athenians take over Megara, Aegina
457: First Peloponnesian War
Athenian defeat in Egypt and Treasury of the Delian League moved to Athens
454
Pericles leads expedition against Sicyon, Acarnania
454