Pentecontaetia

Question 1

Pentecontaitia dates

Answer 1

479-431

Question 2

479- sestos

Answer 2

Siege of sestos
After plataea and mycale
Athenian Ionian and other troops passed through sestos and took Persian stronghold

Thucydides

Question 3

477- Delian meets

Answer 3

First Delian meeting

Thucydides- Spartans didn’t care
Diodorus-Spartans very alarmed

Come back to bias

Kleinias decree- fines for members defaulting on tribute by Athens
First stele in Athens- tribute list

Question 4

478-walls and Byzantium

Answer 4

Rebuilt walls of athens
Themistocles despite Spartan objection

Byzantium
Pausanias(s) seized Cyprus then moved into Byzantium and won
Ionians hated him and asked for Athenians to take over
They do
Kimon and aristeides in charge

Question 5

472-castyrus

Answer 5

Castyrus forced joins Delian

Question 6

Early 468 ish-eurymedon

Answer 6

Eurymedon
Naval and land battle
Delian league defeats Persians
Kimon general
Persians stopped campaigns for 10 yrs after

Plutarch- presents Kimon as humbler and foe of xerxes

Question 7

465-thasos and xerxes

Answer 7

Xeroxes dies

Thasos revolt
Athens interfereing with thasos mining and trade
Asks Sparta for help
Would have stopped by earthquake

Thucydides- believes Sparta preparing to attack but no way of establishing if this was true

Question 8

464-helots

Answer 8

Helot revolt- Thucydides life of cimon
Kimon ostracised
Sparta loses proxenos(diplomatic link)

Athens allies with Argos and both ally with Thessaly

Question 9

461-Megara moves

Answer 9

Megara joins athens

Question 10

458-walls

Answer 10

Long walls

Question 11

457-tanagra

Answer 11

Tanagra
1st Battle between Athens and Sparta
In Boeotia
Sparta won
Athens then won in oinophyta and then controled most of central Greece

Question 12

446-peace

Answer 12

30 year peace
Terms: (Thucydides)
Athens gives up megarian ports and it’s peloponnesian territory
Each side keeps allies
If ally revolts and joined other treaty is broken
*allies on each side were listed
Neutral states can ally any side
Argos excluded from treaty- had one with Sparta and created one with Athens
Not allowed armed attack if either wanted arbitration

Question 13

440-Samos

Answer 13

Samos revolt
Samos vs Miletus (both Athenian allies)
Athens replaces samos oligarchy with democracy and leaves garrison
Samos requests help from Persian satrap pissuthnese
Remove garrison
Led to 9 month siege
Surrenders and forced to pay tribute

Sources:
Thucydides
Plutarch
Aristotle- samos main naval rival and Athens weakened them (increases Athens control)

Question 14

435

Answer 14

Epidamnus corcyra

Question 15

432

Answer 15

Potidaea
Negarían decree
Ambracian gulf and Aegean

Question 16

470-Naxos

Answer 16

Naxos revolt
Tries to leave Delian
Besieged

Thucydides and Plutarch give some blame for Athenian growth to allied cities as they were content to allow the Athenians to do their fighting for them

Question 17

Parts of the Corinthian complaint

Answer 17

Epidamnus Corcyra
Potidaea
Megarian decree
Aegina and ambracian gulf