PERICLES- TIMELINE Flashcards
504
Peloponnesian League reaches its fullest form
487/486
Archon Reforms
480/479
Persian Invasion driven back
477
Delian League established
472
Pericles is choregos for ‘Persians’ (Aeschylus)
470
Naxos wished to leave alliance
465
Revolt of Thasos
461
Athens breaks off its treaty of alliance with Sparta
460
Athens allies with Megara
458 (architecture)
Long Walls’ construction begins
458 (war)
Athens conquers Aegina
457
Spartan infantry defeats Athenians
457/456
Zeugitai become eligible for Archonships
454/453
Treasury of the Delian League moved to Athens
453
Tribute Lists begin to appear
451
Wage of Dikasts set by Pericles at 2 obols/day
447
Parthenon work begins
447/446
Spartan infantry defeats Athenians
446 (rejoin)
Megara rejoins the Peloponnesian league
446 (truce)
30 Year Peace
443/442
Thucydides of Alopece ostracised
440 (construction
‘Middle’ Long Wall
440 (revolt)
Samos revolts
437 (construction)
Work on Propylaea begins
437 (prosecution)
Pheidias prosecuted
433 (alliance)
Athens forms defensive alliance with Corcyra
433 (support)
Megara sends ships to support Corinthians against the Corcyraeans
432 (siege)
Siege of Potidaea
432 (repeal of decree)
Embassy sent to the Athenians by the Peloponnesians
432 (construction)
Propylaea and Parthenon completed
431
Peloponnesian War breaks out
431/421
‘Archidamian War’
430
Plague breaks out in Athens
429
Pericles dies
425
Wage of dikasts increased to 3 obols/day
425
‘Archanians’ performed at the Lenaea
424
Thucydides (writer) becomes general
421 (performance)
‘Peace’ first performed at the City Dionysia
421 (construction)
Work on Erechtheion begins
406
Erechtheion completed
404
End of Peloponnesian War
399
Socrates convicted by democratic court
1674 AD
Sketch of Parthenon pediment made
1687
Gunpowder explosion in the Parthenon, damaging it