Thucydides Pentecontaetia Dates

Question 1

476

Answer 1

Eion crushed

Question 2

467

Answer 2

River battle at Eurymedon in Pamphylia

Question 3

469-468

Answer 3

Naxos leaves and rejoins the league

Question 4

465

Answer 4

Revolt at Thasos (3 year siege)

Question 5

459

Answer 5

Battle of Haliae (Athens is beaten by Corinthian and Epidaurian force)

Question 6

459

Answer 6

Peloponnesian fleet beaten at Kekryphaleia

Question 7

459-458

Answer 7

Athens goes to war so Aegina and captures 70 ships ‘the first major conflict of the war’ - Buckley

Question 8

458

Answer 8

The battle of Tanagra

52 days later: Battle of Oenophyta

Question 9

457

Answer 9

Aegina surrenders

Question 10

456-455

Answer 10

Tolmides burns spartan shipyards

+ Calchis (in Corynth) is captured and the Syconians are defeated

Question 11

455-454

Answer 11

Egyptian Disaster + Delian treasury moved to Athens

Question 12

453

Answer 12

Athens fails time install Orestes in Thessaly
Pericles wins a victory at Sicyon
‘The greatest number of cities’ Diodorus

Question 13

451

Answer 13

5 year truce with Sparta

Peace of Callias

Question 14

450

Answer 14

Revolts subdued in Ionia

Question 15

449-448

Answer 15

Sacred War

Question 16

447

Answer 16

Koroneia crisis - Tolmides takes it with 1000 hoplites + Boeotia regains it’s independence

Question 17

446-445

Answer 17

Euboea revolts
Megara revolts
Sparta invades Attica
30 year peace