| B.C. |
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| 525 |
Birth of Aeschylus. |
| 510 |
Expulsion of the Peisistratidae. Democratic constitution of Cleisthenes. |
| 500 |
Birth of Anaxagoras. |
| 499 |
Aeschylus exhibits his first tragedy. |
| 497 |
Death of Pythagoras (?) |
| 495 |
Birth of Sophocles. |
| 490 |
Battle of Marathon. |
| 485 |
Xerxes succeeds Dareios. |
| 484 |
Birth of Herodotos. Aeschylus gains the prize in tragedy. |
| 480 |
Athens taken by Xerxes. Battle of Salamis. Sophocles leads the chorus of victory. Birth of Euripides. |
| 479 |
Athens taken by Mardonios. |
| 477 |
Commencement of Athenian Supremacy. |
| 476 |
Bones of Theseus discovered in Skyros. |
| 472 |
The Persæ of Aeschylus. |
| 471 |
Birth of Thucydides. |
| 468 |
Sophocles gains his first victory in tragedy. The Triptolemos. Birth of Socrates. |
| 467 |
Death of Simonides. |
| 466 |
Battle of Eurymedon. |
| 461 |
Ostracism of Kimon. Ascendancy of Pericles. The Oresteian Trilogy of Aeschylus. |
| 456 |
Death of Aeschylus. Herodotos recites his history at the Olympian Games (?) |
| 455 |
Euripides appears as a writer of tragedies. |
| 450 |
Anaxagoras retires from Athens after a residence of thirty years. |
| 448 |
Sacred war between Delphians and Phocians. |
| 441 |
Euripides gains the first prize. |
| 440 |
Sophocles exhibits the Antigone, and is made one of the ten Athenian generals in the war with Samos. Meets Herodotos at Samos. |
| 439 |
Sophocles returns to Athens. |
| 432 |
Prosecution of Anaxagoras, Aspasia, and Pheidias. |
| 431 |
Commencement of the Peloponnesian War. |
| 430 |
Plague at Athens. Oedipus the King (?) Oedipus at Colonus (?) |
| 429 |
Birth of Plato. |
| 428 |
Death of Anaxagoras. |
| 427 |
Ascendency of Cleon. Aristophanes gains his first prize for comedy. |
| 424 |
The Knights of Aristophanes. |
| 423 |
The Clouds of Aristophanes. |
| 421 |
Peace of Nikias. |
| 419 |
The Peace of Aristophanes. |
| 416 |
Tragic prize gained by Agathon. |
| 415 |
Tragic prize gained by Archippos. Sicilian Expedition. Mutilation of the Hermae busts. Banishment of Alkibiades. |
| 413 |
Destruction of Athenian army and fleet in Sicily. Sophocles appointed as member of constituent committee. |
| 411 |
Revolution at Athens. Council of the Four Hundred. Sophocles assents. Recall of Alkibiades. |
| 409 |
The Philoctetes of Sophocles. |
| 406 |
Battle of Arginusae. Death of Euripides. Death of Sophocles. |
| 401 |
The Oedipus at Colonus reproduced (?) by the younger Sophocles. |
