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Year: 457
History: Zeugitae eligible for archonship
Year: 456
Culture: Death of Aeschylus
Year: 454/3
Life of Pericles: Pericles campaigns in the Gulf of Corinth
History: Greeks in Egypt defeated by Persian satrap Megabyzus. Treasury of the Delian League moved to Athens
Year: 451/0
Life of Pericles: Periclean legislation to restrict Athenian citizenship to those with two Athenian parents
History: Kimon returns from ostracism
Year: before 450
Constructions, sculptures and statues: Agora planted with plane-trees
Year: 450
Life of Alcibiades: Birth of Alcibiades
History: Expedition to Cyprus Death of Kimon
Culture: Birth of Aristophanes. Dramatic date of Plato, Parmenides (Aug)
Constructions, sculptures and statues: Academy rearranged
Year: 450s
Life of Pericles: Pericles proposes dikasts should be paid
Constructions, sculptures and statues: Construction of the Desmoterion Poros building Square stone bases socketed to hold temporary wooden posts on the Pan-Athenaic Way installed - starting posts for races
House of Simon
House of Menon
Houses C and D (house/workshops east of the Street of Marble Workers) Construction of the Synestrion
Year: after 450
Constructions, sculptures and statues: Strategelon
Year: 450-445
Constructions, sculptures and statues: Temple of Athena Nike authorised
Year: 449
Life of Pericles: Pericles proposes building programme
History: Peace of Callias - end of war with Persia
Year: 449-444
Constructions, sculptures and statues: Construction of Hephaisteion on Kolonos Agoraios
Year: 449
History: Renewed hostilites with Sparta
Year: 447/6
Life of Pericles: Pericles commands the expedition to put down the revolt in Euboea
History: Revolt of Megabyzus, Persian satrapof SyriaBattle of Coronea
Culture: Death of the poet Pindar
Constructions, sculptures and statues: Building of Parthenon begins
Workshop Construction of Parthenon terrace
Periclean add-on to south citadel wall
Year: 445
History: End of First Peloponnesian War Thirty-year peace treaty between Athens and Sparta sworn
Culture: Prometheus Bound
Year: 443/2
Life of Pericles: Pericles elected one of Athens’ strat-egoi
History: Thucydides, son of Melesias, ostracised
Constructions, sculptures and statues: Public baths
Year: 442
Culture: Sophocles, Antigone
Constructions, sculptures and statues: Parthenon frieze carved
Year: 441
Life of Pericles: Pericles supports Athens’ intervention in the conflict between Samos and Miletos
History: Revolt of Samos
Year: 440
Life of Socrates: Socrates serves in Samian campaign?
History: Athens besieges Samos. Legislation prohibits certain kinds of comic abuse
Constructions, sculptures and statues: Odeion of Pericles
Year: 438
History: Pheidias leaves Athens after being accused of embezzlement
Culture: Euripides, Alcestis
Constructions, sculptures and statues: Statue of Athena by Pheidias dedicated in Parthenon
Year: 437-42
Constructions, sculptures and statues: Construction of Propylaia on Acropolis (never finished). Architect:
Mnesikles
Athena Nike bastion remodelled
Artemis Brauronia sanctuary remodelled
Year: 437/6
History: Comic-abuse legislation repealled Founding of Amphipolis
Constructions, sculptures and statues: Athens waterworks, public project
Year: 435
History: Athens concludes defensive pact with Corcyra
Constructions, sculptures and statues: Construction of Erechtheion (finished 395)
Year: c.434
Constructions, sculptures and statues: Demeter and Kore sanctuary, precinct wall and entrance?
Year: 433
History: Treaty between Athens and Corcyra
Year: 432
Life of Socrates: Siege of Potidea by Athens begins: Socrates serves there
History: Revolt of Potidea
Culture: Dramatic date of Plato’s Protagoras, Alcibiades (Second Alcibiades)
Constructions, sculptures and statues: Parthenon completed
Year: 431
Life of Socrates: Outbreak of Peloponnesian War Sparta invades Attica
Life of Pericles: Pericles gives his funeral