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Culture: Euripides, Medea. Thucydides begins to write his History of the Peloponnesian War
Year: 430
Life of Socrates: Chaerephon possibly journeys to Delphi to ask the oracle if anyone is wiser than his friend Socrates
Life of Pericles: Demos fines Pericles and removes him from office
Life of Xenophon: Birth of Xenophon
History: Plague in Athens
Culture: Euripides, The Children of Herakles
Constructions, sculptures and statues: Temple of Ares
Chalkotheke precinct
Great steps west of the Parthenon
Stone funeral reliefs reappear inAthens
Construction of South Stoa llissostemple
Year: 420s
Constructions, sculptures and statues: Shrine of Athena Hygiela
Year: 429
Life of Socrates: Socrates returns to Athens from Potidaea
Life of Pericles: Pericles re-elected Death of Pericles
History: Surrender of Potidaea
Culture: Dramatic date of Plato, Charmides (May)
Year: 428
History: Island of Lesbos, led by the city of Mytilene, rebels against Athens
Culture: Euripides, Hippolytus
Year: 427-425/4
Constructions, sculptures and statues: Building of Temple of Nike on Acropolis (second phase)
Year: 427
Life of Plato: Birth of Plato
History: Capture of Mytilene by Athens and execution of rebels
Year: 426
History: Earthquake in Athens - affects buildings in Kerameikos
Year: 425
History: Athenians capture Sphacteria and Pylos
Culture: Euripides, Andromache Aristophanes, Achamians
Constructions, sculptures and statues: Erection of the Eponymoi Construction of the Stoa of the Hermes Diateichisma
Year: 425-400
Constructions, sculptures and statues: Construciton of the Stoa of Zeus
Eleutheorios Rebuilding of the Sanctuary of The Twelve Gods
Old Bouleuterion changed into Metroon and archive room
Construction of the New Bouleuferion
Construction of the Argyrokopeion
Votive offerings left at the Crossroads enclosure
Law-courts in Agora
Dionysos Eleuthereus theatre remodeled
South-west fountain house andaqueduct
Tholos repaired
Apollo Patroos sanctuary cleared?
Sanctuary of the Nyph. precinctwall?
Tritopatreion, precinct wall
Pompeion I
Year: 424
Life of Socrates: Athenians invade Boeotia: Socrates present at Athenian defeat at Delion
History: Xerxes II, King of Persia, assassinated and succeeded by Darius II Spartan general Brasidas takes Amphipolis in northern Greece
Culture: Death of HerodotusAristophanes, Knights. Dramatic date of Plato, Laches (winter)
Year: 423
History: One-year armistice between Athens and Sparta
Culture: Aristophanes’ Clouds performed at Athens. Euripides, Hecabe, Suppliant Women
Ameipsias, Konnos
Year: 422
Life of Socrates: Socrates serves at Battle of Amphipolis, where Brasidas and Cleon are both killed
Culture: Dramatic date of Xenophon, Symposium
Dramatic date of Plato, Cratylus
Aristophanes, Wasps
Year: 421
History: Peace of Nikias
Culture: Aristophanes’ Peace performed at Athens
Year: 421-416/15
Culture: Dramatic date of Plato. Critophon, Greater Hippias, Lesser Hippias
Constructions, sculptures and statues: Bronze cult statues of Hephaistos and Athena by Alkamenes
Year: 420
Constructions, sculptures and statues: Asklepieion founded and equipped on Acropolis south slope
Year: 418/7
History: Athenian-Argive force defeated at Mantinea by Sparta
Culture: Dramatic date of Plato. Phaedrus
Constructions, sculptures and statues: Neleion remodelled
Year: 417
Constructions, sculptures and statues: Euripides, Heracles, Electra
Year: 416
Life of Socrates: Birth of Socrates’ son Lamprokles
Culture: Dramatic date of Plato, Symposium
Year: 415
Life of Alcibiades: Alcibiades commands expedition to Sicily
Alcibiades accused of involvement in religioius scandals; recalled from Sicily for trial; flees to Sparta
History: Mutilation of the herms and profanation of the Mysteries in Athens
Massacre at Melos by the Athenians
Athenian expedition to Sicily
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