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Dramatic date of Plato, Eryxias
Year: 415-400
Constructions, sculptures and statues: Nike temple parapet
Year: 414
History: Aristophanes, Birds
Year: 413
History: Athenian army in Sicily defeated
Culture: Dramatic date of Plato, Ion
Year: 412
Life of Alcibiades: Alcibiades involved in Sparta’s decision to concentrate on the Aegean rather than the Hellespont, flees to Tissaphernes
Life of Plato: Appointed general of Athenian fleet at Samos
Year: 411
Culture: Island of Chios rebels against Athens
Year: Euripides, Ion Iphigenia among the Taurians, Helen, Cyclops
Year: 410
Life of Socrates: Birth of Socrates’ son Sophroniskos
Life of Alcibiades: Athenian fleet under Alcibiades defeats Spartans at Battle of Cyzicus
History: Demokratia reinstituted
Constructions, sculptures and statues: Sculptural decorationof Temple of Athena Nike completed
Year: 410-400
Constructions, sculptures and statues: Two projecting wings added to the Stoa Basileios (to display new copies of the law code)
Year: 409/8
Life of Xenophon: Involved in cavalry action in Ionia?
Culture: Euripides, Phoenician Women
Dramatic date of Plato, Lysis (earlyspring)
Sophocles, Philoctetes
Constructions, sculptures and statues: Work restarts on the Erechtheion
Year: 408
Culture: Euripides, Orestes
Year: 407
Life of Alcibiades: Alcibiades returns from exile Cleared of religious charges
Culture: Dramatic date of Plato, Euthydemus
Year: 406
Life of Socrates: Athenians defeat Spartan fleet at Arginusae: Socrates opposes subsequent charges against Athenian generals for failure to rescue survivors
Life of Plato: Alcibiades retires to Thrace
Life of Pericles: Possibly present at the trial of the generals?
Year: 406/5
Culture: Euripides, Iphigenia inAulis, Bacchae Death of Euripides Death of Sophocles
Constructions, sculptures and statues: Erechtheion finished
Year: 405
Life of Alcibiades: Approach to the Athenians beforeAegospotami rebuffedTakes refuge with Phamabazus
History: Death of Darius II of Persia: succeeded by Artaxerxes II
Battle of Aegospotami: Athenian fleet defeated by Sparta
Piraeus blockaded and Athens besieged by Sparta
Culture: Aristophanes’ Frogs performed at Athens
Year: 404
Life of Socrates: Socrates ordered to arrest Leon of Salamis; refuses
Socrates tries to save Theramenes?
Life of Alcibiades: Assassination of Alcibiades
Life of Plato: Plato’s uncle Critias is part of ‘the Thirty’ and Charmides one of the Peiraeus Ten.
Life of Xenophon: Xenophon fights the democratic insurgents during the civil war
History: Athens surrenders to Spartans and rule of ‘the Thirty’ imposed Dekeleian War
Constructions, sculptures and statues: Spartan forces compel Athens to destroy the Long Walls
Pnyx meeting place remodelled
Year: 403
History: Fall of ‘the Thirty’: democracy restored in Athens
Amnesty decree passed by Athenian Assembly
Year: 402
Life of Socrates: Socrates’ son Menexenos born
Culture: Dramatic date of Plato, Meno
Year: 401
Life of Xenophon: Xenophon joins expedition of the Ten Thousand to Asia
Culture: Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus staged
Dramatic date of Plato, Menexenus (winter)
Year: c.400
Life of Xenophon: In sole command of survivors; leads them to Byzantium
Constructions, sculptures and statues: Construction of the Mint Asklepeion, stoa building
South and east branches of the Great Drain
Year: 399
Life of Socrates: Trial and execution of Socrates
Life of Xenophon: Xenophon becomes a Spartan mercenary
Constructions, sculptures and statues: Dramatic date of Plato’s Theaetetus, Euthyphro (spring); Sophist, Statesman (May-June), Apology, Crito, Phaedo (June-July)
TEXT ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Grateful acknowledgement is made for permission to reproduce material from the following translations: D. Allen, from ‘A Schedule of Boundaries: An Exploration Launched from the Water-Clock of Athenian Time’ (1996), Greece & Rome (43.2), Cambridge University Press;