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478/477 BC Greeks disaffected with Pausanias
and Spartans. Athens and allies form
Delian League
c. 476 BC Delian League, led by Kimon (son
of Miltiades), takes Eion, last Persian
stronghold west of Hellespont
c. 475 BC Delian League takes Skyros
Theseus
470s BC Athenians force Karystos (on Euboia)
to stay in Delian League
468 BC Kimon defeats Persians in Asia Minor
462/461-451/450 BC Kimon ostracised
459-454 BC Failed Delian League expedition
to Egypt
450 BC Kimon dies in Cyprus. Peace with
Persia follows
470-463 BC Allies prevented from leaving
Delian League
454 BC League treasury moved to Acropolis
in Athens
Pericles, descendent of Kleisthenes
462/461 BC Pericles assists Ephialtes in
reducing power of Areopagus Council
(council of ex-arkhons). Introduces
payment for participation in juries. Other
posts will become paid
461 BC Death of Ephialtes
458/457 BC Arkhonships opened up to wider
range of citizens
Pheidias
Iktinos
Mnesikles
443 BC on Pericles dominant leader at
Athens
Peloponnesian League
460 BC Athens allies with Argos, enemy of
Sparta
460-46 BC First Peloponnesian War
430s BC Athens interfering in Corinthian
colony
431-04 BC (Second) Peloponnesian War
Late 430s BC Spartan raids on Attican
countryside
430-29 BC Plague in Athens. Pericles dies
425 BC Athenian victory at Sphakteria.
Athenians take 292 prisoners incl.
120 Spartan citizen fighters
424 BC Athenians lose territories in N. Greece
to Spartans
421 BC Peace of Nikias agreed
415-413 BC Athenian expedition to Sicily
Syracusans
411-10 BC Oligarchic rule in Athens
405 BC Athenian fleet captured in Hellespont
404 BC Surrender of Athens. End of Second
Peloponnesian War. Brief period of
oligarchic rule at Athens, followed by
restoration of democracy and legal
reforms