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THE GRECO-PERSIAN WARS
c. 550 BCE:
525-455:
496-406:
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474:
Peloponnesian League formed (Sparta & its allies)
Life of Aeschylus (playwright)
Life of Sophocles (playwright)
Ionian Greeks rebel against Persian king Darius I; Athens assists rebel Greek city
states
Sardis destroyed
Darius I leads Persians in invasion of mainland Greece; Athenians defeat Persians
at Battle of Marathon
Darius I dies, son Xerxes succeeds him
Xerxes leads Persians in invasion of mainland Greece, defeats Spartans & their
allies at Battle of Thermopylae; allied Greeks defeat Persians at Battle of
Salamis
Battle of Plataea drives remaining Persian force from Greece for good
Greek poleis form the Delian League (Athens & its allies, with treasury on Delos)
Delian League attacks Thrace and eliminates direct Persian influence in Europe
THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR
489-323:
470:
460-429:
450-388:
460-446:
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Classical Age of Greece
Socrates is born (philosopher)
Pericles is most prominent politician in Athens & de facto leader
Life of Aristophanes (playwright)
Intermittent fighting between Athens & Sparta
The “Long Walls” are built connecting Athens w/its port of Piraeus
Athens & Sparta sign Thirty Years’ Peace Treaty
Peloponnesian War breaks out
Plague hits Athens
Pericles dies
Plato is born (philosopher)
Peace of Nicias—treaty between Athens & Sparta
Alcibiades elected strategos
Ill-fated (& poorly planned) Athenian expedition to Sicily (ultimately defeated)
Alcibiades recalled to Athens to answer for Sicily disaster, refuses & defects to
Sparta
Alcibiades permitted to return to Athens (claims double-agent status)
Alcibiades deposed from generalship, possibly exiled
Lysander of Sparta defeats Athens at sea & executes 3000 Athenians
Athens surrenders to Sparta, Sparta tears down Long Walls & installs puppet
rulers (30 Tyrants) who seek revenge
Pro-democracy resistance movement comes to power & issues general amnesty
Socrates is tried and executed for opposing the war & “corrupting the youth”
Plato’s Academy is founded
Aristotle is born
Aristotle studies at Plato’s Academy