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Lutz, Madeline
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The Groovy Greeks
Timeline
1. 525 BC pg.54 - The Persians fought at Pelusium in Egypt.
2. 430 BC pg.96 - a plague killed hundreds of Athens.
3. 415 and 413 BC pg.58 - Alcibiades and the Athenian army attacked the Spartan allies
at Syracuse (in Sicily), “but he was called back to Athens because he was charged
with ‘sacrilege’ - that’s being nasty to the gods” (The Groovy Greeks; pg. 58)
4. 413 BC pg.76-In the summer “the army of Athens was in trouble. They were trying to
beat the town of Syracuse with a siege. But one of there leaders had been killed and
the other leader, Nicias, was sick with a fever.” (The Groovy Greeks; pg. 76) They
decided to go home but as they were leaving there was an eclipse, a sign of disaster,
some said. They couldn’t agree on whether to go or stay, so Nicias and the army
waited 27 days for the next full moon, but during the wait disaster struck anyway
when they were wiped out by the Syracuse navy.
5. 360 BC pg.18 - The Greeks tricked the Trojans again by catching a Trojan man and
planned a way for the man to give the Trojan password to the guard, allowing the
Greeks to sneak in and kill the Trojan army.
6. 278 BC pg.98 - King Pyrrhus of Greece had a traitorous doctor who planned to
poison the king if the Romans were willing to pay.
7. 274 BC pg. 126 – King Pyrrhus’s neck is broken by a roof tile thrown by a peasant
watching the battle from a roof top.
8. 250 BC pg.81 – The Greeks who ruled Alexandria in Egypt during this time created
laws to help maintain the peace in the city.
9. 370-380 BC pg.84 – during this time the girls around the age of 13 from Attica, “were
sent to the Brauron temple of the goddess Artemis.” Here they are trained to be good
wives.
10. 479 AD pg.44 - Pausanius a great Spartan general helped defeat the Persians.