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  5th century BC - Search.com
466 BC - The Greek colony of Taras, in Magna Graecia, is defeated by Iapyges, a native population of ancient Apulia; Tarentine monarchy falls, with the installation of a democracy and the expulsion of the Pythagoreans.
It is consecrated by Gaius, Mettius or Marcus Curtius.
489 BC - Eudoxus of Cnidus, early mathematician and adherent of Pythagoras Dion, student of Plato and tyrant of Syracuse, was born.
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 Ancient Greece: The Spartan Hegemony: 404-371 BC
Soon the Spartan and Greek army was threatening Persia again, but the Persians destroyed the Spartan sea empire in 394 BC.
From 387 BC onwards, Agesilaus and the Spartans closely controlled political decisions in the individual city-states and stacked their governments with individuals friendly to Sparta and its interests.
Socrates, who looms large as a principle foundation of Greek philosophy, had come to the end of his years when the Age of Pericles closed.
www.wsu.edu /~dee/GREECE/SPARHEGE.HTM   (584 words)

  
  Ethics of Greek Politics and Wars 500-360 BC by Sanderson Beck
Athenian Empire 479-431 BC Athens had been destroyed in 480 BC, but after the Persian invasion was defeated the next year, the Athenians began to rebuild their walls and to make the Piraeus a major harbor, persuaded by Themistocles, who had championed their victorious navy.
Spartan Hegemony 404-371 BC According to Thucydides during the Peloponnesian War in 424 BC the Spartan general Brasidas had told the Thracians that the Peloponnesians did not seek empire but were struggling to end Athenian imperialism; Brasidas offered autonomy to Thrace, and his policy was confirmed in oaths by the Spartan ephors.
In 410 BC Segesta requested aid from Carthage in a quarrel with Selinus, and the latter was besieged by the western Phoenicians led by the elderly Hannibal who, avenging previous Carthaginian defeats in Sicily, destroyed the city and massacred 16,000, enslaving 5,000 while 2,600 escaped to Acragas.
www.san.beck.org /EC19-GreekWars.html   (19828 words)

  
  Ancient Districts of Asia Minor and Anatolia
In the 7th and 6th centuries BC the cities of Ionia were involved in a series of wars with the kings of Lydia, to whom Ionia yielded a nominal submission.
Early in the 1st millennium BC it is believed to have comprised the greater part of the Anatolian Peninsula, but at the time of the Persian invasion in the 6th century BC it was limited to the districts known as Lesser Phrygia and Greater Phrygia.
On his overthrow in 66 BC by the Roman general Pompey the Great, the kingdom was divided, the western portion being joined to the province of Bithynia in a Roman province known as Pontus and Bithynia and the eastern region being assigned to native princes.
www.ancientanatolia.com /sites/ancient_districts.htm   (3048 words)

  
  List of battles 1400 BC-AD 600
316 BC Battle of Lautulae The Romans are defeated by the Samnites.
225 BC Battle of Faesulae The Romans are defeated by the Gauls of Northern Italy.
62 BC January Battle of Pistoria The forces of the conspirator Catiline are defeated by the loyal Roman armies under Gaius Antonius.
www.starrepublic.org /encyclopedia/wikipedia/l/li/list_of_battles_1400_bc_ad_600.html   (4725 words)

  
 History of Ancient Argos
In 669 BC, he defeated the Lacedaemonians at Hysiae, which lied in the plain of Thyreas, at the borders between Lacedaemon and Argos and took control of the valley, regaining thus the lot of Temenos.
During the Corinthian war in Coronea, in 394 BC, they were defeated, but in the battle of Leuktra in 371 BC and of Mantinea in 362 BC, Argos helped Thebes to defeat the Spartans.
In 229 BC, Argos joined the Achaean League and remained an active member until 146 BC, with the exception of a brief occupation of the city by the Spartans in 225 BC and 196 BC.
www.sikyon.com /Argos/history_eg.html   (2916 words)

  
 History of Ancient Sparta
Around 1200 BC, by the marriage of the daughter of Menelaos Ermione with the son of Agamemnon Orestes, the kingdoms of Argos and Sparta were united.
At the third year of the war (429 BC) Archidamos marched towards the city of Plataea and demanded to hand him over the city and their land properties, promising that after the war everything would be restored to them.
In 394 BC, during his preparations for a big expedition in the interior of Asia Minor, he was recalled home, because Sparta felt threatened.
www.sikyon.com /Sparta/history_eg.html   (10532 words)

  
 Roman Timeline of the 4th Century BC
394 BC The Falerii surrender unconditionally to the Romans under M. Furius Camillus.
388 BC The Aequi are defeated by the Romans at a battle near Bola.
352 BC The tomb of King Mausolus of Caria, known as the Mausoleum, is built to house the remains of the dead King.
www.unrv.com /empire/roman-timeline-4th-century.php   (694 words)

  
 394 BC Encyclopedia Information @ Karr.net (Karr Network)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The allies, 3rd century BC, Hindu calendars, 308 BC and 360 BC, gather a large army at Corinth.
The Athenian general 294 BC, the 400s BC 387 BC 400s BC and 323 BC, King of 338 BC, win an overwhelming naval victory over the Spartans under v in the Wikipedia (near Thebes).
Following this victory, Conon and Pharnabazus sail along the coast of 298 BC, expelling Spartan governors and garrisons from the cities, although they fail to reduce the Spartan bases at Shaka Samvat and 391 BC.
216.92.85.60 /encyclopedia/394_BC   (648 words)

  
 History of Rome - WOI Encyclopedia Italia
Archaeological finds have confirmed that in the 8th century BC in the area of the future Rome there were two fortified settlements, the Rumi one on the Palatine Hill and the Titientes one on the Quirinal Hill, backed by the Luceres living in the nearby woods.
The traditional date of founding (753 BC) is a conventional date set much later by the historian Varro, assigning a length of 35 years to each of the seven generations corresponding to the seven mythological kings.
In the 8th century BC, these Italic speakers — Latins (in the west), Sabines (in the upper valley of the Tiber), Umbrians (in the north-east), Samnites (in the South), Oscans and others — shared the peninsula with two other major ethnic groups: the Etruscans in the North, and the Greeks in the south.
www.wheelsofitaly.com /wiki/index.php?title=History_of_Rome&redirect=no   (7866 words)

  
 Thebes - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
BC it began its struggle with Athens to maintain its position in Boeotia and in Greece.
Sparta was able to place (382 BC) a garrison in Thebes, but the city was freed by one of its great generals, Pelopidas, three years later.
This freedom was insured (371 BC) by the Spartan defeat at Leuctra by the Theban Epaminondas.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-ThebesGr.html   (437 words)

  
 Thebes Times - History Section
When the Peloponnesian War broke out in 431 BC, Thebes joined the side of Sparta and at the close of the war was eager for the destruction of Athens; it soon, however, began to dread the heightened power of its ally and joined (394 BC) the confederation against Sparta.
Their city was taken (335 BC) by Philip's son and successor, Alexander the Great, and leveled to the ground, and the entire surviving population was sold into slavery.
Although the city was rebuilt (315 BC) by King Cassander of Macedonia and prospered for a time, it had dwindled to a wretched village by the 1st century BC.
www.ellatha.com /Antigone/history.html   (338 words)

  
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Whether because of their perceived characteristics, such as beauty, wildness, ferocity, swiftness, or wisdom, or because animals played some part in the issuing city's history or makeup, many different kinds of animals were used as coin types with frequently beautiful effect.
The first coins portraying Greeks, whether living or dead, developed only after the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC His own coin portraits are therefore posthumous; the coins struck for Alexander during his lifetime in which his features are merged with those of his ancestral hero Heracles cannot be counted as true portraits.
This spectacular coin may commemorate the victory of Dionysius I over the Carthaginian general Himilcon and the deliverance of Syracuse from its Punic siege in 396 BC The reverse of the coin is signed by Euaenetus, one of the most renowned coin designers of antiquity.
www.museum.upenn.edu /Greek_World/types.html   (429 words)

  
 Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > 394 BC
Centuries: 5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC
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Though hard pressed by the Spartan invasion of his territory, Pharnabazos was able to organize the Persian fleet under the command of the mercenaries Konon of Athens and Evagoras of Salamis, and destroy the Spartan fleet at Knidos in 394 BC.
This exceptional coinage of Kyzikos was struck during this period of warfare between the Spartans and Persians.
The issue commenced after Pharnabazos received the responsibility for the management of the Achaemenid navy in 398 BC, and ended with the temporary closure of the mint in 396 BC due to the Spartan presence in the area.
www.cngcoins.com /Coin.aspx?CoinID=89223   (400 words)

  
 Ancient Greece: The Spartan Hegemony: 404-371 BC
Soon the Spartan and Greek army was threatening Persia again, but the Persians destroyed the Spartan sea empire in 394 BC.
From 387 BC onwards, Agesilaus and the Spartans closely controlled political decisions in the individual city-states and stacked their governments with individuals friendly to Sparta and its interests.
Socrates, who looms large as a principle foundation of Greek philosophy, had come to the end of his years when the Age of Pericles closed.
www.wsu.edu:8080 /~dee/GREECE/SPARHEGE.HTM   (584 words)

  
 Cnidus
At the Battle of Cnidus (394 BC), the Persian fleet, led by the former Athenian admiral Conon, utterly destroyed the Spartan fleet led by the inexperienced Peisander, ending Sparta's brief bid for naval supremacy.
The battle was a significant boost for the anti-Spartan coalition that resisted Spartan hegemony in the course of the Corinthian War.
In 394 BC, King Agesilaus II of Sparta and his army were recalled from Ionia to the Greek mainland to help fight the Corinthian War.
www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/History/Battles/Cnidus394.html   (392 words)

  
 CalendarHome.com - 4th century BC - Calendar Encyclopedia
Tollund Man, Human sacrifice victim on the Jutland Peninsula in Denmark, possibly the earliest known evidence for worship of Odin.
Philip II of Macedonia (born 382, reigned 359–336 BC).
Darius III of Persia, last King of the Achaemenid dynasty (born 380, reigned 359–330 BC).
encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /4th_century_BC.htm   (269 words)

  
 From Alexander I to Philip II
Perdikkas' son Archelaos (413-399 BC), in contrast, made the most of the Athenians' weakness and continued his grandfather's reforms.
Archelaos' death was followed by a period of dynastic crises, barbarian incursions and foreign intervention, surmounted with difficulty by his successors Amyntas III (394-370 BC) and Perdikkas III (365-360 BC).
The defeat and death on the battlefield of the latter, and the accession to the throne of his younger brother Philip II marked the beginning of Macedonia's recovery.
www.macedonian-heritage.gr /HellenicMacedonia/en/A1.2.html   (151 words)

  
 Fabia - NumisWiki, The Collaborative Numismatics Project
Cavedoni thinks it probable that it was C. Fabius, who being in 84 BC pretor in Africa, expelled thence Q, Metellus; and two years afterwards he himself, on account of his cruelty and avarice whilst pretor, was burnt alive (Liv.
But peace with Syria, having in the meanwhile been made, he landed at Crete, and rescued from captivity the Roman citizens, who were dispersed through the greater part of that island, on which account (according to Livy) he claimed and enjoyed the honours of a naval triumph.
Lucius Fabius, son of Lucius, was pro-questor in Spain to the pro-consul C. Annius, sent thither by Sulla in 83 BC, to subdue Sertonrius, of the Marian party.
www.forumancientcoins.com /numiswiki/view.asp?key=Fabia   (916 words)

  
 ARCL2001: Lecture 2
The absolute chronological framework for the material culture of Athens in the sixth and fifth centuries BC is fixed by only a handful of monuments and artefacts.
Kore from the east pediment of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, 510-500 BC.
The Marmor Parium records for 477/6 BC that statues of the tyrant slayers Harmodios and Aristogeiton were set up at Athens.
teaching.arts.usyd.edu.au /archaeology/arcl2001/lecture_2.htm   (598 words)

  
 Kingdoms of Greece - Macedonians
Of Hellenic stock, the Macedonians probably arrived in the northernmost parts of Greece on the tail-end of the Dorian influx during the period 1200-700 BC.
334 BC The post-Mycenaean colony of Lydia, in Asia Minor, is conquered.
323 BC From this point, a variety of Hellenic kingdoms are created from Alexander's vast empire, including Hellenic Egypt, the Seleucid Empire, Pergamum, and the Macedonian Kingdom of Bactria.
www.kessler-web.co.uk /History/KingListsEurope/GreeceMacedonia.htm   (138 words)

  
 Classic Panos: Orchomenos: History
Although they were among the first in Boeotia to issue their own coinage – striking coins as early as 550 BC – they did not include the emblem of the league on their coinage until 387 BC.
In 338 BC, after a whirlwind march couth into central Greece, Philip II of Macedon defeated Thebes and Athens on the plains of Chaironeia, just to the west of Orchomenos.
Orchomenos saw little activity after 338 until the Roman general Sulla once again put Chaironeia on the military map in 86 BC by defeated Archelaus, a general of Mithridates VI of Pontus, in a battle that once again was a climactic encounter of real strategic importance.
www.dartmouth.edu /~cpano/orchomenos/details/history.html   (746 words)

  
 403 BC   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Thrasybulus leads the democratic resistance to the new oligarchic government, known as the Thirty Tyrants, that the victorious Spartans have imposed on Athens.
Thrasybulus is helped by Lysias, the Athenian orator, in arguing the case against the oligarchy.
Andocides, Athenian orator and politician, who had been implicated in the mutilation of the Herms on the eve of the departure in 415 BC of the Athenian expedition against Sicily, returns from exile under the general amnesty.
www.tocatch.info /en/403_BC.htm   (323 words)

  
 History of Money - Stocks and Bonds - Banknotes
Pythius, who operates throughout western Asia Minor at the beginning of the 5th century BC, is the first banker in the area of Greece and Asia Minor of whom we have records.
During his reign he deliberately mints far more coins than required for the immediate needs of his kingdom, probably to support the campaign against Persia that he was planning before his assassination.
Among these coins is the golden stater celebrating his triumph in the chariot race in the Olympics in 356 BC - an early example of the use of coins as propaganda.
www.scripophily.com /chrono1.html   (1584 words)

  
 Battles
The Battle of Cumae 474 BC The Battle of the Eurymedon c.
The Battle of Elleporus 389 BC The Battle of Tegyra 385 BC The Battle of Naxos 376 BC The Battle of Leuctra 371 BC in central Greece
The Battle of Mantinea 362 BC The Battle of Tamynae 349 BC Munn, Mark H., The Defense of Attica: The Dema Wall and the Boiotian War of 378-375 B.C. Berekeley: University of California Press, 1993.
www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/History/Battles/Battles.html   (1229 words)

  
 History - RENOWNED HOMOPHILES OF THE GREEK ANTIQUITY
HIERON, king of Syracuse 478-467 BC, was a high-minded and noble prince, protector of the arts and science; at his court he gathered the most famous poets of the time, such as Pindar, Aeschylus, Simonides, Bacchylides.
SOPHOCLES (496-406 BC), the poetic representative of the classical age of Athens, was always ready to succumb to the charm of boys.
To all appearances the relationship between the two poets remained amourous and sexual long after the younger one had passed the age up to which this was regarded as becoming, and therefore the comedian Aristophanes made them the butt of gross jokes.
androphile.org /preview/Library/History/greek_gay/greeks.html   (2076 words)

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