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	MSN Encarta - Pericles
		bc), Athenian statesman, so influential in Athenian history that the period of his power is called the Age of Pericles.
		Throughout his life he was conspicuous for his dignity and aloofness, but his eloquence, sagacity, uprightness, and patriotism won recognition from the majority of citizens.
		Under the Delian League, established in defense against the Persians, the Athenians created a great naval empire and embraced, as equal or subject allies, nearly all the larger islands of the Aegean Sea and many cities to the north.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761569841/Pericles.html (402 words)

	Phormio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Later in 432 BC he shared command of the Athenian fleet with Thucydides and Hagnon against Samos.
		In 430 BC he led the Athenian fleet sent to help Ambracia and Acarnania at the Battle of Potidaea.
		Phormio defeated the Corinthian fleet at the Battle of Naupactus in 429 BC, trapping them in the narrow strait and capturing twelve of their ships.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phormio (267 words)

	Classical Greek History Timeline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		433 BC Sparta and the Peloponnesian League is established as a counter to the Athenian-dominated Delian League.
		429 BC Pericles, leader of Athens, dies of plague.
		332 BC Alexander goes to Egypt, founds the city of Alexandria, is declared a son of Amon, and becomes the ruler of Egypt.
	www.tccc.cc.nc.us /swood/251/ClassicalGreekHistoryTimeline.htm (1725 words)

	wiki/429 BC Definition / wiki/429 BC Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Battle of Chalcis The Battle of Chalcis took place in 429 BC between Athens and the Chalcidians and their allies, in the early part of the Peloponnesian War.
		495 BC - 429 BC, Greek : Περικλής) was an influential and important leader of Athens during the Athenian Golden Age (specifically, between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars), from the Alcmaeonidae family.
		The period from 461 BC to 379 BC is sometimes known as "The Age of Pericles".
	www.elresearch.com /wiki/429_BC (741 words)

	Athens -> History on Encyclopedia.com 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The powerful fleet also enabled Athens to gain hegemony in the Delian League, which was created in 478-477 BC through the confederation of many city-states; in succeeding years the league was transformed into an empire headed by Athens.
		During the time of Pericles (443-429 BC) Athens reached the height of its cultural and imperial achievement; Socrates and the dramatists Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides were active.
		In 403 BC the Thirty Tyrants were overthrown by Thrasybulus, and by 376 BC Athens again had a fleet, had rebuilt the Long Walls, had re-created the Delian League, and had won a naval victory over Sparta.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/athensgr_history.asp (1831 words)

	Encyclopedia: Fifth century BC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Aeschylus of Athens, playwright (525 - 456 BC).
		Sophocles of Athens, playwright (496 - 406 BC).
		Socrates of Athens, philosopher (470 - 399 BC).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Fifth-century-BC (170 words)

	BBC - Schools - Ancient Greece Timeline
		The first shows details of the period from 800 BC until the end of the Greek empire in 146 BC.
		The second timeline shows the period from 1000 BC to the present day.
		490 and 480 BC Greeks defeat Persian invaders at the battles of Marathon (490 BC)and Salamis (480 BC).
	www.bbc.co.uk /schools/ancientgreece/timeline/index.shtml (203 words)

	Ancient Drama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He soon had imitators, and in 534 BC a contest in tragedy was instituted at an Athenian festival held in honor of Dionysus, the god of wine, fertility, and revelry.
		His seven surviving plays, three of which constitute the only extant trilogy, the Oresteia (458 BC), are richly ambiguous inquiries into the paradoxical relationship between man and the cosmos, in which men are made answerable for their acts, yet recognize that these acts are determined by the gods.
		With the defeat of Athens by Sparta in 404 BC, Old Comedy disappeared; the new authorities would not permit the pointed satire and licentiousness that was at its core.
	www.geocities.com /Broadway/Balcony/7634/ancient_drama.htm (929 words)

	Peloponnesian War: 431-404 BC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		431-404 BC The Peloponnesian War was the major contest in the struggle for hegemony in Greece.
		While there have been many larger and more decisive wars in history, this war continues to fascinate because of the striking contrasts between the two major participants, Athens and Sparta, and because Thucydides made this war the subject of one of the first great pieces of historical writing.
		431 BC: Peloponnesian war begins; Athens and the Delian League vs. Sparta and the Pelopennesian League.
	www.northpark.edu /history/WebChron/Mediterranean/Peloponnesian.html (80 words)

	Ancient Greece
		Classical Period: the era the rise of the polis, of Athenian ascendancy, and of Greek architectural, literary, and artistic triumphs (700-300 BC).
		Aristophanes (457?-385 BC): greatest of the ancient comic dramatists and blistering opponent of the Peloponnesian War.
		Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC): protracted military struggle between Sparta and her allies and Athens and hers, with disastrous long-term consequences for Greek political power and culture.
	condor.depaul.edu /~dsimpson/tlove/greeks.html (874 words)

	Battle of Naupactus (429 BC) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of Naupactus was a naval battle between the Athenian fleet under Phormio and a combined Spartan and Corinthian fleet.
		It took place over the course of a week in the early part of the Peloponnesian War in 429 BC.
		The battle took place shortly after the Battle of Chalcis.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Naupactus_(429_BC) (803 words)

	PERICLES - LoveToKnow Article on PERICLES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		(490-429 Bc.), Athenian statesman, was born about 490 B.C., the son of Xanthippus and Agariste.
		His father1 took a prominent part in Athenian politics, and in 479 held high command in the Greek squadron which annihilated the remnants of Xerxes fleet at Mycale; through his mother, the niece of Cleisthenes, he was connected with the former tyrants of Sicyon and the family of the Alcmaeonidae.
		In the autumn of 429 he dieds and was buried near the Academia, where Pausanias (I5o A.D.) saw his tomb.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PE/PERICLES.htm (4506 words)

	5th century BC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Aeschylus of Athens, playwright (525 BC525 - 456 BC/).
		Sophocles of Athens, playwright (496 BC496 - 406 BC/).
		Socrates of Athens, philosopher (470 BC470 - 399 BC/).
	www.infothis.com /find/5th_century_BC (177 words)

	[ The Greeks ] - Site Index
		480 BC - Attica in Panic - the Oracle at Delphi
		440 BC - Aspasia and Pericles: A Marriage Forbidden
		429 BC - Aspasia and Pericles: Triumph to tragedy
	www.pbs.org /empires/thegreeks/siteindex/siteindex_html_c.html (320 words)

	430 BC
		Decades: 480s BC 470s BC 460s BC 450s BC 440s BC - 430s BC - 420s BC 410s BC 400s BC 390s BC 380s BC
		Years: 435 BC 434 BC 433 BC 432 BC 431 BC - 430 BC - 429 BC 428 BC 427 BC 426 BC 425 BC
		The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/43/430_BC.html (82 words)

	peri495 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		After the death of Cimon in 449 BC, Pericles became the virtual ruler of Athens.
		He temporarily fell out of favor after a plague hit Athens in 430 BC, but was quickly restored to his position as head of state.
		He became ill during the Plague of Athens, dying in 429 BC, the third year of the Peloponesian War.
	www.clas.niu.edu /persona/peri495.htm (133 words)

	THE GOLDEN AGE OF PERICLES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		His first objectives were to rebuild the temple complex of the Acropolis which had been destroyed by the Persians, and to link Athens to its lifeline, the port of Piraeus, with fortified walls designed to withstand any future siege.
		Under Pericles’ leadership (461-429 BC), Athens experienced a golden age with unprecedented cultural, artistic and scientific achievements, which had germinated in the Ionian cities in Asia Minor almost two centuries earlier.
		The major monuments, in the order in which they were built, are the temple of Athena Parthenos (the Parthenon), 447-432 BC; the Propylaea (gateway), 437-432 BC; the temple of Athena Nike, 427-424 BC; and the temple of Erechtheus (the Erechtheum), 421-405 BC.
	home.att.net /~tersip/aegean2.html (1042 words)

	Greek Timeline
		1,200 BC The Trojan War, civil war, and the fall of the Mycenean.
		480 BC Second Persian invasion of Greece, Spartans are defeated at Thermopylae, Athens is occupied by the Persians.
		443 - 429 BC Pericles is leader of Athens during the Golden Age.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/prehistory/aegean/timeline.html (213 words)

	Art Humanities -- Vocabulary lists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Perikles (or Pericles) (c.495 - 429 BC) - - Ruler of Athens from 449 to 429 BC.
		Salamis - - A narrow strait near Athens, scene of the defeat of the Persian navy in 480 BC (see city map).
		Delian League - -Confederation of Greek states, begun in 478 BC as a defensive alliance between Athens and several Ionian states for the purpose of opposing Persia.
	www.columbia.edu /~eer1/vocab.html (2527 words)

	TVM Entry Floor: Classic Period Greek Art
		In 490 BC the first Persian war ends, with the victory of the Athenian commander Miltiades at Marathon.
		The second war (480 BC) is declared by Xerxes I; after several victories and the sack of Athens, the Persians are defeated in the naval battle of Salamis.
		In 356 BC Philip II of Macedonia begins his systematic conquest of Greece, completed in 338 BC at Chaeronea.
	www.tigtail.org /TIG/M_View/TVM/E/Ancient/Greek/Greek-art/greek-4.classic.html (724 words)

	Museum of Classical Archaeology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Athenian sculptor of the 4th century BC, whose best known works are the Hermes and baby Dionysos from Olympia, and the Aphrodite of Knidos.
		Greek sculptor of the early 4th century BC who worked on the temple of Asklepios at Epidauros and on parts of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassos.
		King of the Persians from 485 to 465 BC, who spent the early part of his reign at war with the Greek cities, notably Athens.
	www.classics.cam.ac.uk /museum/glossaryp-z.html (1062 words)

	World History 500-400 BC
		- The Age of Pericles, lasted from 461 B.C. (when Pericles as a young aristocrat became the dominant politician in Athens) until 429 B.C. This was a period of expanding democracy at home and increased imperialism abroad.
		In 405 B.C., the Athenian fleet was destroyed at Aegospotami.
		In 404 B.C., the Spartans finally captured Athens and brought the war to an end.
	www.multied.com /dates/500bc.html (736 words)

	The Greeks - The History of the Acropolis *(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)*
		Its first fortifications were constructed by the Myceneans in the 13th century BC, and some of these survived until 510 BC when the tyrant Hippias was overthrown and they were torn down to prevent a return to tyranny.
		When the Acropolis was ransacked by the Persians in 580 BC, the Athenians vowed never to rebuild on it.
		However, many were not finished until after his death in 429 BC.
	www.pbs.org /empires/thegreeks/background/28a_p1.html (189 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		429 BC The Plague of Athens, during the Peloponnesian War.
		339 BC Carthage defeated on Sicily, by plague, and Timoleon of Syracuse.
		198 BC Defenders of the city of Ambracia use smoldering bird feathers to choke Roman sappers out of tunnels being dug under the city walls.
	www.txdirect.net /users/wlldggr/bio-07.html (1840 words)

	Pericles
		495?-429 BC The "glory that was Greece" reached its height in the 5th century BC, in Athens, under the leadership of the statesman Pericles.
		He opened Athenian democracy to the ordinary citizen, he built the magnificent temples and statues on the Acropolis, and he created the Athenian empire.
		Pericles was born in Athens in about 495 BC to a family of wealth and position.
	www.crystalinks.com /pericles.html (624 words)

	Selections from Pericles at conservativeforum.org
		How soever different in a private capacity, we all enjoy the same general equality our laws are fitted to preserve; and superior honours just as we excel.
		429 BC - from a eulogy for soldiers who died in the Peloponnesian War, as quoted by Thucydides
		Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
	www.conservativeforum.org /authquot.asp?ID=207 (215 words)

	Herodotus of Halicarnassus
		Since it is also known that in the summer of 429 many Athenians were killed by the plague, it may be conjectured that Herodotus was one of the victims of this disease.
		Assuming that Herodotus died between 429 and 413, it is reasonable to infer that he was born between 500 and 470.
		(In fifth century BC Greek, the word historia still meant "research"; it was Herodotus' achievement that the meaning of the word changed.) He travelled a lot in order to investigate the cities and opinions of mankind.
	www.cam-info.net /enc/herodotus.html (6301 words)

	432 BC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Years: 437 BC 436 BC 435 BC 434 BC 433 BC 432 BC 431 BC 430 BC 429 BC 428 BC 427 BC
		The Peloponnesian Wars that pit Sparta against Athens begin.
		Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse (+ 367 BC) (approximate date).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/432_BC (126 words)

	Herodotus
		The Greek researcher and storyteller Herodot or Herodotus of Halicarnassus the son of Lyxes and Dryo and the nephew of an epic poet named Panyassis, born between 500-470 BC (probably 480 BC) and died between 429-413 BC, was the world's first historian.
		In the Histories, he describes the expansion of the Achaemenid empire under its kings Cyrus the Great, Cambyses and Darius the Great, culminating in king Xerxes' expedition in 480 BC against the Greeks, which met with disaster in the naval engagement at Salamis and the battles at Plataea and Mycale.
		Herodotus wrote the first scientific history (probably between 450 – 430 BC); that is, he began by asking questions, rather than just telling what he thinks he knows.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Live/Writer/Herodotus.htm (281 words)

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