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	Phormio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Later in 432 BC he shared command of the Athenian fleet with Thucydides and Hagnon against Samos.
		In 431 BC he led 1600 Athenians against Chalcidice, along with Perdiccas of Macedon.
		In 430 BC he led the Athenian fleet sent to help Ambracia and Acarnania at the Battle of Potidaea.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phormio (267 words)

	Herodotus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He is famous for his writings on the conflict between Greece and Persia, as well as the descriptions he wrote of different places and people he met on his travels.
		The first six books end with the defeat of the Persians in 490 BC at the Battle of Marathon, which was the first setback to their imperial progress.
		The Histories end with the year 479 BC, when the Persian invaders were wiped out at the Battle of Plataea and the frontier of the Persian Empire receded to the Aegean coastline of Asia Minor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Herodotus (1211 words)

	Peloponnesian War: 431-404 BC
		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.thenagain.info /WebChron/Mediterranean/Peloponnesian.html (80 words)

	The Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Athenian armada was destroyed in 413 BC, and the captives were sold into slavery.
		In 405 BC the whole remaining Athenian fleet of 180 triremes was captured in the Hellespont at the battle of Aegospotami.
		Besieged by land and powerless by sea, Athens could neither raise grain nor import it, and in 404 BC its empire came to an end.
	www.angelfire.com /ultra/jabrams01/pelopon.html (321 words)

	Ancient Drama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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)

	Euripides
		It was not until 441 BC that he won first place, and over the course of his lifetime, Euripides claimed a mere four victories.
		He died in 406 BC, probably in Athens or nearby, and not in Macedon, as some biographers repeatedly state.
		Classicists at Oxford University are, as of June 2005, employing infrared technology - previously used for satellite imaging - to detect previously unknown material by Euripides in fragments of the Oxyrhynchus papyri, a collection of ancient manuscripts held by the university.
	www.crystalinks.com /euripides.html (553 words)

	Kerameikon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - TESTVERSION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The "inner Kerameikos" was the former "potter's quarter" of the city and the "outer Kerameikos" covers the cemetery and the also the "demosion sema" (a public burial monument) where Pericles delivered his funeral oration in 431 BC.
		A plague pit and approximately 1000 tombs from the 4th and 5th century BC were discovered during excavations for a subway station just outside the cemetery.
		Thucydides describes the panic caused by the plague, which struck Athens and Sparta in 430 BC, lasting for two years, killing a third of the population.
	www.wissen-im-web.net /wiki/Kerameikon (213 words)

	Introductory Note on Classical Greece (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The most populous city state, Athens, with an area of about 1000 square miles, had in 431 BC a population of about 310,000 (about 45,000 of whom were citizens).
		Suddenly, however, around 1400 BC the great palaces were destroyed by fire again, and, although Crete remained an important force in the Aegean, it never regained the glory of the Minoan Age.
		Around 2500 to 2000 BC large groups of Indo-European peoples moved away from the Pontic regions near the Black Sea to the west and south, arriving in Macedonia around 2200 BC.
	www.mala.bc.ca /%7Ejohnstoi/clas101/background2.htm (4505 words)

	Syracuse Expedition: 415-413 BC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		415-413 BC In 431 BC, the Spartan-led Peloponnesian League went to war against the Athenian-led Delian League in what is called the Peloponnesian War.
		In 414 BC Nicias led an attack on Syracuse and was successful in fighting outside its walls.
		The defeat of the Syracuse expedition in 413 BC was the beginning of the end for Athens.
	campus.northpark.edu /history/WebChron/Mediterranean/Syracuse.html (540 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)

	war and social upheaval: Peloponesian War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Peloponnesian war started beginning in 431 B.C. The war centered on the struggle between Athens and Sparta fvor dominance in the Greek world.
		It was in Athens that the concept of political democracy was born in 508 BC.
		A plague strikes Athens in 431 BC and Pericles dies.
	histclo.hispeed.com /essay/war/anc/aw-pel.html (2493 words)

	LATN 388/431: Julius Caesar
		After the first few weeks introducing major questions and scholarship, we will assess where the seminar members' interests are crystalizing, and start to fine-tune the remainder of the semester's program.
		431 students have different reading assignments in the Latin text.
		431 students' Latin assignments, beyond your particular Latin assignments, so that the whole seminar will be able to partake in and appreciate discussion.
	www.luc.edu /faculty/jlong1/L388L431sch.htm (490 words)

	Aeschylus (c. 525-456 BC)
		The "Father of Tragedy," Aeschylus was born in 525 B.C. in the city of Eleusis.
		Immersed early in the mystic rites of the city and in the worship of the Mother and Earth goddess Demeter, he was once sent as a child to watch grapes ripening in the countryside.
		Whatever the cause of his death, his life laid the groundwork the dramatic arts would need to flourish, and by the time of his death, there were two notable successors ready to take his place--Sophocles and Euripides.
	www.imagi-nation.com /moonstruck/clsc3.htm (706 words)

	427 BC - Wikipedia
		6th century BC - 5th century BC - 4th century BC
		Decades: 500s BC - 490s BC - 480s BC - 470s BC - 460s BC - 450s BC - 440s BC - 430s BC - 420s BC - 410s BC - 400s BC - 390s BC
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	nostalgia.wikipedia.org /wiki/427_BC (112 words)

	Archaeological find opens the pages of Ancient Greek history
		The find is stunning because these may be the very Athenian soldiers over whom the politician Pericles delivered his famous funeral oration, rendered by the historian Thucydides in his contemporaneous History of the Peloponnesian War, one of the first documents of scientific history.
		Thucydides almost certainly heard Pericles speak in 431.
		Although it is unlikely that he recorded the speech verbatim, it is widely believed that he gave an accurate accounting of the sense of the speech.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2000/feb2000/gree-f28.shtml (671 words)

	Achaimenid Persia
		The Persian Empire was founded in 550/49 BC when Kyros II, a descendant of Achaimenes, overthrew his distant relative, Astyages, the king of the Median Empire.
		He was murdered by assassins in 465 BC and succeeded by his son Artaxerxes I Makrocheir (465-424 BC).
		The heirs of Artaxerxes, Xerxes II (424-423 BC) and Dareios II Nothos (423-404 BC) were not particularly skilled rulers and their mismanagement led to a variety of revolts in Syria, Lydia and Media.
	www.seleukids.org /Persia.htm (1071 words)

	Peloponnesian War Begins: 431 BC
		431 BC The Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC) was a territorial, economic, and political conflict between the Spartan-led Peloponnesian league and the Athenian-led Delian League.
		While the war began with minor conflicts of allegiances in two expanding city-states, it inflamed a struggle for power between the two dueling leagues.
		Athens convinced neighboring city-states that Persia was still a threat, and that unity was the best option for their own protection.
	www.thenagain.info /WebChron/Mediterranean/PeloponBegin.html (682 words)

	The Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC) (from ANCIENT GREECE) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Ancient Greece in 431 BC was not a nation.
		The Greece that Poe praised was primarily Athens during its golden age in the 5th century BC.
		Includes an anthology of classical philosophical, dramatic, and historical literature, a historical summary from 3300 to 30 BC, a small library of essays on Greek philosophy and religion, and an archive of ancient maps.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-201731?tocId=201731&ct= (984 words)

	Peloponnesian War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The triumph of the great Athenian fleet and its rout of Xerxes' Persian forces at the sea battle of Salamis in 480 BC launched Athens upon its "golden age" of prosperity, power and cultural achievement.
		When relations between Corinth and Athens next reached a crisis in 431 BC, Corinth deftly aligned Sparta and its Boethian allies as its protectors, playing on their fears of ever-increasing Athenian power.
		The Athenian attack on Syracuse in Sicily was one of the major engagements of the conflict and a significant factor in Athens' final surrender.
	www.boglewood.com /sicily/peloponnesian.html (222 words)

	429 BC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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		Years: 434 BC 433 BC 432 BC 431 BC 430 BC - 429 BC - 428 BC 427 BC 426 BC 425 BC 424 BC
		Battle of Naupactus (429 BC)[?] Phormio again defeats the Peloponnesian fleet.
	www.termsdefined.net /42/429-bc.html (136 words)

	Peloponnesian War on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The rivalry between Athens' maritime domain and Sparta's land empire was of long standing.
		Athens under Pericles (from 445 BC) had become a bastion of Greek democracy, with a foreign policy of regularly intervening to help local democrats.
		The first important action was the initial invasion of Attica by a Spartan army in 431.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/P/PelopW1ar.asp (700 words)

	431 BC - Wikipedia
		Decades: 480s BC - 470s BC - 460s BC - 450s BC 440s BC - 430s BC - 420s BC - 410s BC - 400s BC - 390s BC - 380s BC
		Years: 436 BC 435 BC 434 BC 433 BC 432 BC 431 BC 430 BC 429 BC 428 BC 427 BC 426 BC
		This page was last modified 18:10, 29 October 2001.
	nostalgia.wikipedia.org /wiki/431_BC (110 words)

	Learn more about 431 BC in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /4/43/431_bc.html (193 words)

	[ The Greeks ] - Site Index
		570 BC - Cleisthenes born / early life
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	www.pbs.org /empires/thegreeks/siteindex/siteindex_html_c.html (320 words)

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		(2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium AD)
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /5/5t/5th_century_bc.html (137 words)

	POSI's homeport - Greek Military Insignia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The above answer was given by the Athenians early in the spring of 479 bC, to a Spartan delegation.
		From a conversation between Xerxes and Demaratus in the summer of 480 bC during the Persians' invasion to Greece.
		Crito, a friend and discipline of Socrates (4609-399 bC), had planned the escape of Socrates from prison and, on the eve of his execution, came to prison to persuade him.
	www.greeksongs.gr /insignia.htm (1676 words)

	Alcibiades -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		He was in charge of the Athenian forces engaged in the siege of Syracuse, Sicily, and the failure of the siege contributed greatly to the ultimate defeat of Athens.
		When the philosopher Socrates was tried and convicted, in 399 BC, for corrupting the young men of Athens, it is possible that the example of Alcibiades was on the minds of the judges.
		It was a contest between a great sea power, Athens and its empire, and a great land power, Sparta and the...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9005499?tocId=9005499 (614 words)

	Eclipse Quotations - Part I
		Don't any of you be surprised in future if land beasts change places with dolphins and go to live in their salty pastures, and get to like the sounding waves of the sea more than the land, while the dolphins prefer the mountains.
		Extract from a speech made in 597 BC, in support of a general who had recently suffered defeat, and was in danger of execution.
		Refers to the solar eclipse of 28 May 585 BC, when the Lydians and the Medes were fighting a war.
	www.mreclipse.com /Special/quotes1.html (5730 words)

	The Hellenist Quest for Universal Order (300 to 150 BC) - By Miles Hodges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Around the time of Alexander (around 330 BC) a series of new schools of political thought were founded by philosophers from around the Greek realm (especially around its eastern borders).
		When he and his army set off toward Asia Minor in 334 BC no one had any idea of how far Alexander's ambitions in Asia were going to take them.
		Certainly Epicurus (342-270 BC), the founder of the philosophy that bears his name, advocated the pursuit of pleasure.
	www.newgenevacenter.org /west/hellenistic2.htm (3991 words)

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