Herodotus probably was born in 483 BCE in the Greek city-state of Halicarnassus in Asia Minor, south of Miletus and close to the island of Cos.
By the mid-fifth centuryBCE, when Herodotus was in the prime of life, Athens had become a great imperial city which was the cultural capital of the Greek world.
Probably after having failed in his bid for Athenian citizenship in the 440s, Herodotus migrated to the Athenian colony of Thurii, a colony of Athenians and other Greeks on the instep of the Italian peninsula which was founded in 444-443 BCE.
In 1600s BCE 1600 BCE, Egypt was conquered by tribes, apparently Semitic, known as the Hyksos by the Egyptians.
Between 1540s BCE 1540-1070s BCE 1070 BCE, Ahmose I founded the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt 18th Egyptian dynasty, and a new age for Egypt, the New Kingdom.
David was succeeded in about 960s BCE 965 BCE by his son Solomon, who constructed the Temple of Solomon First Temple at Jerusalem and had a prosperous reign.
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Socrates was called "deinos legein"--"*deinos* at speaking"--by his *enemies*, which I think gives us a good sense of the resonances of the word, at least in the early 4th centuryBCE.
It may have been more unambiguously positive in the 440s, when *Antigone* was produced, but I doubt it.
This ode is often ripped out of context and anthologized as a great hymn in praise of human achievement--an interpretation which has always seemed profoundly mistaken to me, for various reasons.
Pericles made a speech in 430 BCE asking women to have more children so a large pool of conscriptable young men would be available for future wars (Pomeroy, 66).
Funds from the Delian League (an alliance of Greek states, formed to face the threat of invading Persians) were collected to maintain the league, but in 454 when the headquarters was moved to Athens from the Isle of Delos, Pericles began re-routing funds to finance his Athenian building program (Moscovich).
The building program begun by Pericles in the 440s and 430s was still going strong after his death in 429 BCE from the plague (Hornblower, 1139, Radice, 189).
www.uwo.ca /wcwi/essayaward/2000.htm (6453 words)
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750 BCE Terra-cotta, H. 42 5/8", Stokstad, fig.
Cerveteri, Tomb of the Reliefs, 3c BCE Stokstad, fig.
Aulus Metellus, found in the vicinity of Lake Trasimeno, late 2nd or early 1c BCE.
The price of gold has declined so far in 2005 and the market does seem "gloomy." As of this writing, gold is dipping under $420 per ounce (now in the $440s).
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Before the onset of the Peloponnesian War, ancient Greece was an epicenter of great military, intellectual, cultural and political development; it was also a time of questioning and reexamination of religious and traditional beliefs.
The 440s B.C. and the 430s B.C. are known as the height of the Athenian Empire.
It is the war that Thucydides describes that brings the empire to an end.
Persian destruction of temples and dedications (480 BCE, Herodotus 8.51-55), including still unfinished Pre-Parthenon
Erechtheion, 421-405 BCE, on N side of Acropolis; odd shape to accommodate many very old existing cults
Temple of Athena Nike (= "Victory"): 420's BCE, at SW edge of Acropolis (had once been a Mycenaean defense tower there, but Nike worshipped at least from first half of 6th century)
Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society - Archaeology of the Land of the Bible.
December 1, 2002 -- Archaeology of the Land of the Bible.
September 22, 2004 -- As early as 400 BCE, Xenophon had stated that "not numbers or strength bring victory in war; but whichever army goes into battle stronger in soul,...
values and selfdefinition of the athenians thru the parthenon In the 5th centuryBCE Athens was thriving.
At the time the Parthenon was built, in the 440s and 430s BCE on the Acropolis at Athens, Athens had more wealth and more subordinate allies than any other Greek city had ever had before.
With a bit of arrogance, they decided to go through with an enormous building project despite the objections and embarrassment of a few.
Douglas Olson (Editor) "Aristophanes son of Philippos of the deme Kydathenaion (PA 2090; PAA 175685) was born most likely in the early 440sBCE..." (more)
Aristophanes son of Philippos of the deme Kydathenaion (PA 2090; PAA 175685) was born most likely in the early 440sBCE.
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