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  Delos National Undergraduate Literary Magazine: History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
By 700 BC the island was a flourishing cult center, celebrating the two dieties' birthplace.
By 477 BC Delos came under Athen's shadow, and in 426 the Athenians began their quest to "purify" the Delian holy ground.
Since the fall of Corinth in the 2d century BC, Delos transformed from sacred ground to a seat of commerce to a center in the Roman slave trade, but it is forever remembered as the birthplace of Apollo and Artemis.
www.delosliterary.org /hi_more.html   (182 words)

  
 ARCL2001: Lecture 20
In the early sixth century BC an area of flat land to the north-west of the Akropolis was set aside as a public space.
By the early fifth century BC it is clear that due to the growing population and citizen body and to the increasingly more sophisticated organisation of the city, public spaces and buildings are gaining an increasing specificity of function.
During the decade 470-460 BC, the Tholos was constructed as the new headquarters for the Prytaneis, or executive committee of the Athenian Boule (Council).
teaching.arts.usyd.edu.au /archaeology/arcl2001/lecture_20.htm   (1748 words)

  
 Ballistic Coefficient
BC is what determines trajectory and wind drift, other factors (velocity among them) being equal.
BC changes with the shape of the bullet and the speed at which the bullet is traveling, while sectional density does not.
This is shown by the smaller difference in BC between the two pointed bullets,.357 for the flat base and.400 for the boat tail.
www.chuckhawks.com /bc.htm   (905 words)

  
 ANCIENT EGYPT SURVIVES UNTIL THE PRESENT DAY: AN ALTERNATE HISTORY TIMELINE
477 BC--Representatives from the Greek city-states of Asia Minor and the islands scattered throughout the Aegean Sea, meet on the island of Delos—a sacred island associated with the cult of Apollo—to discuss an alliance with the Athenians.
After the decisive naval battle at Eurymedon in 467 BC, where the Persian fleet is destroyed, the League frees the Ionian Greek cities from Persian rule and these cities join the League (sometimes forcibly).
As a result, by the end of the 1st Century BC, many Jews have become dissatisfied with their religion and start to follow various cults which look to the arrival of a promised "Messiah" who will restore the Jewish faith to purity.
www.geocities.com /robertp6165/saitetimeline2.html   (3706 words)

  
 Athens -> History on Encyclopedia.com 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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)

  
 History of Ancient Athens - Periklean Age
A small Athenian army, which landed at Halieis (459-458 BC), on the Akte, was defeated by the Corinthians, but in a naval battle, between Athens and Corinth, that took place near the little island Cekryphalea, in the Saronic gulf lying between Aegina and the Argive shore, the Athenians defeated the Corinthians.
In 447 BC, a revolution in Boeotia took place and an Athenian body of one thousand hoplitae, mainly youthful aristocratic volunteers, under the command of general Tolmedes, marched to Boeotia, against the advice of Perikles, who told them to be patient and wait until they collected a stronger force.
At the third year of the war (429 BC), Perikles died in the autumn, from the plague and the political power of Athens now fell on demagogues, who often been unable to persuade the middle class and the aristocrats of Athens, they used cheap politics to stir up the population with disastrous results.
www.sikyon.com /Athens/ahist_eg03.html   (6045 words)

  
 Solar eclipse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
On June 4, 780 BC a solar eclipse was recorded in China.
The sky suddenly darkened in the middle of the sky, well after the battles of Thermopylae and Salamis, after the departure of Mardonius to Thessaly at the beginning of the spring of (477 BC) and his second attack on Athens, after the return of Cleombrotus to Sparta.
It took place shortly before an eclipse of the Sun that was observed at Rome on June 25, 745 BC and had a magnitude of 50.3%.
www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/s/so/solar_eclipse.html   (1983 words)

  
 (52) The dynasties of Magadh after the Mahabharat war and the important historical personalities (Gautam Buddh, ...
Thus, according to the records of Kanchi Kamkoti Math, Adi Shankaracharya was born on 2593 Kali era and left this earth planet on 2625 Kali era which comes to (3102 - 2593) 509 BC and (3102 - 2625) 477 BC.
Vikram era started in 57 BC by Vikramaditya the Great as a commemoration of his victory upon the Shaks.
The major part of Bhartiya history is the history of eternal Sages and Saints and such Divine personalities who descended on the earth planet to show us the path of eternal happiness that has no limits.
encyclopediaofauthentichinduism.org /articles/52_the_dynasties_of.htm   (1909 words)

  
 Page Two - (53) Chronological chart of the history of Bharatvarsh since its origination.
Sureshwaracharya 490-477 BC Brahm Swaroop 477-448 BC (Agent of Sureshwaracharya)
In his last few years Adi Shankaracharya lived in Kanchi Kamkoti.
When he left this earth planet in 477 BC, Sureshwaracharya became the first acharya of the Peeth.
www.encyclopediaofauthentichinduism.org /articles/53.3.htm   (118 words)

  
 472 BC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Decades: 520s BC 510s BC 500s BC 490s BC 480s BC - 470s BC - 460s BC 450s BC 440s BC 430s BC 420s BC
477 BC 476 BC 475 BC 474 BC 473 BC 472 BC 471 BC 470 BC 469 BC 468 BC 467 BC
Carystus in Euboea is forced to join the Delian League.
www.marylandheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/472_BC   (143 words)

  
 etruscan
477 BC War between Rome and Veii, the gens Fabi is decimated
384 BC : Denys of Syracuse pillages the Pyrgi sanctuary
357 — 354 BC : Rome attacks the Etruscans and the Faliscans : siege of Sutri
www.geocities.com /Athens/Crete/4060/history.htm   (355 words)

  
 Athenian Empire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Delian league was inaugurated in 477 BC as an offensive and defensive alliance against Persia.
In 454 BC, suppossedly due to an increase in Persian and pirate activity, the Athenians moved the treasury of the League from Delos to Athens, further consolidating their control over the League.
The Second Athenian Empire, a maritime self-defense league, was founded in 377 BC and was led by Athens; but Athens would never recover the full extent of her power, and her enemies were now far stronger and more varied.
brandt.kurowski.net /projects/lsa/wiki/view.cgi?doc=425   (1131 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)

  
 Bhartiya History - Bhartiya Chronology
Shishunag dynasty’s period is 2001 BC to 1641 BC.
Kalidas, the greatest poet, writer and the literary figure of his time, living a pious life and sincerely devoted to his scholarly work, was one of the nine gems of King Vikram’s court.
Thus, Vikramaditya was born in 102 BC (3102-3000), established his ‘era’ in 57 BC and left this earth planet in 15 AD.
www.thevedicfoundation.org /bhartiya_history/chronology.htm   (1514 words)

  
 470s BC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Centuries: 6th century BC - 5th century BC - 4th century BC
Decades: 520s BC - 510s BC - 500s BC - 490s BC - 480s BC - 470s BC - 460s BC - 450s BC - 440s BC - 430s BC - 420s BC
479 BC 478 BC 477 BC 476 BC 475 BC 474 BC 473 BC 472 BC 471 BC 470 BC
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 Studium -Your Online Hobby Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Most were struck between 449 BC and 413 BC, and were used to finance grandiose building projects.
Early versions of this coinage had the "reverse" with the archaic head of Athena in a plain battledress helmet, with the "obverse" displaying her owl, a sprig of olive in the upper left, and the Greek letters for Athens:
However, in 490 BC, the decisive Battle of Marathon occured, and some additions to the design were made.
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 History and Culture of Lesvos (Lesbos) island, Greece
However, in the battle of Lade in 494 BC, the Persians were victorious and the inhabitants of Lesbos, like the rest of the Greeks in Asia Minor, were completely subjugated to the conquerors.
In 405 BC, Lysander the Spartan, conquered all the towns of Lesbos.
In 369 BC Lesbos entered the Second Athenian League, but fell to the Persians again in 357 BC; they again placed their friends in positions of power.
www.greeknet.com /history1.htm   (1409 words)

  
 480 BC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Battle of Himera The CarthageCarthaginians under Hamilcar are defeated by the Greeks of Sicily, led by Gelon of Syracuse/.
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Control of "Greece" was divided between a number of independent city-states which often formed shifting alliances with each other or fought to expand or preserve their spheres of influence.
Different parts of Italy, at different times, were "colonized" by different Greek city/states, in the BC millennium.
264 BC Rome had substantially completed the conquest of the Penisula and launched the Punic Wars to gain dominance in the greater Mediterranean area.
www.italystl.com /ra/1213.htm   (692 words)

  
 Neolithic Age - Modern Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Mid-8th century BC: the earliest beginnings of classical art and several political developments are traced during this period, where the unification of Attica is being completed…
477 BC: democracy matures with the reforms of Pericles, while at the same time a unique cultural environment is being created, which reaches perfection with the construction of the Acropolis monuments…
431 - 404 BC: the Peloponnesian War and the composition of its chronicle by Thucydides, the flourishing of the sophists, Aristophanes comedies and Euripides tragedies characterize this period…
www.athens2004.com /athens2004/page/legacy?lang=en&cid=0d3c50c2c3f69f00VgnVCMServer28130b0aRCRD   (608 words)

  
 SculptureCredits1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Probably to be restored as a figure of the dejected Ajax, holding his sword and contemplating suicide.
Copy of a statue of about 440 BC, possibly from a monument in Athens to the men fallen at Koroneia (477 BC).
Copy of a cult statue of Athena (Athena Velletri), perhaps from the Hephaisteion in Athens, late 5th century BC.
www.beazley.ox.ac.uk /Credits/SculptureCredits/Sculpturecredits2.htm   (1640 words)

  
 The history of Thassos Greece
In the 7th Century BC Telesicles, King of Paros, received an oracle from Delphi saying: “Tell the Parians, Telesicles, that I order you to build upon the isle of Aeria a city that will be visible everywhere”.
The inhabitants minted coins which remained in circulation throughout the Mediterranean for hundreds of years, and Thassian wines were much praised by almost all of the poets of antiquity.
465 BC: Thassos revolts and is subdued by the Athenians, who destroy its ships and its walls.
www.gothassos.com /history.htm   (728 words)

  
 Abdicate - Chronology accorging to Scripture
477 BC Xerxes' 21st year of reign according to archeologists, Artaxerxes' accession year.
462 BC In 483 years and 13 days, Jesus is "cut off" (Daniel 9:26) in the Jewish year 3787.
Order given to Ezra to rebuild the city and establish a government (which is different than that of Cyrus which was to rebuild the temple), this is the year of the fulfillment of Daniel's prophecy and the start of that same prophecy concerning the Messiah, Daniel 9:25-27.
www.abdicate.net /chronology.asp?page=71&order=CreationYear&fonly=False   (1915 words)

  
 Greek Sculpture
killed Hipparchus, brother of the tyrant in Athens, Hippias, in 514 BC.
Athenians commissioned statues of these 2 heroes - 2 isolated bronzes - standing side by side, erected together in 508/7 BC by Antenor - carried off by Persian invaders.
Second set in 477 BC by Critios and Nesiotes (the sculptors) as replacements.
www.angelfire.com /art/archictecture/articles/sculpt.htm   (1122 words)

  
 Health and Lifestyles, Victoria BC
The Vancouver Island Health Authority is one of six health authorities in BC providing a full range of health care services to people.
Your BC Gold Care Card confirms your age (65 years or older) and that you are a full-time resident of BC.
Victoria, BC is a non-profit volunteer society dedicated to the treatment,
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 wikien.info: Main_Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Decades: 530s BC 520s BC 510s BC 500s BC 490s BC - 480s BC - 470s BC 460s BC 450s BC 440s BC 430s BC
Battle of Himera The Carthaginians under Hamilcar are defeated by the Greeks of Sicily, led by Gelon of Syracuse.
Philolaus, Greek mathematician and philosopher (+ circa 405 BC) (estimated date).
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 Horse Trailers Bc   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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 Buddhism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This is not the same thing as the Christian concept of heaven, where you continue to exist.
About 477 BC, after the death of Gautama, his disciples put together the Sutra's (Sayings of Buddha) and the Vinaya (rules and regulation of the Buddhist order).
In 245 BC the third Buddhist council was held.
www.biblefacts.org /history/buddha.html   (322 words)

  
 481 BC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
481 BC Centuries: 6th century BC - 5th century BC - 4th century BC
Years: 486 BC 485 BC 484 BC 483 BC 482 BC - 481 BC - 480 BC 479 BC 478 BC 477 BC 476 BC
The Congress at the Isthmus of Corinth ends a war between Athens and Aegina
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 Ionia, Phokaia - Ancient Greek Coinage - WildWinds.com
477-326 BC, Woman's head left / Quadripartite incuse square.
Head of nymph facing left with hair tightly bound to head.
B.C. Draped bust of Hermes right, wearing petasos / forepart of a griffin right.
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