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Aristophanes wins first prize in Athens for his comedy The Acharnians
Socrates is now sufficiently prominent to be satirized in Clouds, a comedy by Aristophanes
The Greek philosopher Democritus declares that matter is composed of indivisible and indestructible atoms
The Athenians, capturing Melos, kill all the males of the island and sell the women and children into slavery
The Persians, renewing their interest in the Aegean, fund the Spartans in the building of a fleet to match that of Athens
The Greeks develop the three classical styles of column, the Doric, the Ionic and the Corinthian
A Carthaginian army lands near Marsala to begin the long involvement of Carthage in Sicily
The last remaining Athenian fleet is surprised and destroyed by the Spartans in the Hellespont
The famous Long Walls of Athens, her impregnable defence, are dismantled by the Spartans in the final act of the Peloponnesian War
Greek mercenaries, on the losing side at Cunaxa, begin a long journey home - described by Xenophon in the Anabasis
Hippocrates, on the Greek island of Kos, founds an influential school of medicine
Socrates, convicted in Athens of impiety, is sentenced to death and drinks the hemlock
The Romans capture the nearby Etruscan town of Veii, beginning a long process of territorial expansion
Celtic tribes , pushing south through the Alps, reach Rome and sack the city
Plato establishes a school in Akademeia, a suburb of Athens
Central to Plato's philosophy is the theory that there are higher Forms of reality, of which our senses perceive only a transient shadow
A Greek text, attributed to Polybus, argues that the human body is composed of four humours
A Spartan army is overwhelmed at Leuctra by a smaller number of Thebans under Epaminondas
Aristotle, at the age of seventeen, comes to Athens to join Plato's academy
Philip II succeds his father Amyntas III on the throne of Macedonia, the northernmost kingdom of Greece
Philip II sets about making Macedon the most powerful state in Greece
Alexander the Great is born in Pella, the capital of his father Philip II, at the heart of the expanding Macedonian kingdom
Eudoxus of Cnidus proposes the concept of transparent spheres supporting the bodies visible in the heavens
Private financiers in Athens give loans, take deposits, change money from one currency to another and arrange credit for travellers
The earliest description of a pulley appears in a Greek text
