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Under Pericles, colonies and garrisons are established in strategic areas with the colonists remaining Athenian citizens
An extensive trading network, backed up by force, gives Athens control over the whole of the Aegean and the Black Sea
Pericles breaches his own Thirty Years Treaty, sending 30 triremes in support of a city state in dispute with Corinth, an ally of Sparta
Sparta demands withdrawal of the Athenian ships from the Peloponnesian coast, but Pericles will offer only independent arbitration
A sudden attack on Plataea (an ally of Athens) by Thebes (an ally of Sparta) begins the Second Peloponnesian War
The renewal of the Peloponnesian War prompts Thucydides to begin a great work of contemporary history
A plague strikes Athens in the second year of the Peloponnesian War
Pericles dies in Athens of the plague
Athenians vote to kill all the men on the captured island of Mytilene, but the next day change their mind - almost too late
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 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
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
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
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 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
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
