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Pericles is selected by the assembly as the leading general of Athens, a post to which he is re-appointed every year until his death
Myron sculpts the Discus Thrower, an outstanding example of the Greek ability to suggest movement
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
Phidias creates a massive statue of Zeus, covered in gold and ivory, to stand in the temple at Olympia
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 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
