A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

GREEK HISTORY. 1341
B1. C. B.C.
Meiissus the philosopher defends Samos fluence in public affairs. Plataeae suragainst Pericles. rendered to the Peloponnesians. Sedition
A decree to prohibit comedy at Athens. at Corcyra. The Athenians send assistance
439 Athens at the height of its glory. to the Leontines in Sicily.
437 Colony of Agnon to Amphipolis. Aristophanes, the comic poet, first ex
The prohibition of comedy repealed. hibits. He gains the prize with the play
436 Isocrates born. called AaoTa-eY, which is lost.
Cratinus, the comic poet, gains the prize. Gorgias ambassador from Leontini to
435 War between? the Corinthians and Corcy- Athens. He was probably now nearly
raeans on account of Epidamnus. The 60 years of age.
Corinthians defeated by the Corcyraeans 426 Sixth year of the Peloponnesian war. The
in a sea-fight. Peloponnesians do not invade Attica in
434 The Corinthians make great preparations to consequence of an earthquake.
carry on the war with vigour. Lustration of Delos.
Lysippus, the comic poet, gains the prize. The Babylonians of Aristophanes.
433 The Corcyraeans and Corinthians send em- 425 Seventh year of the Peloponnesian war.
bassies to Athens to solicit assistance. The Fifth invasion of Attica. Demosthenes
Athenians form a defensive alliance with talkes possession of Pylos. The Spartans
the Corcyraeans. in the island of Sphacteria surrendered to
432 The Corcyraeans assisted by the Athenians Cleon seventy-two days afterwards.
defeat the Corinthians in the spring. Eruption of Mount Aetna.
In the same year Potidaea revolts from Accession of Dareius Nothus.
Athens. Congress of the Peloponnesians The Achca-nians of Aristophanes.
in the autumn to decide upon war with 424 Eighth year of the Peloponnesian war. NiAthens. cias ravages the coast of Laconia and
Andocides the orator, one of the com- captures the island of Cythera. March of
manders of the Athenian fleet, to protect Brasidas into Thrace, who obtains posthe Corcyraeans against the Corinthians. session of Acanthus and Amphipolis. The
Anaxagoras prosecuted for impiety at Athenians defeated by the Thebans at
Athens, withdraws to Lampsacus, where Delium.
he died about four years afterwards. Socrates and Xenophon fought at the
Aspasia, prosecuted by the comic poet battle of Delium.
Hermippus, but acquitted through the in- Thucydides, the historian, commanded
fluence of Pericles. at Amphipolis.
Prosecution and death of Pheidias. [See The Knights of Aristophanes.
Vol. III. pp. 248, 249.] 423 Ninth year of the Peloponnesian war. Truce
431 First year of the Peloponnesian war. The for a year.
Thebans make an attempt upon Plataeae Thucydides banished in consequence of
two months before midsummer. Eighty the loss of Amphipolis. He was 20
days afterwards Attica is invaded by the years in exile.
Peloponnesians. Alliance between the The Clouds of Aristophanes first exAthenians and Sitalces king of Thrace. hibited.
Hellanicus aet. 65, Herodotus aet. 53, Antiochus of Syracuse brought down
Thucydides acet. 40, at the commencement his history to this date.
of the Peloponnesian war. 422 Tenth year of the Peloponnesian war. HosThe 1[edea of Euripides exhibited. tilities in Thrace between the Lacedae430 Second year of the Peloponnesian war. Se- monians and Athenians. Both Brasidas
cond invasion of Attica. and Cleon fall in battle. Athenian citiThe plague rages at Athens. zens at this time computed at 20,000.
429 Third year of the Peloponnesian war. Po- The tWasps of Aristophanes and second
tidaea surrenders to the Athenians after a exhibition of the Clouds.
siege of more than two years. Naval Death of Cratinus.
actions of Phormio in the Corinthian gulph. Protagoras, the sophist, comes to Athens.
Commencement of the siege of Plataeae. 421 Eleventh year of the Peloponnesian war.
Death of Pericles in the autumn. Truce for fifty years between the AtheBirth of Plato, the philosopher. nians and Lacedaemonians. Though this
Eupolis and Phrynichus, the comic poets, truce was not formally declared to be at an
exhibit. end till B. C. 414, there were notwithstand428 Fourth year of the Peloponnesian war. Third ing frequent hostilities meantime.
invasion of Attica. Revolt of all Lesbos The Mapucas and K3oalces of Eupolis.
except Methymnae. Mytilene besieged 420 Twelfth year of the Peloponnesian war.
towards the autumn. Treaty between the Athenians and Argives
Death of Anaxagoras, acet. 72. effected by means of Alcibiades.
The Hippolytus of Euripides gains the The"Ayptoi of Pherecrates. The ASfirst prize. o'Nvcuos of Eupolis.
Plato the comic poet first exhibits. 419 Thirteenth year of the Peloponnesian war.
427 Fifth year of the Peloponnesian war. Fourth Alcibiades marches into Peloponnesu
invasion of Attica. Mytilene taken by The Peace of Aristophanes.
the Athenians and Lesbos recovered. The 418 Fourteenth year of the Peloponnesian war.
demagogue Cleon begins to have great in- The Athenians send a force into Pelopon