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

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B.C. B.C.
nesus to assist the Argives against the Athenian forces. Mindarus the LaceLacedaemonians, but are defeated at the daemonian admiral defeated at Cynossema.
battle of Mantineia. Alliance between Antiphon, the orator, had a great share
Sparta and Argos. in the establishment of the Four Hundred.
417 Fifteenth year of the Peloponnesian war. After their downfal he is brought to trial
416 Sixteenth year of the Peloponnesian war. and put to death.
The Athenians conquer Melos. The history of Thucydides suddenly
Agathon, the tragic poet, gains the prize. breaks off in the middle of this year.
415 Seventeenth year of the Peloponnesian war. The Lysistrata and Thesmopihoriazusae
The Athenian expedition against Sicily. of Aristophanes.
It sailed after midsummer, commanded by Lysias returns from Thurii to Athens.
Nicias, Alcibiades, and Lamachus. Muti- 410 Twenty-second year of the Peloponnesian
lation of the Hermae at Athens before war. Mindarus defeated and slain by
the fleet sailed. The Athenians take Alcibiades at Cyzicus.
Catana. Alcibiades is recalled home: he 409 Twenty-third year of the Peloponnesian war.
makes his escape, and takes refuge with The Philoctetes of Sophocles.
the Lacedaemonians. Plato aet. 20 begins to hear Socrates.
Andocides, the orator, imprisoned on the 408 Twenty-fourth year of the Peloponnesian
mutilation of the Hermae. He escapes by war. Alcibiades recovers Byzantium.
turning informer. He afterwards went to The Orestes of Euripides.
Cyprus and other countries. The Plutus of Aristophanes.
Xenocles, the tragic poet, gains the first 407 Twenty-fifth year of the Peloponnesian war.
prize. Alcibiades returns to Athens. Lysander
Archippus, the comic poet, gains the appointed the Lacedaemonian admiral and
prize. supported by Cyrus, who this year received
414 Eighteenth year of the Peloponnesian war, the government of the countries on the
Second campaign in Sicily. The Athe- Asiatic coast. Antiochus, the lieutenant
nians invest Syracuse. Gylippus the of Alcibiades, defeated by Lysander at
Lacedaemonian comes to the assistance of Notium in the absence of Alcibiades.
the Syracusans. Alcibiades is in consequence banished,
The Birds and Amphiaraus (a lost and ten new generals appointed.
drama) of Aristophanes. Antiphanes, the comic poet, born.
Ameipsias, the comic poet, gains the 406 Twenty-sixth year of the Peloponnesian war.
prize with his Kw/uaoa-T. Callicratidas, who succeeded Lysander as
413 Nineteenth year of the Peloponnesian war. Lacedaemonian admiral, defeated by the
Invasion of Attica and fortification of De- Athenians in the sea-fight off the Arcelea, on the advice of Alcibiades. ginussae islands. The Athenian generals
Third campaign in Sicily. Demosthenes condemned to death, because they had not
sent with a large force to the assistance of picked up the bodies of those who had
the Athenians. Total destruction of the fallen in the battle.
Athenian army and fleet. Nicias and Dionysius becomes master of Syracuse.
Demosthenes surrender and are put to Death of Euripides.
death on the 12th or 13th of September, Death of Sophocles. [See Vol. III.
16 or 17 days after the eclipse of the p. 868, b.]
moon, which took place on the 27th of Philistus of Syracuse, the historian,
August. espoused the cause of Dionysius.
Hegemon of Thasos, the comic poet, was 405 Twenty-seventh year of the Peloponnesian
exhibiting his parody of the Giganto- war. Lysander defeats the Athenians off
machia, when the news arrived at Athens Aegospotami, and talres or destroys all
of the defeat in Sicily. their fleet with the exception of eight ships
412 Twentieth year of the Peloponnesian war. which fled with Conon to Cyprus.
The Lesbians revolt from Athens. Alci- The Frogs of Aristophanes acted in
biades sent by the Lacedaemonians to February at the Lenaea.
Asia to form a treaty with the Persians. 404 Twenty-eighth and last year of the PeloponHe succeeds in his mission and forms a nesian war. Athens'taken by Lysander
treaty with Tissaphernes, and urges the in the spring on the 16th of the month
Athenian allies in Asia to revolt. The Munychion. Democracy abolished, and
Athenians make use of the 1000 talents the government entrusted to thirty men,
deposited for extreme emergencies. usually called the Thirty Tyrants.
The Andromeda of Euripides. The Thirty Tyrants held their power for
4 11 Twenty-first year of the Peloponnesian war. eight months, till Thrasybulus occupied
Democracy abolished at Athens, and the Phyle and advanced to the Peiraeeus.
government entrusted to a council of Four Death of Alcibiades during the tyranny of
Hundred. This council holds the govern- the Thirty.
ment follr months. The Athenian army Lysias banished after the battle of
at Samos recalls Alcibiades from exile Aegospotami.
and appoints him one of their generals. 403 Thrasybulus and his party obtain possession
He is afterwards recalled by a vote of the of the Peiraeeus, from whence they carried
people at Athens, but he remained abroad on war for several months against the Ten,
for the next folru years at the head of the the successors of the Thirty. They oh