470s BC

This article concerns the period 479 BC – 470 BC.

Events

[edit]

479 BC

By place

[edit]
Greece
[edit]

478 BC

[edit]

By place

[edit]
Greece
[edit]
  • Despite Spartan opposition, Athens works on refortifying and rebuilding after the Persian destruction of the city in 479.
  • The Delian League is established[2]
  • With the help of the Athenian statesman and general, Cimon, Aristides commands an Athenian fleet of 30 ships that the Spartan commander Pausanias leads to capture the Greek cities on Cyprus and Byzantium, taking them from the Persians and their Phoenician allies.[3]
  • While Pausanias is occupying Byzantium, his arrogance and his adoption of Persian clothing and manners offends the allies and raises suspicions of disloyalty. Pausanias is recalled to Sparta, where he is tried and acquitted of the charge of treason, but he is not restored to his command.
Sicily
[edit]
China
[edit]

477 BC

[edit]

By place

[edit]
Greece
[edit]
  • The Spartan co-ruler Leotychides and the Athenian leader Themistocles lead a fleet and army to reoccupy northern Greece and to punish the aristocratic family of the Aleuads for having aided the Persians. Leotychides is caught accepting a bribe during the operations in Thessaly.
  • Greek maritime cities around the Aegean Sea no longer wish to be under Spartan control and at Delos offer their allegiance, through Aristides, to Athens. They form the Delian League (also known as the Confederacy of Delos) with Cimon as their principal commander.
Roman Republic
[edit]

476 BC

[edit]

By place

[edit]
Greece
[edit]
  • Convicted in Sparta on the charge of accepting a bribe from the Aleudae family whilst leading an expedition to Thessaly against the family for their collaboration with the Persians, the Spartan King Leotychidas flees to the temple of Athena Alea in Tegea, Arcadia. A sentence of exile is passed upon him; his house is razed, and his grandson, Archidamus II, ascends the Spartan throne in his place.
  • Cimon of Athens increases his power at the expense of Themistocles. He ousts Pausanias and the Spartans from the area around the Bosporus. The Spartans, hearing that Pausanias is intriguing with the Persians, recall him and he is "disciplined".
  • Under the leadership of Kimon, the Delian League continues to fight Persia and to remove the Ionian cities from Persian administration. The conquest of Eion on the Strymon from Persia is led by Cimon.

By topic

[edit]
Literature
[edit]
  • The Greek poet Pindar visits Sicily and is made welcome at the courts of Theron of Acragas and Hieron I of Syracuse. They commission some of his greatest poetry. It is through these connections that Pindar's reputation spreads all over the Greek world.

475 BC

[edit]

By place

[edit]
Greece
[edit]
  • Cimon leads an Athenian attack on the island of Skyros and expels the indigenous inhabitants who are regarded as pirates.[4]
  • The first recorded eruption of Mount Etna occurs.[5]
China
[edit]

By topic

[edit]
Arts
[edit]

474 BC

[edit]

By place

[edit]
Italy
[edit]

By topic

[edit]
Literature
[edit]
  • The Greek poet Pindar moves to Thebes after two years at the Sicilian Court of Hiero I of Syracuse. While at Thebes, he composes lyric odes to celebrate triumphs in the Olympic Games and other athletic events.

473 BC

[edit]

By place

[edit]
China
[edit]
Japan
[edit]

472 BC

[edit]

By place

[edit]
Greece
[edit]

By topic

[edit]
Literature
[edit]

471 BC

[edit]

By place

[edit]
Greece
[edit]

470 BC

[edit]

By place

[edit]
Greece
[edit]
  • Suspected of plotting to seize power in Sparta by instigating a helot uprising, Pausanias takes refuge in the Temple of Athena of the Brazen House to escape arrest. The sanctuary is respected, but the Spartans wall in the sanctuary and starve Pausanias to death.

By topic

[edit]
Architecture
[edit]
Art
[edit]

Births

475 BC

474 BC

472 BC

471 BC

470 BC

Deaths

479 BC

478 BC

477 BC

476 BC

475 BC

473 BC

470 BC

  1. ^ Herodotus IX.59
  2. ^ Hammond, N. G. L. (1967). "The Origins and the Nature of the Athenian Alliance of 478/7 B. C." The Journal of Hellenic Studies. 87: 41–61. doi:10.2307/627806. ISSN 0075-4269.
  3. ^ Balcer, Jack Martin (1997). "The Liberation of Ionia: 478 B.C." Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte. 46 (3): 374–377. ISSN 0018-2311.
  4. ^ Smith, Sir William (1857). History of Greece. p. 227.
  5. ^ "Mount Etna | Eruptions, History, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 7 April 2019.
  6. ^ Griffiths, Jane (2006-02-23), "Amplifying Memory: The Bibliotheca Historica of Diodorus Siculus", John Skelton and Poetic Authority, Oxford University Press, pp. 38–55, ISBN 978-0-19-927360-7, retrieved 2024-10-01
  7. ^ Trollope, Anthony (1951-01-01), "379. To Rhoda Broughton. 28 June. Michael Sadleir.", The Letters of Anthony Trollope, Oxford University Press, pp. 222–222, retrieved 2024-10-01
  8. ^ Meiggs, Russell; Hornblower, Simon (2015-07-30), "Delian League", Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Classics, doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.2074, ISBN 978-0-19-938113-5, retrieved 2023-09-08
  9. ^ Favorini, Attilio (2003). "History, Collective Memory, and Aeschylus' "The Persians"". Theatre Journal. 55 (1): 99–111. ISSN 0192-2882.
  10. ^ "Philolaus". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved February 24, 2024.
  11. ^ "Socrates | Biography, Philosophy, Beliefs, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
  12. ^ Plutarch's Lives, Aristides 19
  13. ^ "Xenophanes". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved February 24, 2024.