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Period: 495 BCE to 429 BCE
Pericles Dies
Athenian statesman -
431 BCE
Peloponnesian War
Sparta used Persian gold Cyrus to build up their fleet this stirred up trouble with the Athenians and destroys the Athenian fleet at the battle of Aegosotami. -
430 BCE
Plague struck Athens
The Plague killed Pericles and a lot of the two thirds of the Athenian army. -
415 BCE
Athenian Expedition To Sicily
Sicily is a city in Italy -
Period: 3 to 4
Athens Vs Sparta
The first couple years of the conflict are known as Archidamian War after Spartan King Archidamus. For that period was “Freedom for the Greeks,” and its stated aim was to liberate the states under Athenian rule by destroying its defences and dismantling its structure. As Spartan forces surrounded Athens in a siege, decimating the countryside and farmland, Pericles declined to engage against them near the city’s walls, instead leading naval cam -
404
Athens Serenders
Sparta used Persian gold Cyrus to build up their fleet this stirred up trouble with the Athenians and destroys the Athenian fleet at the battle of Aegosotami.