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Sophocles' Birth
Sophocles is born at Colonus, which became the setting of some of his most famous plays. His father was Sophilus a weathy member of his rual community, no one knows who is mother was.
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Death of Pythagoras
Pythagoras was an Ionian Greek philosopher, mathematician, and founder of the religious movement called Pythagoreanism. Pythagoras made influential contributions to philosophy and religion in the late 6th century BC. He is often revered as a great mathematician, mystic, and scientist and is best known for the Pythagorean theorem which bears his name. -
Thepis becomes the first actor.
According to certain Ancient Greek sources and especially Aristotle, Thepis was the first person ever to appear on stage as an actor playing a character in a play. He is credited with introducing a new style in which one singer or actor performed the words of individual characters in the stories, distinguishing between the characters with the aid of different masks. -
Greek historian Herodotus is born
Herodotus, known as the ‘Father of History’ is born. he was the first historian known to collect his materials systematically and critically, and then to arrange them into a historiographic narrative. His reliability is sometimes debated but overall most historians agree with his works. -
Persian War
The first Persian War begins began in 492 BC, and ended with the decisive Athenian victory at the battle of Marathon in 490 BC.The invasion was ordered by the Persian king Darius I primarily in order to punish the city-states of Athens and Eretria. -
Themistocles seizes power in Athens
His name meaning "glory or law", Themistocles rose to power in the early years of Politics in Greece. In the years after Marathon, and in the run up to the second Persian invasion he became the most prominent politician in Athens. He continued to advocate a strong Athenian navy, and in 483 BC he persuaded the Athenians to build a fleet of 200 triremes. -
Battle of Marathon
The Battle of Marathon took place in 490 BC, during the first Persian invasion of Greece. It was fought between the citizens of Athens, aided by Plataea, and a Persian force commanded by Datis and Artaphernes. The battle was the culmination of the first attempt by Persia, under King Darius I, to subjugate Greece. -
Death of Darius
Also called Darius the Great, Darius was the King of Persia that ordered the first invasion of Greece. Darius had spent three years preparing men and ships for a second invasion of Greece when a revolt broke out in Egypt. This revolt in Egypt worsened his failing health and prevented the possibility of his leading another army. Soon after, Darius died. -
Xerxes Rises to powr in Persia
Xerxes, meaning "ruling over heroes", He ruled from 486 BC until his murder in 465 BC. He took the throne after his father, Darius I, died. Xerxes continued his fathers task of punishing Athens and many other city-states in Greece. In 465 BC, Xerxes was murdered by Artabanus, the commander of the royal bodyguard in a revolt against him. -
Ionian revolt defeated by Persians
The Ionian Revolt, and associated revolts in Aeolis, Doris, Cyprus and Caria, and were military rebellions by several Greek regions of Asia against Persian rule, lasting from 499 BC to 494 BC.In 498 BC, supported by troops from Athens and Eretria, the Ionians marched on, captured, and burnt Sardis. Darius I would then invade Atens and other Greek city-states in order to punish them for helping the Ionians