LLT 325 -- Greek Civilization Chronology 411-322
[417-413 probable date of Sophocles' Electra]
413 Sicilian Disaster. Ten Commissioners (probouloi)] Spartans occupy Decelea
412 Chios, Miletus and Mitylene revolt. Treaty of Miletus links Persia and Sparta
411 Rhodes revolts. Aristophanes' Lysistrata.
Oligarchic coup at Athens led by Pisander, Antiphon and Phrynichus: the Four Hundred.
411/10 Alcibiades with the army on Samos, victorious at Cyzicus
410 Four Hundred overthrown; interim regime of Five Thousand
Trial and execution of Antiphon.
409 Sophocles' Philoctetes.
407 Alcibiades returns, backed by Thrasybulus, special high command.
407/6 Death of Euripides (in Thrace); posthumous production of Bacchae.
406 Defeat at Notium; Alcibiades deposed, goes again into exile.
Athenian victory at Arginusae; Generals condemned for 'treason.'
405 Defeat of Athens at Aegospotami; Spartans led by Lysander. Death of Sophocles.
404 Blockade of Athens by Lysander. Surrender on terms of disarmament and
Spartan Hegemony. Spartan governors and local decarchies in the allied cities
Thirty Commissioners assume power, led by Critias and Theramenes:
'proscriptions'; execution of Theramenes.
403 Democrats return, led by Thrasyboulus. Death of Critias at Munychia.
403/2 New Democracy at Athens; 'amnesty' and 'sovereignty of Law'
401 Xenophon with the Ten Thousand back Cyrus in Persia.
399 Trial and execution of Socrates (for impiety and corruption of the youth).
399-5 Spartan successes against Persia in Asia Minor.
395-4 Corinthian War: Athens allied with her old adversary, decisively defeated.
392 (probable date) Aristophanes' Congresswomen.
387 King's Peace: Sparta cedes Greek cities in Asia to Persia.
378/7 Second Athenian Confederacy.
371 Theban victory over Sparta (at Leuctra near Thebes): Theban Hegemony (to 363)
357-1 Philip II of Macedon seizes Amphipolis, gradually takes possession of Athenian
allies in Thrace. Demosthenes' Philippics. Death of Plato (ca. 354).
338 Defeat of Athens and Thebans at Chaeroneia. Philip asserts hegemony.
336 Death of Philip, accession of Alexander
334-324 Alexander's Eastern Conquests.
323 Death ofAlexander. Revolt of Greece
322 Antipater of Macedon defeats the Greeks at Crannon (in Thessaly).
At Athens democratic constitution abrogated; Macedonian garrison.
Deaths of Demosthenes and Aristotle.