From the Beginning to Plato

Politics and religion The arts
508/7 Reforms of
Cleisthenes: full
democracy
established at Athens
500–494 Ionian revolt against
Persia
Science and technology Philosophy
early 6th cent. Geometrical
discoveries
attributed to Thales
(see Ch. 8)
Anaximander’s
world map
vase painting at
Athens
c.510–480 Technique for
making large hollowcast
bronze statues
perfected
c.500 Kleophrades Painter
and Berlin Painter
active at Athens
500–490 Temple of Athena
Aphaia, Aegina
585 Eclipse allegedly
predicted by Thales
Anaximander,
Anaximenes active
c.575–560 Earliest electrum c.570–c.550 Birth of Pythagoras
coins
Ionia
minted in
546 (?) Xenophanes
into exile
goes
c.540–c.522 Polycrates’ tunnel c.540–c.520 Foundation
Pythagorean
of
community at
c.520 Earliest Athenian
owl coinage
Late 6th-early 5th
cent.
Hecataeus, Journey
Round the World,
world map and
work on mythology
and genealogy
Croton
c.540 Foundation of Elea
xiii
c.515 Birth of Parmenides
c.500 Heraclitus active
Birth of Anaxagoras
Birth of Protagoras