From the Beginning to Plato

Politics and religion The arts
416 Destruction of Melos by
Athens
415 Sicilian expedition:
Mutilation of the Hermai:
Alcibiades goes over to
Sparta
413 Defeat of Sicilian expedition
413/12 Introduction of cult of Bendis
to Athens (mentioned at
beginning of Plato, Republic)
416 Agathon’s first victory
(celebrated
Symposium)
by Plato,
415 Euripides, Trojan Women
414 Aristophanes, Birds
412 Euripides, Helen
Science and technology Philosophy
late 5th cent. Hippias discovers
quadratrix, compiles
list of Olympic victors
late 5th cent. Democritus, Philolaus
active
2nd half of 5th cent. Democritus states
without proof that
volumes of cone and
pyramid are 1/3
respectively of
volumes of cylinder
and prism.
c.433 Dramatic date of Plato,
Protagoras
Protagoras, Hippias,
Prodicus active
c.430 Anaxagoras exiled
from Athens
c.428 Death of Anaxagoras
427 Birth of Plato
423 Diogenes of Apollonia
active (doctrines
caricatured in Clouds).
c.420 Death of Protagoras
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