From the Beginning to Plato

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Politics and religion The arts
411 Rule of 400 at Athens Aristophanes,
Lysistrata and
Thesmophoriazusai
409 Sophocles, Philoctetes
408 Euripides, Orestes
407 Return of Alcibiades to
Athens Spartan treaty
with Persia
406 Battle of Arginusai and
trial of generals
(Socrates a member of
presiding board)
Carthaginian invasion
of Sicily
405 Defeat of Athenian
fleet at Aegospotamoi
Dionysius I establishes
tyranny at Syracuse
405–4 Siege of Athens
404 Surrender of Athens
404–3 Rule of Thirty Tyrants
at Athens: Lysias goes
into exile: Socrates
refuses to take part in
arrest of Leon of
Salamis Death of
Alcibiades
403 Restoration of
democracy at Athens:
death of Critias
395–3 Rebuilding of Long
Walls at Athens
406 Death of Sophocles
Death of Euripides
405 Aristophanes, Frogs
Euripides, Bacchae
and Iphigenia in Aulis
(produced
posthumously)
401 Sophocles, Oedipus at
Colonus (produced
posthumously)
c.400 Death of Thucydides
Temple of Apollo,
Bassai
1st, half of 4th cent. Lysias active (d.c.380)
Xenophon active (d.c.
354)