From the Beginning to Plato

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Science and technology Philosophy
determination of
musical intervals
and is first to
apply
mathematical
principles to
mechanics.
Politics and religion The arts
377 Foundation of Second
Athenian Confederacy
371 Battle of Leuctra
370–69 Liberation of Messenia
367 Death of Dionysius I of
Syracuse: succession of
Dionysius II
360 Accession of Philip II of
Macedon: beginning of rise
of Macedon to hegemony in
Greece
351 Demosthenes, First
Philippic
387 Plato’s first visit
to Sicily
Foundation of
Academy
c.356 Praxiteles, altar of Artemis at
Ephesus
352–1 Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
Science and technology Philosophy
384 Birth of Aristotle
367 Plato’s second visit to Sicily Aristotle
joins Academy
361 Plato’s third visit to Sicily
c.360 Birth of Pyrrho, founder of Scepticism
c. mid-cent. Diogenes the Cynic comes to Athens.
347 Death of Plato: Speusippus succeeds
as head of Academy: Aristotle leaves
Athens.