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CHRONOLOGY OF EURIPIDES' LIFE AND TIMES.

OL.	B.C.	POLITICAL CHRONICLE.	LITERARY AND ARTISTIC CHRONICLE.
	480		Pindar 38 years old.
75.1		Battle of Thermopylæ. Battle of Salamis (20th September). Victory of Gelon and Theron over the Carthaginians.	Pherecydes the historian "flourished". Æschylus and Anaxagoras at Athens. Birth of Euripides. [But the Parian marble consistently asserts him to have been born 485 B.C.
	479
75.2		Battle of Platæa. Battle of Mycale. Commencement of the Ionic Confederacy. Conquest of Sestos.	Birth of Antiphon the orator. Birth of Chœrilus of Samos.
	478	The re-building of Athens and fortifying of the Piræus.	The sculptors Ageladas of Argos, Canachus and Aristokles of Sicyon, Callon and Onatas of Ægina, had already developed sculpture, and were probably old.
75.3		Reforms of Aristides.	Calamis rising; also Pythagoras of Rhegium, the sculptor.
	477		Epicharmus' Islands.
75.4		Conquest of Cyprus by the Greeks.
	476	Conquest of Byzantium. Transference of the Hegemony to Athens.	Pindar's 14th Olympic Ode.
76.1		Hiero, tyrant of Gela and Syracuse. Founding of Ætna.	Epicharmos, Sophron, Æschylus, Pindar, and Simonides at Syracuse; also Korax the rhetor.