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HIS AGE AND SURROUNDINGS.
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Phrynichus the tragedian gains the prize, Themistocles being choregus. | |||
| 475 | Organizing of the Delian Confederacy. | Simonides, aged 80, wins a lyric prize. | |
| 76.2 | |||
| 474 | Prosecution of king Pausanias. | Pindar's 7th Pythian Ode. | |
| 76.3 | |||
| 473 | |||
| 76.4 | The Persæ of Æschylus. | ||
| 472 | |||
| 77.1 | Pindar's 2nd and 12th Olympic Odes. | ||
| 471 | Birth of Thucydides the historian. Timocreon the Rhodian "flourished." | ||
| 77.2 | Banishment of Themistocles. | ||
| 470 | |||
| 77.3 | Kimon becomes the leading statesman at Athens. | Pindar's 1st Pythian Ode. | |
| 469 | Archidamos succeeds Leotychides at Sparta. | Polygnotus, the painter, and Bakchylides the lyric poet, eminent. | |
| 77.4 | |||
| 468 | [The alleged late destruction of Mycenæ by Argos in 468 B.C. is to be rejected, though generally asserted by late writers.] | Birth of Socrates. First tragic victory of Sophocles, probably with the Triptolemus. | |
| 78.1 | |||
| 467 | Death of Pausanias. Flight of Themistocles. Death of Aristides. | Birth of Andokides. Death of Simonides, aged 90. | |
| 78.2 | Pericles begins to assume importance. | Panyasis (epic poet and uncle of Herodotus), eminent. | |
| 466 | Democracy restored at Syracuse. | [The alleged appearance of the atheist Diagoras of Melos, at this time, is to be rejected, and placed about 50 years earlier.] | |
| 78.3 | |||
| 465 | Death of Xerxes. | ||
| 78.4 | Kimon's victory at the Eurymedon. |
