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HIS AGE AND SURROUNDINGS.
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412 | War on the coast of Ionia. | Euripides' Andromeda and Helena. | |
92.1 | Peisander and the Attic oligarchs in the camp at Samos. | Aristophanes' Lysistrate. | |
411 | Antiphon and Theramenes bring about the revolution of the 400 at Athens. Resistance of the army at Samos. |
Lysias returns to Athens. Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusæ. | |
92.2 | Deposition of the 400, and constitutional changes. Alkibiades recalled. |
Execution of the orator Antiphon. [Here the history of Thucydides breaks off.] | |
410 | Victory of the Athenians at Kyzikus. Kleophon prominent. |
Prosecution of Diagoras of Melos for impiety. [Perhaps a few years sooner, but certainly not in 468 B.C., as Suidas states, and Clinton supports.] | |
92.3 | Campaigns of Alkibiades in the Hellespont. | ||
409 | Re-establishment of the tribute. The younger Cyrus comes to Asia Minor. |
Aristophanes' Plutus. | |
92.4 | Alkibiades returns in state to Athens. | Sophocles' Philoctetes. | |
408 | Lysander appointed Spartan admiral. | Euripides Orestes, possibly also Electra. | |
93.1 | |||
407 | Antiochus defeated at Notium. Konon replaces Alkibiades as Athenian admiral. |
Commission of Euripides' Bacchæ and Iphigenia in Aulis. | |
93.2 | |||
406 | Kallikratidas, Spartan admiral, blockades Konon at Mitylene. | Euripides dies at Pella. | |
93.3 | Victory of Athenians at Arginusæ and death of Kallicratidas. Kleophon defeats the Spartan proposals for peace. |
Death of Sophocles. |