Pindar begins writing odes (c. 500 ) Aeschylus’ trilogy, The Oresteia, produced in Athens(458) Ajax (c. 445) Antigone (c. 442—41) Euripides, Medea (431) Oedipus the King (c. 429) Electra (btw. 418 and 410) Aristophanes, Lysistrata (411) Philoctetes (409) Plato, Republic (ca. 406) Oedipus at Colonus (produced 401) Aristotle, Poetics (ca. 350) Mahabharata (Indian heroic epic, in Sanskrit) (probably composed 350 B.C.—350 A.D.) Euclid, Elements (first work of geometry) (323) Ramayana (Indian heroic epic, in Sanskrit, probably composedfrom 300) | 500 B.C. 300 B.C. | Athens becomes the world’s first democracy (508) Sophocles born at Colonus (c. 496) Greece turns back massive Persian invasion (480—79) Sophocles introduces 3rd actor in tragedy; wins first victory over Aeschylus (w. Triptolemus, lost) (468) Reign of Pericles (c. 495—29): flowering of Greek culture (461—29) Work begins on the Acropolis (447) Sophocles elected Treasurer of Confederacy of Delos (442) Sophocles elected strategoi (general) (440) Peloponnesian War with Sparta (431—04) Sophocles elected proboulos, one of 10 advisors entrusted with Athens' recovery after its military defeat at Syracuse
(413) Sophocles dies in Athens (406) Athens falls to Sparta (404) Trial and execution of Socrates for corruption of youth
(399) Plato founds the Academy (c. 387) Theatre at Epidauros built (c. 338) Aristotle founds Lyceum, Peripatetic school of philosophy; Alexander the Great occupies Greece (335) Statue of Sophocles erected at Temple of Dionysus, Athens (330) |
