TIMELINE (blue dates exact;
red dates approximate):
|
decade |
Aeschylus |
Sophocles |
Euripides |
other events |
|
490s |
499/96
first plays |
|
|
490
battle of Marathon |
|
480s |
|
|
|
480
battle of Salamis |
|
470s |
478 Prometheus 472
Persians |
|
|
479
battle of Plataia 478/7 foundation of Delian League |
|
460s |
467
Seven vs. Thebes 463 Suppliants |
468
first victory |
|
462/1 democratic reforms of Ephialtes |
|
450s |
458
Oresteia 456/5 death |
|
455
first plays |
459-446 intermittent warfare with allies against Peloponnesians led by
Sparta 454
transfer of Delian League treasury to Athens 451
Pericles’ citizenship law 450
Athens stops fighting Persia |
|
440s |
|
446 Ajax 442 Antigone 441/0 general |
441
first victory |
447-432
construction of Parthenon 446
“Thirty Years’ Peace” with Sparta 443-429 political dominance
of Pericles 440
Samos revolts from Athenian empire; revolt suppressed |
|
430s |
|
435/28
Trachinians |
438
Alcestis 431
Medea |
438 dedication
of Athena statue in Parthenon 432 completion
of Parthenon 431-404 Peloponnesian War vs. Sparta and her allies 430
plague breaks out in Athens |
|
420s |
|
428 Oedipus
T. 427 general 420 Asclepius cult |
428
Hippolytus 427/20 C. of Herc 426 Andromache 424 Hecuba 422 Suppliants |
429-408/7 construction
of Erechtheion 428/7 revolt of Mytilene 421
Peace of Nicias ends 1st part of Peloponnesian War 421
construction of Athena Nike temple 420 Asclepius
cult brought to Athens; Sophocles welcomes god |
|
410s |
|
420/10
Electra 413
proboulos |
417/16
Heracles 417/14 Electra 414 Trojan women 413 Iphig. in Taur. 412 Helen 410 Ion |
416
capture of Melos; men killed, women and children enslaved 415
invasion of Sicily 413
defeat in Sicily; emergency committee of probouloi 413 war with Sparta resumes;
permanent Spartan base at Deceleia in Athenian territory 412-404 naval warfare vs. Sparta
in Aegean 411-410 oligarchic regimes of
400 and 5000 410 democracy restored |
|
400s |
|
409
Philoctetes 406
death 401
Oedipus C. |
409 Phoen.
women 408
Orestes 407
Iphig. in Aul. 406
death 405
Bacchae |
408/7
Erechtheion completed 405
Spartan victory at Aegospotamoi; end of Athenian naval power 404
Athens surrenders to Sparta 404-403 oligarchic regime of Thirty 403
restauration of democracy |
