GREEK HISTORY. isa B.C. 439 437 436 435 Melissus the philosopher defends Samos against Pericles. A decree to prohibit comedy at Athens. Athens at the height of its glory. Colony of Agnon to Amphipolis. The prohibition of comedy repealed. Isocrates bom. Cratiniis, the comic poet, gains the prize. War between the Corinthians and Corcy- raeans on account of Epidamniis. The Corinthians defeated by the Corcyraeans in a sea-fight. The Corinthians make great preparations to carry on the war with vigour. Lysippus, the comic poet, gains the prize. The Corcyraeans and Corinthians send em- bassies to Athens to solicit assistance. The Athenians form a defensive alliance with the Corcyraeans. The Corcyraeans assisted by the Athenians defeat the Corinthians in the spring. In the same year Potidaea revolts from Athens. Congress of the Peloponnesians in the autumn to decide upon war with Athens. Andocides the orator, one of the com- manders of the Athenian fleet, to protect the Corcyraeans against the Corinthians. Anaxagoras prosecuted for impiety at Athens, withdraws to Lampsacus, where he died about four years afterwards, Aspasia, prosecuted by the comic poet Hermippus, but acquitted through the in- fluence of Pericles. Prosecution and death of Pheidias. [See Vol. III. pp. 248, 249.] First year of the Peloponnesian war. The Thebans make an attempt upon Plataeae two months before midsummer. Eighty days afterwards Attica is invaded by the Peloponnesians. Alliance between the Athenians and Sitalces king of Thrace. Hellanicus aet. 65, Herodotus aet. 53, Thucydides aet. 40, at the commencement of the Peloponnesian war. The Medea of Euripides exhibited. Second year of the Peloponncs'an war. Se- cond invasion of Attica. The plague rages at Athens. Third year of the Peloponnesian war. Po- tidaea surrenders to the Athenians after a siege of more than two years. Naval actions of Phonnio in the Corinthian gulph. Commencement of the siege of Plataeae. Death of Pericles in the autumn. Birth of Plato, the philosopher. Eupolis and Phrynichus, the comic poets, exhibit. Fourth year of the Peloponnesian war. Third invasion of Attica. Revolt of all Lesbos except Methymnae. Mytilene besieged towards the autumn. Death of Anaxagoras, aet. 72. The Hippolytus of Euripides gains the first prize. Plato the comic poet first exhibits. Fifth year of the Peloponnesian war. Fourth invasion of Attica. Mytilene taken by the Athenians and Lesbos recovered. The demagogue Cleon begins to have great in- 426 425 424 423 422 421 420 419 418 fluence in public affairs. Plataeae sur- rendered to the Peloponnesians. Sedition at Corcyra. The Athenians send assistance to the Leontines in Sicily. Aristophanes, the comic poet, first ex hibits. He gains the prize with the play called AatTaAels, which is lost. Gorgias ambassador from Leontini to Athens. He was probably now nearly 60 years of age. Sixth year of the Peloponnesian war. The Peloponnesians do not invade Attica in consequence of an earthquake. Lustration of Delos. The Babylonians of Aristophanes. Seventh year of the Peloponnesian war. Fifth invasion of Attica. Demosthenes takes possession of Pylos. The Spartans in the island of Sphacteria surrendered to Cleon seventy-two days afterwards. Eruption of Mount Aetna. Accession of Dareius Nothus. The Acharnians of Aristophanes. Eighth year of the Peloponnesian war. Ni- cias ravages the coast of Laconia and captures the island of Cythera. March of Brasidas into Thrace, who obtains pos- session of Acanthus and Amphipolis. The Athenians defeated by the Theb.ans at Delium. Socrates and Xenophon fought at the battle of Delium. Thucydides, the historian, commanded at Amphipolis. The Knights of Aristophanes. Ninth year of the Peloponnesian war. Truce for a year, Thucydides banished in consequence of the loss of Amphipolis. He was 20 years in exile. The Clouds of Aristophanes first ex- hibited. Antiochus of Syracuse brought down his history to this date. Tenth year of the Peloponnesian war. Hos- tilities in Thrace between the Lacedae- monians and Athenians. Both Brasidas and Cleon fall in battle. Athenian citi- zens at this time computed at 20,000. The Wasps of Aristophanes and second exhibition of the Clouds. Death of Cratinus. Protagoras, the sophist, comes to Athens. Eleventh year of the Peloponnesian war. Truce for fifty years between the Athe- nians and Lacedaemonians. Though this truce was not formally declared to be at an end till B. c. 414, there we're notwithstand- ing frequent hostilities meantime. The MapiKcis and KoAa/ces of Eupolis. Twelfth year of the Pelop mnesian war. Treaty l»etween the Athenians and Argives effected by means of Alcibiades. The"'A7p/ot of Pherecrates. The Au- t6vko5 of Eupolis. Thirteenth year of the Peloponnesian war, Alcibiades marches into Peloponnesu The Peace of Aristophanes. Fourteenth year of the Peloponnesian war. The Athenians sen a a force into Pelopon-
