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CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE

TO ILLUSTRATE THE LIFE OF SOPHOCLES.^[1]

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B.C.

525. Birth of Æschylos.

510. Expulsion of the Peisistratidæ. Democratic constitution of Cleisthenes.

500. Birth of Anaxagoras.

499. Æschylos exhibits his first tragedy.

497. Death of Pythagoras (?)

495. Birth of Sophocles.

490. Battle of Marathon.

485. Xerxes succeeds Dareios.

484. Birth of Herodotos. Æschylos gains the prize in tragedy.

480. Athens taken by Xerxes. Battle of Salamis. Sophocles leads the chorus of victory. Birth of Euripides.

479. Athens taken by Mardonios.

477. Commencement of Athenian Supremacy.

476. Bones of Theseus discovered in Skyros.

472. The Persæ of Æschylos.

471. Birth of Thucydides.

468. Sophocles gains his first victory in tragedy. The Triptolemos. Birth of Socrates.

1. Taken chiefly from Dr Smith's Dictionary of Classical Biography.