Thucydides: Introduction Part 1

1. End of the Persian Wars

  • 490 and 480 bce
  • Mitiades - Marathon (490)
  • Themistocles - Salamis (480)
  • 479 bce
  • Plataea - Pausanias
  • Mycale - Xanthippus
  • Pausanias and Themistocles (Thucyd. 1.130-38)

2. Delian League (WSU link)

  • 478 bce
  • symmachia, hegemon, synedrion
  • Byzantium
  • phoros, eisphora, Hellenotamiai
  • Aristides the Just (Plutarch Life of Aristides)
  • Cimon (Plutarch Life of Cimon)
  • Eion, Scyros, Carystus, Naxos
  • Egyptian revolt and Athenian expedition
  • 454/3 bce - transfer of treasury to Athens
  • expedition to Cyprus
  • 449 bce - Peace of Callias
 

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3. First Peloponnesian War (WSU link) 460-445 bce

  • 462/1 bce
  • Megara
  • Halieis and Aegina (460 bce)
  • Boeotia
  • Truce and Periclean decree
  • Coronea, Euboea, Megara
  • 446/445 bce - Thirty Years' Peace