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5th Century B.C. Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome Timeline
FIFTH CENTURY
  • Blue dots = Events in Ancient Roman Timeline
  • Red dots = Events in Ancient Greek Timeline

Bronze Age Greece
Dark Age Greece
Archaic Age Greece
500-490
490-480
480-470
470-460
460-450
450-440
440-430
430-420
420-410
410-400

In the table below, in the right column are links to pages on the Ancient / Classical History site related to the time periods listed on the left.

[Fifth century]
- to 400 B.C.


480 B.C.: Athens recalls ostracized citizens. (August) Thermopylae. (September) Salamis. (October) Solar eclipse.

479 B.C.: Platea. Mycale.
479 B.C.: Carthaginians invade Sicily. Battle of the Cremera.
477 B.C.: Delian League founded.
474 B.C.: Heiro of Syracuse defeats the Etruscans near Cumae.
472-1 B.C.: Ostracism of Themistocles.
471 B.C. : Lex Publilia Voleronis grants official recognition to the concilium plebis and tribuni plebis.
470 B.C.: Pindar's 1st Pythian. Bacchylides' 4th Ode.

c. 469 B.C.: Number of tribunes raised to ten.
468 B.C.: Battle of the Eurymedon.
467-462 B.C.: Athens led by Cimon.
467 B.C.: Delian League defeats Persia at battle of Eurymedon River.
465 B.C.: Revolt of isle of Thasos against Delian League.
464 B.C.: Revolt of helots.
463 B.C.: Surrender of Thasos.
461 B.C.: Ostracism of Cimon.
460 B.C.: First Peloponnesian War. Thucydides born.

Pericles and Aspasia
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Pericles
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Anaxagoras
Aeschylus
Aspasia of Miletus
Bacchylides (b. c. 518 B.C.)
Cincinnatus
Classical Age of Greece
Cleomenes
Coriolanus
Empedocles
Euripides
Greek Eroticism
Greek Historians
Herodotus (480-425 B.C.)
Hippocrates (c. 470-c. 410 B.C.)
Leucippus of Miletus (c. 480-c. 420 B.C.)
Medea
Miletus
Oedipus
Parmenides (c. 515-c. 445 B.C.)
Peloponnesian War Timeline
Pericles (Perikles)
Persian Wars Timeline
Presocratics
Protagoras (480-411 B.C.)
Pythagoras
Sophocles
Sparta II
Theognis (fl. 544 B.C.)
Thucydides (471? 460?- c. 399 B.C.)
Xenophanes
Zeno
Zeno of Elea (c. 490-c. 430 B.C.)
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