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Year 431 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.At the time, to Romans it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Cincinnatus and Mento (or, less frequently, year 323 Ab urbe condita).
The Delian League in 431 BC. The Thirty Years' Peace was first tested in 440 BC, when Athens's powerful ally Samos rebelled from its alliance with Athens. The rebels quickly secured the support of a Persian satrap, and Athens faced the prospect of revolts throughout its empire. The Spartans, whose intervention would have been the trigger for a ...
The Delian League in 431 BC. The Thirty Years' Peace was first tested in 440 BC, when Athens's powerful ally, Samos, rebelled from its alliance with Athens. The rebels quickly secured the support of a Persian satrap, and Athens found itself faced with the prospect of revolts throughout its empire. If the Spartans intervened at that moment, they ...
[b] Another confusing factor is that Pericles is known to have delivered another funeral oration in BC 440 during the Samian War. [8] It is possible that elements of both speeches are represented in Thucydides's version. Nevertheless, Thucydides was extremely meticulous in his documentation, and records the varied certainty of his sources each ...
Medea was first performed in 431 BC at the City Dionysia festival. [6] Here every year, three tragedians competed against each other, each writing a tetralogy of three tragedies and a satyr play (alongside Medea were Philoctetes, Dictys and the satyr play Theristai).
The League's treasury initially stood in Delos until, in a symbolic gesture, [13] Pericles moved it to Athens in 454 BC. [14] By 431 BC, the threat that the League presented to Spartan hegemony combined with Athens's heavy-handed control of the Delian League prompted the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War; the League was dissolved upon the war's ...
Odrysian kingdom & Environs,431 BC. Sitalces (Sitalkes) (/ s ɪ ˈ t æ l ˌ s iː z /; Ancient Greek: Σιτάλκης; reigned 431–424 BC) was one of the kings of the Thracian Odrysian state. [1] The Suda called him Sitalcus (Σίταλκος). [2] He was the son of Teres I, and on the sudden
431 BC: Defeat of the Aequi by the Romans under the dictator Aulus Postumius Tubertus. 431 BC: The Greek physician and philosopher Empedocles articulates the notion that the human body has four humors: blood, bile, black bile, and phlegm, a belief that dominates medical thinking for centuries.