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Centuries: 4th century BC - 5th century BC - 6th century BC Decades: 500s BC 490s BC 480s BC 470s BC 460s BC - 450s BC - 440s BC 430s BC 420s BC 410s BC 400s BC Years: 462 BC 461 BC 460 BC 459 BC 458 BC - 457 BC - 456 BC 455 BC 454 BC 453 BC 452 BC 457 BC - Events. Pericles, Athenian statesman, inaugrates Golden Age of Ancient Athens. Battle of Tanagra–The Spartans defeat the Athenians, near Thebes Battle of Oenophyta–The Athenians defeat the T ...

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Centuries: 4th century BC - 5th century BC - 6th century BC Decades: 500s BC 490s BC 480s BC 470s BC 460s BC - 450s BC - 440s BC 430s BC 420s BC 410s BC 400s BC Years: 465 BC 464 BC 463 BC 462 BC 461 BC - 460 BC - 459 BC 458 BC 457 BC 456 BC 455 BC 460 BC - Events. Egypt revolts against Persia, starting a six year war. An Athenian force sent to attack Cyprus is diverted to support this revolt. Cincinnatus ...

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Centuries: 4th century BC - 5th century BC - 6th century BC Decades: 510s BC 500s BC 490s BC 480s BC 470s BC - 460s BC - 450s BC 440s BC 430s BC 420s BC 410s BC Years: 467 BC 466 BC 465 BC 464 BC 463 BC - 462 BC - 461 BC 460 BC 459 BC 458 BC 457 BC 462 BC - Events. The revolt of Thasos against the Delian League comes to an end with their surrender. 462 BC - Births. Including:

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Boeotia or Beotia (World Book «bee OH shuh») (Greek Βοιωτια; see also List of traditional Greek place names) was the central area of ancient Greece. It is also a prefecture of modern Greece, see Boeotia Prefecture. The oldest city of Greece was sited there and was named Graia (Γραία) which means ancient or old. From the name of this city the word "Greece" derives. Aristotle said that this city was created before the deluge. The same assertion about the origins of Graia city was found also in an ancient marb ...

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This is a list of the eponymous archons of Athens. Archons of Athens - Background. The archon was the chief magistrate in many Greek cities, but in Athens there were three archons, the archon eponymous, the polemarch (replaced in 501 BC by ten strategoi), and the basileus (the ceremonial remnant of the Athenian monarchy). After 683 BC the offices were held for only a single year, and the year was named after the archon eponymous. The archon eponymous was the chief archon, and pre ...

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Centuries: 4th century BC - 5th century BC - 6th century BC Decades: 500s BC 490s BC 480s BC 470s BC 460s BC - 450s BC - 440s BC 430s BC 420s BC 410s BC 400s BC Years: 464 BC 463 BC 462 BC 461 BC 460 BC - 459 BC - 458 BC 457 BC 456 BC 455 BC 454 BC 459 BC - Events. Pleistoanax succeeds his father Pleistarchus as king of Sparta. Destruction of the Sicilian town of Morgantina by Douketios, leader of the Sikels, according to Diodoros Siculus Ezra leads the second ...

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Centuries: 6th century BC - 5th century BC - 4th century BC Decades: 510s BC 500s BC 490s BC 480s BC 470s BC - 460s BC - 450s BC 440s BC 430s BC 420s BC 410s BC Years: 466 BC 465 BC 464 BC 463 BC 462 BC - 461 BC - 460 BC 459 BC 458 BC 457 BC 456 BC 461 BC - Events. Athenian politician Cimon is ostracized 461 BC - Births. 461 BC - Deaths. Ephialtes, leader of the radical democrats, assasina ...

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In Athens' great conflict with Sparta, the Peloponnesian War of 432 BC to 404 BC, the walls came to be of paramount importance. Pericles, the leader of Athens from the start of the war until his death in 429 BC, based his strategy for the conflict around them. Knowing that the Spartans would attempt to draw the Athenians into a land battle by ravaging their crops, as they had in the 440s, he commanded the Athenians to remain behind the walls and rely on their navy to win the war for them. As a result, the campaigns of the first few years of ...

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The government of Rome, the res publica, was already shared between the original Romans, Latin and Sabine peoples. For example, the Quinctia gens who had a great impact on Roman public life during that time was of Latin origin. Hernici were allied to Rome; the Etruscans were not yet involved against the Romans, but Veius, very close to Rome. The greatest enemies of Rome were Volsci and Aequi. The Volsci were from the territory west of Rome. The Aequi latters from east would attack, whether allied or alone, Rome and its surround ...

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The archon was the chief magistrate in many Greek cities, but in Athens there were three archons, the archon eponymous, the polemarch (replaced in 501 BC by ten strategoi), and the archon basileus (the ceremonial remnant of the Athenian monarchy). After 683 BC the offices were held for only a single year, and the year was named after the archon eponymous. The archon eponymous was the chief archon, and presided over meetings of the Boule and Ecclesia, the ancient Athenian assemblies. The archon eponymous remained t ...

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The archon was the chief magistrate in many Greek cities, but in Athens there were three archons, the archon eponymous, the polemarch (replaced in 501 BC by ten strategoi), and the basileus (the ceremonial remnant of the Athenian monarchy). After 683 BC the offices were held for only a single year, and the year was named after the archon eponymous. The archon eponymous was the chief archon, and presided over meetings of the Boule and Ecclesia, the ancient Athenian assemblies. The archon eponymous remained the titu ...

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The building of the Long Walls reflected a larger strategy that Athens had come to follow in the early 5th century. Unlike most Greek city states, which specialized in fielding hoplite armies, Athens, since the time the building of her first fleet during a war with Aegina in the 480s BC, had focused on the navy as the center of its military. With the founding of the Delian League in 477 BC, Athens became committed to the long term prosecution of a naval war against the Persians. Over the following decades, the Athenian navy became the mainst ...

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The first walls at Athens were built shortly following the end of the Persian Wars, during which the city had been burned by the Persians prior to the battle at Salamis. Before that time, Athens had been protected only by the fortifications of the acropolis. At the time, Sparta objected to the building of the walls, but Themistocles was dispatched to soothe the Spartans, and the construction went ahead. In 461 BC, construction was begun on an expansion to the walls, which would connect Athens to its port at Piraeus. Completed in 457 BC, these were the Long Walls, and they ensured that Athens could not be cut off from ...

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Cincinnatus choose his magister equitum, and levied in Campus Martius each available Roman, requiring them to bring food for five days and twelve valli. The vallus was the pole brought by each Roman soldier, and used to build a wall all around the camp to protect it; a requirement of twelve valli instead of one was unusual. The Roman army arrived at Mons Algidus by night. Cincinnatus signalled to the besieged Romans that he had arrived, then ordered his men to built a wall all around the Aequi. The Aequi at ...

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