A few
significant dates in
Classical
Greece
Socrates
(470-399 BC, age 70)
Plato
(428-347 BC, age 81. He's 29 when Socrates dies)
Aristotle
(384-322 BC, age 62. He's 37 when Plato dies)
Hippocrates
(c. 460- ? BC)
Thucydides
(460-398 BC, age 62)
490 BC
Persian Wars (Athens Won)
470 BC Birth of Socrates
(470-399 BC, 70)
431 BC Peloponnesian War begins (431-404). Athens lost. 27 years
(Around age 40 or so Socrates
fought in this war)
430 BC Plague kills 1/2 the population, including Pericles. Second
year of war
428 BC Birth of Plato
(428-347, 81) at Athens. Fourth year of Peloponnesian War
423 BC Aristophanes
comedy The Clouds
performed (parody of Socrates)
416 BC Agathon presents his first tragedy, gives the party recounted
in Plato's Symposium.
415 BC (The Melian Dialog, in Thucydides'
History)
411 BC Setting date for The
Republic
404 BC End of the Peloponnesian War. Athens surrenders to
Sparta. Reign of the "Thirty Tyrants." Plato
is 18
400 BC Thucydides dies
399 BC Socrates'
trial and execution for impiety and corrupting the youth.(Socrates
is 70 years old, Plato
is 29)
399-387BC Plato
writes the Early dialogues: Euthyphro,
Apology, Crito, Laches, Charmides, Ion,
Lysis, Protagoras, & Gorgias
387BC Plato's
first trip to Syracuse; friendship with Dion, son in law and brother in
law of Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse
386BC Foundation of Plato's
Academy at Athens
386-67BC Middle dialogues written: Meno,
Cratylus, Euthydemus, Phaedo, Symposium, Menexenus,
Republic, Phaedrus, Parmenides, Theaetetus
384BC Birth of Aristotle
(384-322, 62) at Stagirus, in Macedonia
3??BC Plato's
second trip to Syracuse, attempt to educate Dionysius II into a Philosopher-king.
Aristotle
joins the Academy at age 17. Plato
dies 20 years later
366-61BC Sophist,
Statesman written
361BC Plato's
third trip to Syracuse
360-347BC Late dialogues written: Philebus,
Timaeus, Critias, Laws
356BC Birth of Alexander the Great in Pella, Macedonia
347BC Death of Plato
in Athens. Aristotle
is 37
Socrates
(470-399 BC, age 70)
Plato
(428-347 BC, age 81. He's 29 when Socrates dies)
Aristotle
(384-322 BC, age 62. He's 37 when Plato dies)
Hippocrates
(c. 460- ? BC)
Thucydides
(460-398 BC, age 62)
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