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HIS AGE AND SURROUNDINGS.

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	438		Completion of the Parthenon. Euripides' Alcestis.
85.3			Sophocles appointed Strategus. The prohibitions against comedy repealed.
	437	Foundation of Amphipolis.	Commencement of the Propylæa by Mnesicles.
85.4			Law restraining comedy.
	436		Pheidias at Olympia.
86.1			Birth of Isocrates.
	*		Cratinus gains a victory in comedy.
	434	Quarrel of Corinth and Corcyra about Epidamnos.
86.3
	433
86.4		Alliances of Corcyra and Rhegium with Athens.	Meton invents a sun-cloxk, and reforms the calendar at Athens.
	432	The Chalcidice revolts from Athens.	Anaxagoras prosecuted for impiety.
87.1		Siege of Potidæa by Phormion. Preparations for war between Athens and Sparta. Attacks on Pericles.	Death of Phidias.
	431	Peloponnesian War. Attacks on Pericles' friends and party.	Anaxagoras leaves Athens. Hippocrates prominent.
87.2		First invasion of Attica by Peloponnesians.	Euripides' Medea (third prize). Pericles' funeral oration.
	430	The plague at Athens. Second invasion.	Attacks of Hermippus (the comic poet) on Pericles.
87.3		Deposing and reinstatement of Pericles. Athenian mission to Susa.