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EURIPIDES.

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CHRONOLOGY—(continued).

OL.	B.C.	POLITICAL CHRONICLE.	LITERARY AND ARTISTIC CHRONICLE.
	429	Capture of Potidæa.	Birth of Plato and probably of Xenophon.
87.4		Death of Pericles.	Eupolis begins to exhibit comedies.
	428	Expeditions of Phormion to Acarnania. Revolt of Mytilene. Third invasion of Attica.	Death of Anaxagoras (aged 72). Euripides' Hippolytus (first prize).
88.1		Appeal of the Mitylenæans at Olympia. Escape of 220 Platæans from their besiegement.
	427	Death of Archidamos. Fourth invasion of Attica. Surrender of Mytilene.	Aristophanes' Daitaleis (second prize). Embassy of Gorgias from Leontini to Athens.
88.2		Surrender of Platæa, and massacre of the inhabitants. Civil war in Corcyra. Renewed pestilence at Athens.
	426		Aristophanes' Babylonians.
88.3		Demosthenes in Acarnania. Lustration of Delos.	Zeuxia eminent.
	425	Eurymedon and Sophocles bring a fleet into Sicilian waters. Demosthenes cuts off the Spartans at Sphakteria by defeating their fleet at Pylos. Fifth invasion of Attica.	Aristophanes' Acharnians (first prize). About this time the Hecuba.