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Greece
★ Convicted in
Sparta on the charge of accepting a bribe from the Aleudae family whilst leading an expedition to Thessaly against the family for their collaboration with the Persians, the Spartan King
Leotychides flees to the temple of Athena Alea in
Tegea,
Arcadia. A sentence of exile is passed upon him; his house is razed, and his grandson,
Archidamus II, ascends the Spartan throne in his place.
★
Kimon of
Athens increases his power at the expense of
Themistocles. He ousts
Pausanias and the Spartans from the area around the
Bosporus. The Spartans, hearing that Pausanias is intriguing with the
Persians, recall him and he is "disciplined".
★ Under the leadership of Kimon, the
Delian League continues to fight the Persians and to release the
Ionian cities from Persian domination. Athens' capture of
Eion on the
Strymon from the Persians is led by Kimon.
By topic
Literature
★ The Greek poet
Pindar visits
Sicily and is made welcome at the courts of
Theron of
Acragas and
Hieron I of
Syracuse. They commission some of his greatest poetry. It is through these connections that Pindar's reputation spreads all over the Greek world.
Births
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Deaths
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Zhou Jing Wang (Ji Gai), King of the
Zhou Dynasty of
China
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