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 NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS Book il, 500 b.c. to 200 b.c. GUIDING DATES Greek. The Ionic Revolt • 499 Battle of Marathon • 49o Battle of Salamis . 480 Delian League • 475 Ascendency of Pericles 5 460-429 Peloponnesian War 431-404 Sicilian Expedition • 415-413 Epaminondas 375-362 Philip of Macedon 359-336 Alexander the Great 336-323 Battle of Arbela • 33i Pyrrhus in Macedon . 287 Achaean League . 281 War of Rome and Macedon 200 Roman. Tribunes instituted. . 494 Decemvirs. . . -451 Volscians overthrown. 431 Fall of Veii. . . 396 Gauls take Rome. . 390 Latin League closed. . 385 Licinian Law. . . 367 Samnite wars begin. . 343 Latin League dissolved. 338 Hortensian Law. . . 287 Pyrrhus in Italy. . . 280 First Punic War. 264-241 Second Punic War. 218-202 Macedonian War. . 200 LEADING NAMES Darius— Xerxes— Themistocles— Aristides — Pericles— Alcibiades— Camillus — Epaminondas — Philip — Demosthenes — Alexander- Darius II.— Seleucus— Ptolemy— Pyrrhus— Regulus— Hamilcar Barca —Hannibal— Scipio Africanus. NOTES Greek History. From one point of view, this may be divided into the following periods during these 300 years : (1) Contest of the Hellenes with Persia, lasting half a century, but becoming desultory before the end of that time ; (2) Development of Athenian power 88