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 206 CHEONOLOGY OF ^HE GREEK DRAMA. Olympiad. The Drama. Contemporary Persons and Events. LXXIII. 2. LXXIV. I, LXXVI. J LXXVIII. I. LXXX. 3. LXXXI. I. LXXXII. 2. 3. LXXXIII, I. LXXXIV. 4. LXXXVI. 2. Chionides first exhibits. J^schylus gains his first tragic prize. Euripides born. Epicharmi 'Naaoi. Phrynichus victor with his 4'ot- fiacrai. Themisiocles choragus. jEscliyli UipaaL, ^luevs, TXauKos IIoT//tei;s, npojj,7]devs Hvp^opos. Sophocles gains his first tragic prize. jEschylus goes to Sicily, jEscTiyli 'Opearela. ^schylus again retires to Sicily. jEschylus dies. Euripides exhibits the Peliades. Aristarchus, of Tegea, the trage- dian, and Cratinus, the comic poet, flourish. Ion of Chios begins to exhibit. Crates exhibits. Cratini 'ApxO^oxoi. Achceus Eretriensis, the tragedian. Euripides gains the first tragic prize. Comedy prohibited by a public decree. The prohibition of comedy re- Phrynichus, the comic poet, first exhibits. Lysippus, the comic poet, is vic- torious. Birth of Herodotus. Thermopylse, Salamis. — Leoni- das, Aristides, Themistodes. — Pherecydes, the historian. — Gelon of Syracuse, Hiero succeeds Gelon, B.C. 478. Simonides gains the prize 'AvdpQu Xoy3(p. Birth of Thucydides, B.C. 471. Socrates born. — Mycense destroy- ed by the Argives. — Death of Simonides, B.C. 467. Anaxagoras. Birth of Lysias. Herodotus at Olympia. End of the Messenian and Egyp- tian wars. — Empedocles and Zeno. — Pericles. Bacckylides, the lyric poet. — Ar- chelaus, the philosopher. Death of Cimon, B.C. 449. Battle of Coronea. Herodotus and Lysias go with the colonists to Thurium, B.C. 443. The Saraian war, in which Sopho- cles is colleague with Pericles. Isocrates born, b. C. 436. Sea-fight between the Corinthians and Corcyraeans. Andocides, Meton, Aspasia.