Year 409 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Cossus and Medullinus (or, less frequently...

control of the whole Bosporus. 409 BC: The city of Rhodes is founded. 409 BC: The Carthaginians invade Sicily. 408 BC: The Persian king, Darius II, decides...

This article concerns the period 409 BC – 400 BC. Alcibiades recaptures Byzantium, ending the city's rebellion from Athens. This action completes Athenian...

great Carthaginian defeat of 480 BC, the Second Battle of Himera was fought near the city of Himera in Sicily in 409 between the Carthaginian forces under...

spelled Plistoanax, (Greek: Πλειστοάναξ) was Agiad king of Sparta from 458 to 409 BC. He was the leader of the peace party in Sparta at a time of violent confrontations...

in time to take part in the defeat of the Athenians under Thrasyllus in 409 BC. Xenophon, Hellenica 1.2.8, &c.  This article incorporates text from a publication...

various stylistic similarities with the Philoctetes (409 BC) and the Oedipus at Colonus (406 BC) lead scholars to suppose that it was written towards...

Philoctetes (409 BC) Euripides (c. 480–406 BC): Alcestis (438 BC) Medea (431 BC) The Heracleidae (Herakles Children) (c. 429 BC) Hippolytus (428 BC) Electra...

great temples, the earliest dating from 550 BC, with five centred on an acropolis. At its peak before 409 BC the city may have had 30,000 inhabitants, excluding...

BC – Euripides (Hippolytus) 427 BC – Philocles, nephew of Aeschylus; Sophocles took 2nd place with Oedipus Rex 416 BC – Agathon 415 BC – Xenocles 409...

tragedies by Sophocles. It was first performed at the City Dionysia in 409 BC, where it won first prize. The story takes place during the Trojan War (after...

Nicias' peace, between 421 BC and 409 BC. Construction of the elegant temple of Erechtheion in Pentelic marble (421–406 BC) was by a complex plan which...

Year 412 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Ambustus and Pacilus (or, less frequently...

478-404 BC) can be categorized into two groups: the allied states (symmachoi) reported in the stone tablets of the Athenian tribute lists (454-409 BC), who...

Carthaginian destruction of the city in 409 BC. The next earliest epigraphic evidence for the formula comes from the 4th century BC, and it continues to re-appear...

(complete list) – Wen, Marquess (445–396 BC) Zhao (complete list) – Xian, Marquess (424–409 BC) Lie, Marquess (409–387 BC) Vietnam Hồng Bàng dynasty (complete...

personal name Huan (浣), ruled 424 BC–409 BC Marquess Lie (烈侯), personal name Ji (籍), son of previous, ruled 409 BC–387 BC, noted for several reforms Marquess...

Year 410 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Mamercinus and Volusus (or, less frequently...

(281–246 BC). The chronology of Keating's Foras Feasa ar Éirinn dates Bodbchad's reign to 411–409 BC, that of the Annals of the Four Masters to 594–592 BC. R...

intentional and unintentional homicide was introduced in Athenian law in 409 BC, when the legal code of Draco indicated that intentional homicide (hekousios...

surviving plays can be dated securely: Philoctetes to 409 BC, and Oedipus at Colonus to 401 BC (staged after his death, by his grandson). Of the others...

Historians know little about Darius II's reign. A rebellion by the Medes in 409 BC is mentioned by Xenophon. It does seem that Darius II was quite dependent...

century BC, with the exception of the homicide law. After much debate, the Athenians decided to revise the laws, including the homicide law, in 409 BC. The...

itself in 410 or 409 BC. Around 350 BC, Philip II of Macedon took Neapolis and used it as Philippi's harbor. At the Battle of Philippi in 42 BC, the harbor...

on Sicily Battle of Himera (409 BC), resulting in the destruction of the city Himera Battle of the Himera River (311 BC), fought near the Himera River...

Year 408 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Tribunate of Iullus, Ahala and Cossus (or, less frequently...

Year 407 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Tribunate of Medullinus, Vibulanus, Volusus and Ahala...

at the head of a force composed in great part of Himeraean citizens. In 409 BC the prosperity of the city was brought to an abrupt end by the great Carthaginian...

Sparta; the son of Pleistoanax. He ruled Sparta from 445 BC to 427 BC and again from 409 BC to 395 BC. He was the leader of the faction in Sparta that opposed...

Following this failure they encouraged the Carthaginians to attack Selinus in 409 BC and succeeded in obtaining the destruction of their rivals. However, they...