Year 425 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Tribunate of Atratinus, Medullinus, Cincinnatus and...

the Spartans in the Battle of Olpae. 425 BC: Demosthenes captures the port of Pylos in the Peloponnesus. 425 BC: The Athenians invade Sphacteria and defeat...

347 BC) 425 BC Artaxerxes III, king of the Persian Empire (approximate date) 429 BC Pericles, Athenian statesman (epidemic) (born c. 495 BC) 428 BC Anaxagoras...

Herodotus (Ancient Greek: Ἡρόδοτος, romanized: Hēródotos; c. 484 – c. 425 BC) was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus...

of 550 BC–330 BC dominated these sub-regional hegemonies prior to its collapse. Ancient historians such as Herodotus (c.  484 BC – c. 425 BC). Xenophon...

millennium BC, also known as the last millennium BC, was the period of time lasting from the years 1000 BC to 1 BC (10th to 1st centuries BC; in astronomy:...

of Persia (died 425 BC), Artaxerxes I Longimanus, r. 466–425 BC, son and successor of Xerxes I Artaxerxes II of Persia (436 BC–358 BC), Artaxerxes II...

Moon. The Greek historian Herodotus (484 – c. 425 BC) and the scholar Callimachus of Cyrene (c. 305–240 BC), at the Museum of Alexandria, made early lists...

440 BC to 426 BC. King Kao's father was King Zhending, son of the King Yuan of Zhou. Kao fathered King Weilie of Zhou, whose reign started in 425 BC, after...

Ionian Greek invaders and colonists. Doric Greek historian Herodotus (c. 484–425 BC), born in the city of Halicarnassus under the Achaemenid Empire, who gives...

now Lebanon. The traditional list of 12 kings, with reigns dated to 990–785 BC, is derived from the lost history of Menander of Ephesus as quoted by Josephus...

Eastern Zhou. His reign started in 425 BC, after his father King Kao of Zhou had died and lasted until his death in 402 BC. He officially established three...

regarded as the youngest child of Zeus in a hymn by Ion of Chios (ca. 490-425 BC). Caerus is represented as a young and beautiful god. Opportunity obviously...

victory, Nike, made by sculptor Paionios (Paeonius of Mende) between 425 BC and 420 BC. Made of Parian marble, the medium gives the statue a translucent...

 546 BC) Hecataeus of Miletus (died c. 476 BC) Massaliote Periplus (6th century BC) Scylax of Caryanda (6th century BC) Herodotus (died c. 425 BC) Hellenistic...

the Warring States period (481 BC – 403 BC) and the Qin state (9th century BC – 221 BC) and dynasty (221 BC – 206 BC). Early Warring States period Qin...

later lists by the historian Herodotus (c. 484 BC–c. 425 BC) and the poet Callimachus of Cyrene (c. 305–240 BC), housed at the Museum of Alexandria, survive...

Phoenician king of Tyre or Sidon. The Greek historian Herodotus (c. 484–425 BC), born in the city of Halicarnassus under the Achaemenid Empire, estimated...

(404–384 BC) Qin (complete list) – Ligong, Duke (476–443 BC) Zao, Duke (442–429 BC) Huai, Duke (428–425 BC) Ling, Duke (424–415 BC) Jian, Duke (414–400 BC) Wei...

described in the book may refer to the event that happened on 29 January 1137 BC (-1136). When eclipses were not well understood, they were sometimes associated...

The naval Battle of Pylos took place in 425 BC during the Peloponnesian War at the peninsula of Pylos, on the present-day Bay of Navarino in Messenia,...

Battle of Sphacteria was a land battle of the Peloponnesian War, fought in 425 BC between Athens and Sparta. Following the Battle of Pylos and subsequent...

Greek foot soldiers) fully human in form. Later representations (after c. 380 BC) show Gigantes with snakes for legs. In later traditions, the Giants were...

from her body. Detail from a red-figure bell-crater in the Louvre, 450–425 BC. This form of Scylla was prevalent in ancient depictions, though very different...

Alexander the Great and king of Macedon 306-301 Orontes I of Armenia (b. 425 BC), son of Artasyrus Vermaat, Peter J.R. "Philippos II van Macedonie". Genealogie...

polis of Pyrene, cutting Europe across the middle" — Herodotus (c.484–c.425 BC). Today the river carries its name from its source confluence in Donaueschingen...

died 425 BC), personal name unknown, was from 428 to 425 BC the duke of the Qin state. Duke Huai was the younger son of Duke Ligong, who died in 443 BC and...

hoplite was one drachma, and for a heliast (juror) half a drachma since 425 BC. Before the Peloponnesian War (beginning in 431), which caused significant...

Pylos in the Peloponnese, Greece. It was the site of three battles: the 425 BC Battle of Sphacteria in the Peloponnesian war. the 1825 AD Battle of Sphacteria...

elements gained power in the city and Athens went on the offensive. In 425 BC, it captured 300–400 Spartan hoplites (soldiers) at the Battle of Pylos...