Year 472 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Rufus and Fusus (or, less frequently...

BC: The Chinese State of Wu is annexed by the State of Yue. 472 BC: Carystus in Euboea is forced to join the Delian League (approximate date). 472 BC:...

place in The Persians, his oldest surviving play, which was performed in 472 BC and won first prize at the Dionysia. Aeschylus was one of many Greeks who...

(approximate date). 475 BC Philolaus, Greek philosopher (approximate year) 474 BC Pandukabhaya of Anuradhapura, ruler of Sri Lanka 472 BC Thucydides, Greek...

ancestor of Aenesidamus and of Aenesidamus's son Theron (tyrant c. 488–472 BC). Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture. De Gruyter. 2017-10-10...

484 BC – Aeschylus 4?? BC - Euetes 472 BC – Aeschylus (The Persians) 471 BC – Polyphrasmon 4?? BC - Nothippus 468 BC – Sophocles (Triptolemus) 467 BC –...

prize at the dramatic competitions in Athens' City Dionysia festival in 472 BC, with Pericles serving as choregos. The first play in the trilogy, called...

the known victors of the ancient Olympic Games from the 1st Games in 776 BC up to 264th in 277 AD, as well as the games of 369 AD before their permanent...

Mamercinus Rufus was a Roman politician during the 5th century BC, and was consul in 472 BC. In 472 BC, he was elected consul with Publius Furius Medullinus Fusus...

Pontos (ὁ Πόντος) as early as the Aeschylean Persians (472 BC) and Herodotus' Histories (circa 440 BC). Having originally no specific name, the region east...

6th century BC): Aeschylus (c. 525–456 BC): The Persians (472 BC) Seven Against Thebes (467 BC) The Suppliants (463 BC) The Oresteia (458 BC, a trilogy...

headed by Telemachus, the ancestor of Theron of Acragas (tyrant c. 488–472 BC), and burned in his own brazen bull. Pindar, who lived less than a century...

character of Aeschylus' play The Persians, first performed in Athens in 472 BC, only seven years after his invasion of Greece. The play presents him as...

(Πέρσαι / Persai), 472 BC; Seven Against Thebes (Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ Θήβας / Hepta epi Thebas), 467 BC; Suppliants (Ἱκέτιδες / Hiketides), probably 463 BC; The trilogy...

ostracised in 461 BC, was recalled during an emergency. Ostracism was not in use throughout the entire period of Athenian democracy (circa 506–322 BC), but only...

Telemachus, after 554 BC Alcamenes, 6th/5th century BC Alcandros (Alcander), 6th/5th century BC Theron, 488-472 BC Thrasydaeus, 472 BC (expelled and executed)...

Year 475 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Republic, it was known as year 279 Ab urbe condita. The denomination 475 BC for this...

Wen Zhong (Chinese: 文種; pinyin: Wén Zhòng) (died 472 BC) was an advisor in the state of Yue in the Spring and Autumn period. He was a native of Ying in...

Year 469 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Priscus and Caeliomontanus (or, less...

competition in 472 BC, he had been writing plays for more than 25 years. The competition ("agon") for tragedies may have begun as early as 534 BC; official...

of the word metoikos is in Aeschylus' play Persians, first performed in 472 BC. However, James Watson argues that the word was used in Persians in a non-technical...

taken over neighboring Sikan and Sicel lands under the tyrant Theron (488–472 BC). To forestall any conflicts between Akragas and Syracuse, Gelo and Theron...

Verginius Tricostus Caeliomontanus the consul of 469 BC; and Publius Furius Medullinus Fusus the consul of 472 BC. Livy reports that in fact few of the plebeians...

Year 474 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Medullinus and Vulso (or, less frequently...

Year 473 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Mamercus and Iullus (or, less frequently...

the palace was constructed." The city forms the setting of The Persians (472 BC), an Athenian tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus that is...

The 1450s BC was a decade lasting from January 1, 1459, BC to December 31, 1450, BC. Battle of Megiddo (15th century BC) between Thutmose III and a coalition...

Year 471 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sabinus and Barbatus (or, less frequently...

(8th c. BC – AD 6th c.), the time of the play The Persians (472 BC), by Aeschylus, which celebrates a Greek victory (Battle of Salamis, 480 BC) against...

lists several examples of recorded entries to the City Dionysia: thus, in 472 BC Aeschylus won the first prize with Phineaus, Persae, Glaucus and the satyr...