• Year 420 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. The denomination 420 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the...
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  • the 5th century of the Julian calendar 420 BC, a year April 20 4-2-0, a classification of steam locomotives 420 (dinghy), a class of double-handed racing...
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  • This article concerns the period 429 BC420 BC. The Athenians under Xenophon march into Thrace to attack Chalcis. They destroy crops outside Spartolus...
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    BC) and the Oedipus at Colonus (406 BC) lead scholars to suppose that it was written towards the end of Sophocles' career. Jebb dates it between 420 BC...
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    Winged Victory of Samothrace Paionios of Mende. Nike of Olympia, c.425-420 BC. Parian marble statue of Nike, 2.115m but once reached a height of 10.92m...
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    Nike of Paionios (category 5th-century BC Greek sculptures)
    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 and...
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    Temple of Athena Nike (category 5th-century BC religious buildings and structures)
    Acropolis of Athens, dedicated to the goddesses Athena and Nike. Built around 420 BC, the temple is the earliest fully Ionic temple on the Acropolis. It has...
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    Athens: Hermes as psychopomp conducts the deceased, Myrrine, a priestess of Athena, to Hades, c. 430–420 BC (National Archaeological Museum of Athens)...
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    tragedy written by Athenian playwright Euripides, first produced circa 420 BC, and covered the myth of Phaethon, the young mortal boy who asked his father...
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    fragments of Menander. The philosopher Aristotle wrote in his Poetics (c. 335 BC) that comedy is a representation of laughable people and involves some kind...
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  • repulsed again. 86 BC: The Nephites begin to "establish the church more fully" (Alma 4:4). 85 BC 3,500 Nephites join the church. 84 BC The people of the...
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    Aegisthus also features heavily in the action of Euripides's Electra (c. 420 BC), although his character remains offstage. Aegisthus was the son of Thyestes...
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  • BC) Euripides (c. 480–406 BC): Alcestis (438 BC) Medea (431 BC) The Heracleidae (Herakles Children) (c. 429 BC) Hippolytus (428 BC) Electra (c. 420 BC)...
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    Athena even became the common obverse of the Athenian tetradrachms after 510 BC and according to Philochorus, the Athenian tetradrachm was known as glaux...
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    285–222 BC). Heron identifies the gastraphetes as the forerunner of the later catapult, which places its invention some unknown time prior to c. 420 BC. Unlike...
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    Protagoras (category 490s BC births)
    Protagoras (/prəʊˈtæɡəˌræs/; Greek: Πρωταγόρας; c. 490 BC – c. 420 BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher and rhetorical theorist. He is numbered as...
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    The 5th century BC started the first day of 500 BC and ended the last day of 401 BC. This century saw the establishment of Pataliputra as a capital of...
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    550–530/20 BC. Coin of Lycia, c. 520–470/60 BC. Lycia coin, c. 520-470 BC. Struck with worn obverse die. Coin of Lesbos, Ionia, c. 510–80 BC. The Classical...
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  • Intertestamental period (category 1st century BC)
    Malachi (c. 420 BC) to the appearance of John the Baptist in the early 1st century AD. It is roughly contiguous with the Second Temple period (516 BC-70 AD)...
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    Sarmatia in line with the account by Herodotus. In his Histories (5th century BC) Herodotus claims that the Sauromatae (predecessors of the Sarmatians), who...
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    Gallagher, David (2009-01-01). Avian and Serpentine. Brill Rodopi. ISBN 978-90-420-2709-1. Lucian, Gallus 3, see also scholiast on Aristophanes, Birds 835;...
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    C1st BC) Virgil, Eclogue 6, 43ff (trans. Hamilton Bryce) (Roman bucolic poetry C1st BC) Propertius, Elegies 2. 32 (trans. Goold) (Roman elegy C1st BC) Propertius...
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    early 6th century BC, then adopted by Attic potters. Its production was carried on by Greeks in Apulia until the end of the 4th century BC. Its shape and...
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    Agathon on the occasion of his first victory at the theater contest of the 416 BC Dionysia. According to Plato's account, the celebration was upstaged by the...
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  • for the war he fought against the Spartans in 480 B.C. Assassin's Creed Odyssey 2018 480 – 420 BC, The game is set in a vast, open-world recreation of...
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    Venus de Milo (category 2nd-century BC Greek sculptures)
    interpretation: Toussaint-Bernard Éméric-David thought it dated to c. 420 BC – c. 380 BC, between sculptors Phidias and Praxiteles; Quatremère de Quincy attributed...
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  • 6th century BC – State leaders in the 4th century BC – State leaders by year This is a list of state leaders in the 5th century BC (500–401 BC). Carthage...
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  • Year 419 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Tribunate of Lanatus, Rutilus, Tricipitinus and Axilla...
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    holding doll and bird, with goose (310 BC) Athenian shoemaker (430–420 BC) Funerary Stela of Demokleides (circa 394 BC) Although the Greeks developed an elaborate...
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  • Year 423 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Atratinus and Ambustus (or, less frequently...
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