Year 406 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Tribunate of Cossus, Ambustus, Cossus and Potitus...

returns to Athens again. 406 BC: Athens defeats Sparta in the Battle of Arginusae and the blockade of Conon is lifted. 406 BC: Sparta sues for peace, but...

The Battle of Mytilene was fought in 406 BC between Athens and Sparta. The Spartans were victorious. Shortly after the Battle of Notium, the Spartan Callicratidas...

The siege of Akragas took place in 406 BCE in Sicily; the Carthaginian enterprise ultimately lasted a total of eight months. The Carthaginian army under...

510–480 BC) Hanno II, King (480–440 BC) Himilco I, King ((in Sicily) 460–410 BC) Hannibal I, King (440–406 BC) Himilco II, King (406–396 BC) Cyrene Cyrene...

460–410 BC Hannibal I 440–406 BC Himilco II 406–396 BC Mago II 396–375 BC Mago III 375–344 BC Hanno III 344–340 BC Hannonids Hanno I 340–337 BC Gisco 337–330...

Pericles the Younger (440s – 406 BCE) was an ancient Athenian strategos (general), the illegitimate son of famous Athenian leader Pericles by Aspasia...

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:...

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

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 (c...

The Battle of Notium (or Battle of Ephesus) in 406 BC was a Spartan naval victory in the Peloponnesian War. Prior to the battle, the Athenian commander...

transferred in its opisthodomos. The temple may have been burnt down during 406/405 BC as Xenophon mentions that the old temple of Athena was set afire. Pausanias...

The Battle of Arginusae took place in 406 BC during the Peloponnesian War near the city of Canae in the Arginusae Islands, east of the island of Lesbos...

Theban plays by Sophocles (497 BC – 406 BC), the most famous adaptation Antigone, a play by Euripides (c. 480 – 406 BC) which is now lost except for some...

unknown; it has traditionally been thought to have been built from c. 421–406 BC, but more recent scholarship favours a date in the 430s, when it could have...

Cerberus, called here the "untamable Watcher of Hades". Euripides (c. 480 – 406 BC) describes Cerberus as three-headed, and three-bodied, says that Heracles...

against Syracuse from 415 to 413 BC, Acragas remained neutral. However, it was sacked by the Carthaginians in 406 BC. Acragas never fully recovered its...

works by the playwright Euripides. Written between 408, after Orestes, and 406 BC, the year of Euripides' death, the play was first produced the following...

Cumae) 430 BC 406 BC: Defeat against the Samnites in Campania 406 BC: Siege of Veii by Rome 396 BC: Destruction of Veii by Rome from 396 BC: Invasion of...

polymath (b. 498 BC) 407 BC Hermocrates, leader of the moderate democrats of Syracuse 406 BC Euripides, Athenian playwright (b. c. 480 BC) Hannibal Mago...

of Ephesus (498 BC), in the Ionian Revolt Battle of Ephesus (406 BC), between Athenians and Peloponnesians Battle of Ephesus (ca. 258 BC), between the Rhodian...

defeat his grandfather suffered in the Battle of Himera 70 years before. In 406 BC Hannibal Mago died in a plague that broke out during the siege of Agrigento...

Valley. Temple of "Hera", also built in the 5th century BC. It was burnt in 406 BC by the Carthaginians. Temple of Heracles, who was one of the most venerated...

dramatist and statesman (d. 406 BC) Sun Tzu, military philosopher and author of The Art of War (most likely a colloquial date) (b. 544 BC) King Helü of Wu, king...

Euripides (c. 480 – c. 406 BC) was a tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians...

396 BC) was a member of the Magonids, a Carthaginian family of hereditary generals, and had command over the Carthaginian forces between 406 BC and 397...

Aristocrates (Ancient Greek: Ἀριστοκράτης; died 406 BC) was an ancient Athenian of wealth and influence, the son of Scellias, who attached himself to the...

Callixenus (Ancient Greek: Καλλίξεινος) (fl. 406 BC – 400 BC) was an Athenian politician who lived around the time of Socrates. After the Battle of Arginusae...

/Orestes), 408 BC; Iphigenia in Aulis (Ἰφιγένεια ἡ ἐν Αὐλίδι / Iphighèneia h en Aulìdi), 410 BC; The Bacchae (Βάκχαι / Bakchai), 406 BC; Cyclops (Κύκλωψ...

before Sophocles's death in 406 BC and produced by his grandson (also called Sophocles) at the Festival of Dionysus in 401 BC. In the timeline of the plays...