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    Year 414 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, Potitus and Albinus...
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  • 411 BC Timoleon, Greek statesman and general (approximate date) (d. 337 BC) 418 BC Laches, Athenian aristocrat and general (b. c. 475 BC) 414 BC Lamachus...
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    consideration, and appointed Gylippus to command their fleet. In the spring of 414 BC, reinforcements arrived from Athens, consisting of 250 cavalry, 30 mounted...
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    written towards the end of Sophocles' career. Jebb dates it between 420 BC and 414 BC. Set in the city of Argos a few years after the Trojan War, the play...
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  • Adamair (category 3rd-century BC legendary monarchs)
    Ptolemy V Epiphanes in Egypt (204–181 BC). The chronology of the Annals of the Four Masters dates his reign to 418–414 BC, the chronology of Geoffrey Keating's...
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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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  • Consulship of Torquatus and Mus (or, less frequently, year 414 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 340 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval...
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    (Ancient Greek: Ἀηδών, "Nightingale") is a minor character in Aristophanes's 414 BC Attic comedy The Birds. Philomela is transformed into a nightingale, according...
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    Babylonians) 423 BC – Cratinus (The Wicker Flask) 422 BC – Cantharus 421 BC – Eupolis (The Flatterers); Aristophanes took 2nd place with Peace 414 BC – Ameipsias...
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  • Year 415 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Tribunate of Cossus, Vibulanus, Volusus and Cincinnatus...
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  • Year 416 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Tribunate of Atratinus, Ambustus, Mugillanus and...
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  • 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...
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  • Birds (414 BC) Lysistrata (411 BC) Thesmophoriazusae (c. 411 BC) The Frogs (405 BC) Assemblywomen (c. 392 BC) Plutus (388 BC) Pherecrates 420 BC Diocles...
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  • Ictinus (category 5th-century BC architects)
    for condemnation by Aristophanes in his play The Birds, dated to around 414 BC. It depicts the royal kite or ictinus – a play on the architect's name – not...
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    comedy by the Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes. It was performed in 414 BC at the City Dionysia in Athens where it won second place. It has been acclaimed...
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  • Syracuse in the Peloponnesian War 415 BC Heracleides, 414 BC, another Syracusan general in the Peloponnesian War 414 BC Heracleides, son of Aristogenes, a...
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    Peloponnesian War (category 430s BC conflicts)
    its empire. All of this was due, in no small part, to Alcibiades. From 414 BC, Darius II, ruler of the Achaemenid Empire had started to resent increasing...
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  • 414 may refer to: 414 (number) 414 CE (CDXIV), a year in the Western calendar, "A.D. 414" 414 BC, a year in the Western calendar, "414 BCE" 414 Liriope...
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    Taurois) is a drama by the playwright Euripides, written between 414 BC and 412 BC. It has much in common with another of Euripides's plays, Helen, as...
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    BC), one of the pre-Socratic philosophers, makes Eros the first of all the gods to come into existence. Aristophanes, in his comedy The Birds (414 BC)...
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  • Year 413 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...
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  • Year 417 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Tribunate of Tricipitinus, Lanatus, Crassus (or Cicurinus)...
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    Peace of Nicias (category 421 BC)
    from the start and, after several more failures, was formally abandoned in 414 BC. The Peloponnesian War resumed the second stage. List of treaties Thucydides...
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  • Second Battles of Syracuse in 415 and 414 BC, where Athens fought the Syracusans and Spartans Battle of Syracuse in 397 BC, during one of the Carthaginian campaigns...
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  • and Erythea). In a cosmogony given by Aristophanes in his play The Birds (414 BC), which is often believed to be a parody of an Orphic theogony, Erebus is...
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  • (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...
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  • playwright, wrote and directed a comedy, The Birds, first performed in 414 BC, in which Pisthetaerus, a middle-aged Athenian, persuades the world's birds...
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    The earliest of these is a passage from Aristophanes' comedy The Birds (414 BC), which presents a parody of a cosmogony, often considered to have been...
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    Aristophanes (category 440s BC births)
    BC) Proagon (Προάγων, 422 BC) Amphiaraus (Ἀμφιάραος, 414 BC) Plutus (Wealth, first version, 408 BC) Gerytades (Γηρυτάδης, uncertain, probably 407 BC)...
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    "shadow-foot". Monopods appear in Aristophanes' play The Birds, first performed in 414 BC. They are described by Pliny the Elder in his Natural History, where he...
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