CHRONOLOGICAL  TABLES  OF  GREEK  HISTORY,
 

FROM  THE FIRST  OLYMPIAD,  B.C.  776, TO THE IALL OF CORINTH, B.C. 146.
 


 

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 Coroebus the Elean gains the victory in the foot race

  at the Olympic games.  The Olympic games were

  instituted by Iphitus the Elean about B.C. 834, but

  the Olympiads were not employed as a chronolog¬

  ical era till the victory of Coroebus.

 Arctinus of Miletus, the Cyclic poet, flourished.

 Pandosia and Metapontum, in Italy, founded.

 Cinifithon of Lacedtemon, the Cyclic poet, flourished.

 Eumelus flourished.

 Antimachus of Teos flourished.

 Miletus at the height of its power.   Many of its colo¬

  nies founded about this time or a little later.

 Phidon, tyrant of Argos, celebrates the  8th Olympic

  games.  He introduced copper and silver coinage,

  and a new scale of weights and measures, through¬

  out the Peloponnesus.

 The first annual Prytanis at Corinth, 90 years before

  the reign of Cypselus.

 Eumelus of Corinth, the Cyclic poet, flourished.

 The beginning of the first war between  the Messeni¬

  ans and the Lacedaemonians,

 Callinus of Ephesus, the earliest Greek elegiac poet,

  flourished.

Naxos, in Sicily  founded by the Chalcidians of Eu-

  boaa.

Syracuse founded ay Archias of Corinth.

Leontium and Catana, in Sicily, founded.

Megara Hyblrea, in Sicily, founded.

Philolaus of Corinth, the  Theban lawgiver,  flour-

  ished.

End ofthe first Messenian war. The Messenians were

  obliged to submit after the capture of Ithome, and

  to pay a heavy tribute to tbe Lacedaemonians.

Sybaris, in Italy, founded by the Aehaeans.

War between the Lacedeemonians and Argives.

Gyges begias to reign in Lydia. This dynasty reigned,

 ^.according to Herodotus, 160 years, and terminated

  B.C. 546 by the fall of Crcesus.

Astacus founded by the Megarians.

Callhms of Ephesus flourished.

Croton or Crotona, in Italy,  founded by the AchaQ-

  ans.  Soon after the foundation of Croton the Ozo¬

  lian Locrians founded the  Epizephyrian Locri in

  Italy.

Deioces begins to reign in Media.   The Medes revolt¬

  ed from the Assyrians after the death of Sennache¬

  rib in B.C. 711.  The Assyrians, according to He¬

  rodotus, had governed Upper Aaia for 530 years.

  This account gives B.C. 710 -j- 520 = B.C. 1230 for

  the commencement of the Assyrian dominion. The

  Median kings reigned 150 years.  See B.C. 687 and

  559.

Tarentum founded by the Lacedaemonian Parthenire,

  under Phalanthus.

Thasos and Parium, on the Propontis, founded by the

  Parians.

Archiloehus of Paros, the Iambic poet, accompanied

  the colony to Thasos, being then in the flower of

  his age.
 

 693 Simonides of Amorgos, the lyric poet, flourished.

     Glaucus of Chios, a statuary in metal, flourished.  Ha

       was distinguished as the inventor of the art of sol¬

       dering metals.

 690 Foundation of Gela in Sicily, and of Phaselis in Pam¬

       phylia.

 687 The empire of the Medes is computed by Herodotus

       to commence from this date, the 23d year of their

       independence.  It lasted 128 years, and terminated

       in B.C. 559.

     Archiloehus flourished.  See B.C. 708.

 685 The beginning of the second Messenian war.

 683 First annual archon at Athens.

     Tyrtaeus, the Athenian poet, came to Sparta after the

       first success of the Messenians, and by his martial

       songs roused the fainting courage of the Lacedae¬

       monians.

 G78 Ardys, king of Lydia, succeeded Gyges.

 675 Foundation of Cyzicus by the Megarians

 674 Foundation of Chalcedon by the Megarians.

 672 The Pisatae, led by Pantaleon, revolt from the Eleens,

       and espouse the cause ofthe Messenians.

     Alcman, a native of Sardis ia Lydia, and the chief lyr¬

       ic poet of Sparta, flourished.

 670 Psammetichus, king of Egypt, begins to reign.

 669 The Argives defeat the Lacedaemonians at Hysioe.

 668 End of the second Messenian war, according to Pau

       sanias.

 665 Thaletas of Crete, the lyric poet and musician, flour'

       ished.

 064 A sea-fight between the Corinthians and Corcyraeans,

       the most ancient sea-fight recorded.

 662 Zaleucus, the lawgiver in  Locri Epizephyrii, flour¬

       ished.

 657 Byzantium founded by the Megarians.

 656 Phraortes, king of Media, succeeds Deioces.

 655 The Bacchiads  expelled from Corinth.  Cypselua

      begins to reign.  He reigned 30 years.

 654 Foundation of Acanthus,  Stagira, Abdera, and Lamp.

       sacus.

 651 Birth of Tittacus, according to Suidas.

 648 Himera in Sicily founded.

 647 Pisander, the  epic poet of Camirus, in Rhodes, flour¬

      ished.

 644 Pantaleon, king of Pisa, celebrates the Olympic games

     Terpander flourished.

 635  Sardis taken by the Cimmerians in the reign of Ardys,

 634  Phraortes, king of Media, slain by the Assyrians, and

      succeeded by his son Cyaxares.  Irruption of tha

      Scythians into Asia, who interrupt Cyaxares in tho

      siege of Nineveh.

 631 Cyrene, in Libya,  founded by Battus of Thera

 630  Mimnermus flourished.

 629  Foundation of Sinope by the Milesians.  Sadyattea,

      king of Lydia, succeeds Ardys.

 625  "*eriander succeeds Cypselus at Corinth.  He reigned

      40 years.

    Arion flourished in the reign of Periasder

621 Legislaticn of Dracon at Athena.