OCTOBER 30, 2000
TERMINOLOGY FOR THE EAST-WEST CONFLICT, 489-480 BC
Ostracism
488/7: Hipparchos son of Charmos (Peisistratid)
487/6: Megakles son of Hippokrates (Alkmaionid)
(introduction of lottery for selecting archons)
486/5: "friend of the tyrants"
485/4: Xanthippos son of Ariphron (father of Perikles)
Silver discovered at Laurion (Maronea) in Attica, 483/2
Aristides son of Lysimachos
Themistokles son of Neokles, archon 493/2
Piraeus
483/2: Aristides ostracized
Recall of the Exiles (481/0)
The Synedrion ("Congress") of Probouloi ("Representatives")
King Leonidas of Sparta
Battles of Thermopylai; Artemision
Ephialtes the traitor