![]() ![]() Records, we can provide rough BC dates for the majority of events that take place in Herodotus’ ‘The Histories’. ![]() ![]() Local time systems were used, notably based on the names of individuals who held some political magistracy such as eponymous archons (chief magistrates in various Greek city states) or who were in religious office. In the 15th, the 48th year of the priestess-ship of Chrysis at Argos, in the Ephorate of Aenesias at Sparta, in the last month but two of the Archonship of Pythodorus at Athens, and six months after the battle of Potidaea, just at the beginning of spring, a Theban force. “The 30 years' truce which was entered into after the conquest of Euboea lasted 14 years. See, for example, Thucydides, 'The Peloponnesian War', Book 2, Ch. Though the four-yearly cycle of the Olympiads provided some orientation, the Greeks didn’t really have a common system for recording dates. Always beĬautious with dates for events in this period, and cross-reference sources carefully and critically.Ĭroesus, from an Attic vase, held in the Louvre, Paris The Hestia Project map is referenced from some events, providing texts and geographical contexts to explore. This war was waged between his peoples, the Greeks,Īs you explore the Herodotus OpenLearn Collection, use the Timeline to help you to place some of the events in chronological context. Sometime in the middle of the 5th century BC, Herodotus, a Greek, living in a city called Halicarnassus (modern-day Bodrum, Turkey) set out to explain the origins of the Great War from a generation before. ![]()
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