Alcibiades Timeline

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Alcibiades (or Alkibiades) was a gifted and flamboyant Athenian statesman and general whose shifting of sides during the Peloponnesian War in the 5th century BCE earned him a reputation for cunning and treachery. Good-looking and rich, he was also notorious for his extravagant lifestyle and loose morals. Never short of enemies or admirers - amongst whom was Socrates - he was one of the most colourful leaders in the history of Classical Athens.

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461 BCE - 429 BCE
Pericles is ruler of Athens.
c. 451 BCE - c. 403 CE
Life of Athenian statesman and general Alcibiades.
431 BCE - 404 BCE
The 2nd Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta (the Delian League and the Peloponnesian League) which involved all of Greece.
425 BCE
Pylos campaign, under Cleon and Demosthenes' command Athens defeats Sparta at Pylos.
c. 420 BCE
Alcibiades is made strategos or general for the first time.
416 BCE
Alcibiades wins three chariot races at the Olympic Games.
c. 415 BCE
Alcibiades persuades the Athenian assembly to send a military expedition to Sicily.
413 BCE
On the advice of Alcibiades the Spartans take over the Athenian-held fort of Dekeleia.
411 BCE
The oligarchy of the 400 take over the democracy in Athens and in a matter of months is replaced by an oligarchy of 5000.
410 BCE
Alcibiades leads the Athenian fleet to victory over Sparta at Cyzicus.
407 BCE
Athenian general Alcibiades makes his naval base on Samos.
c. 407 BCE
Alcibiades returns to Athens in triumph and is made strategos autokrater.
c. 407 BCE
The Athenian fleet is defeated by Lysander of Sparta at Notium.
404 BCE
End of the Peloponnesian war, Athens defeated By Sparta at Aigospotamoi, Rule of the Thirty Tyrants in Athens.
c. 403 BCE
Alcibiades is murdered in Phrygia.

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