411 BC

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Year of the Metal horse庚午(at the beginning of Earth Snake己巳)

Events

Politics and World Affairs

• Peloponnesian War: a coup by taking in Athens, the Council of the Four Hundred, under the leadership of Peisander power. You try to make peace with Sparta.
• The battle of Syme between Athens and allied with the Persians Spartans is a draw.
• After Athens subject in the Battle of Kynossema, the Council of the Four Hundred was overthrown and democracy restored. Alcibiades is recalled to Athens.
• The exiled Evagoras I. returns with a band of followers back to Salamis in Cyprus and plunges since 415 BC ruling Abdemon. The island is still under Persian suzerainty.

• Battle of Abydos

Culture

• The comedy Lysistrata by Aristophanes and The Thesmophoriazusae be premiered at the Lenaea.

Born

• Around 411 BC: Timoleon, a Greek politician and general ( † about 337 BC)

Died

• Antiphon, Greek orator (c. 480 BC)
• Antiphon, Greek philosopher ( * 480 BC)
• Hyperbolos, Athenian lamp merchant and politician
• Kallaischros, Athenian politician and oligarch (c. 490 BC)
• Protagoras, the Greek pre-Socratic philosopher (c. 490 BC)

• Around 411 BC: Eupolis, Greek playwright (c. 446 BC)