470 BC
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Year of the Metal sheep辛未( at the beginning of the year metal horse庚午)
Events
Politics and Science
- 470 BC: The Carthaginian admiral Hanno the Navigator rulers and sailed along the West African coast, probably to the Gulf of Guinea. His travelogue Periplus is preserved in a Greek translation.
Culture and Religion
- Begins the construction of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia by the builder Libon of Elis: around 470 BC.
- 470 BC: Prometheus Bound, Aeschylus attributed to the
- 470 BC: The Providence Painter is active in Athens.
Born
- 470 BC: Aspasia, Greek philosopher, second wife of Pericles
- 470 BC: Callicrates, Greek architect
Died
- 470 BC: Phrynichus Greek tragedians
- 470 BC: Xenophanes, Greek philosopher and poet (c. 570 BC)