506 BC

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Year of wood sheep乙未( at the beginning of the year Wood Horse甲午)

  • Red-figure vase painting (since 530 BC)
  • Black-figure vase painting (since 630 BC)

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Greece

  • An army of the Spartans and their Peloponnesian allies draws under the leadership of the two kings Cleomenes I and Dama Ratos against Athens with the intention to occupy it and use Isagoras as Athenian tyrant. After Eleusis has been taken, the Corinthians question the meaning of this campaign and refuse further participation. It comes to clashes between the two Spartan kings, the army eventually dissolves, the campaign will be canceled.
  • At the same time Athens was attacked by armies of the Boeotian federation and the Chalkidians and can defeat this. With the Boeotians, the status quo ante restored, Chalkida device as a function of the Athenians who create there a cleruchy.

Italian peninsula

  • Spurius Larcius and Titus Herminius are according to tradition, Consuls of the Roman Republic.

Culture

  • On the Acropolis in Athens quadriga is set up to commemorate the victory over the Boeotians and the Chalkidians.
  • Year ( 6th century BC)
  • 506 BC
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