458 BC

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Year of the Water sheep癸未( at the beginning of the year Water Horse壬午)

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Greece

• Athens defeated Corinth.
• Pleistoanax succeeds Pleistarchus as King of Sparta from the House of Agiaden.
• Members of the third class census, the Zeugiten, may assume the office of archon within the Athenian democracy, from this year.

Roman Republic

• Since Rome is threatened by the tribes of the Aequians, Sabines and Volscians, Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus was appointed dictator.

Culture

• The play Oresteia of Aeschylus wins the prize for his first performance at the Dionysia.

Died

• Pleistarchus, King of Sparta

• Year ( 5th century BC)
• 458 BC