499 BC

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  • Red-figure vase painting (since 530 BC)
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Classic era in Greece (since about 500 BC)

In the year 499 BC, the Ionian revolt against the Persian Empire goes on, however, it is distinguished from slow that support from the Greek mainland is forthcoming.

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Politics and World Affairs

Ionic revolt against the Persian Empire

The Ionian revolt of the Greek colonies of Asia Minor under the leadership of Aristagoras of Miletus against the Achaemenid Empire of the Great King Darius I is expanding. The city of Sardis, the seat of the local satraps, is occupied by the insurgents and the local Persian temple destroyed, while the satrap Artaphernes entrenched with his troops in the town castle and the siege holds by the Greeks. According to Herodotus Aristagoras, Athens and Sparta tried to win for an invasion of Asia Minor, he describes them by the suppression of the Greek colonies by the Persian " tyranny " in glowing colors. The call for support in the Greek motherland died away, however, largely unheard. Only the poleis of Athens and Eretria send some ships. Nevertheless, the uprising in the territories Caria and Lycia overlapping, and even in Cyprus, the Greeks rise up against the Persian rule.

Roman Republic

Titus Aebutius helva and Veturius Geminus Cicurinus are according to legend consuls of the early Roman Republic. Aulus Postumius Albus Regillensis is used because of the looming war with the Latins as a dictator and appoints helva to magister equitum.

Born

  • Anaxagoras, a Greek pre-Socratic philosopher, born in Klazomenai in Asia Minor, († 428 BC)
  • 499 BC: Diogenes of Apollonia, a Greek pre-Socratic philosopher and physician, born in Apollonia on the Black Sea, ( † about 428 BC)
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