580 BC

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Year of the Metal Snake辛巳( at the beginning of the year Metal Dragon庚辰)

  • Black-figure vase painting (since 630 BC)

Events

Politics and World Affairs

  • Between the Greek colony of Selinunte and founded by the Elymians of Segesta in Sicily it comes to first significant battle.
  • 580 BC: King Battus II issues a call for settlement of Cyrene, which mainly meet Peloponnesians.

Culture

  • 580 BC: The Pholoe painters in Corinth made ​​his most famous work, a Skyphos.
  • 580 BC: Corinth in the Cavalcade Painter operates, draws plants in the black-figure style.
  • 580 BC: Corinth in the Gorgoneion group in vase painting is active.
  • 580 BC: Timonidas from Corinth is the first known Greek vase painters. He is also active in the black-figure style.

Died

  • 580 BC: Alcaeus of Lesbos, Greek poet (c. 630 BC)
  • Year ( 6th century BC)
  • 580 BC
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