428 BC
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| Centuries: | 6th century BC · 5th century BC · 4th century BC |
| Decades: | 450s BC 440s BC 430s BC 420s BC 410s BC 400s BC 390s BC |
| Years: | 431 BC 430 BC 429 BC 428 BC 427 BC 426 BC 425 BC |
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[edit] Greece
- The chief city of Lesbos, Mytilene, revolts against Athenian rule. Alcidas, a Spartan admiral, leads 40 allied ships, to assist the inhabitants of Mytilene. However, the rebellion by Mytilene is crushed before his forces could arrive. Despite encouragement by the Ionians to engage the Athenians, Alcidas declines as he was eager to return to the Peloponnesus. Alcidas then leads his fleet to Cyllene where the Spartans resolve to strengthen the fleet and send it to Corcyra where a revolution had broken out. Spartan leaders, Brasidas and Alcidas, prepared accordingly, and together they defeat a fleet of Corcyrean ships. However, they flee when word reaches them that 60 Athenian ships from Leucas under the command of Eurymedon had been dispatched to intercept them.
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- Sophocles writes Oedipus the King.
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- Anaxagoras, Greek philosopher.
