450s BCE in History
459 BCE | The Sicilian town of Morgantina is destroyed by Ducetius, according to the famous Greek historian Diodorus Siculus. |
458 BCE | The Athenian playwright Aeschylus completes his famous work The Oresteia. |
456 BCE | The temple of Zeus in the Greek city Olympia is finished. |
455 BCE | Euripides presents his earliest known tragedy, Peliades, in the Athenian festival of Dionysia. |
454 BCE | Pericles leads a naval expedition in the Corinthian Gulf, in which Athens defeats Achaea |
451 BCE | An Athenian law sponsored by Pericles is passed giving citizenship only to those born of Athenian parents. This marks an end to the policy where residents who were from other cities could be given an honourable status. |
450 BCE | The Temple of Theseus is completed in Athens. |
Deaths in 450s BCE |
Aeschylus | 456 BCE |
Quotes in 450s BCE |
Aeschylus I know how men in feed on dreams of hope. Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old. Death is softer by far than tyranny. Wisdom comes alone through suffering. I know how men in exile feed on dreams. Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god. Call no man happy till he is dead.
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