Year 442 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. It was written at a time of national fervour, with fervour meaning ´great warmth and intensity of emotion´. In 441 BC Sophocles was made one of ten generals to lead a military expedition to Samos, a Greek Island in the eastern Aegean Sea. It was a rich and powerful city-state, particularly known for its vineyards and wine production.
I have gone through many timelines of Ancient Greece. In 422 BC, Cleon (an Athenian statesman and a general during the Peloponnesian War) and Brasidas (a Spartan officer during the first decade of the Peloponnesian War) meet outside of Amphipolis (a municipality in the Serres regional unit of Greece). They both die there during the Battle of Amphipolis.
The Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC) was an Ancient Greek war fought by Athens and its empire against the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta. The reasons for the war are:
I have gone through many timelines of Ancient Greece. In 422 BC, Cleon (an Athenian statesman and a general during the Peloponnesian War) and Brasidas (a Spartan officer during the first decade of the Peloponnesian War) meet outside of Amphipolis (a municipality in the Serres regional unit of Greece). They both die there during the Battle of Amphipolis.
The Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC) was an Ancient Greek war fought by Athens and its empire against the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta. The reasons for the war are:
- The Spartan fear of Athens's growing power and prosperity.
- Athens made an alliance with Corcyra, Rhegium and Leontini, this endangered food supply to the Peloponnesian city.
In 421 BC, was the peace of Nicias. The peace of Nicias was signed to mark the end of the Archidamian War (the first part of the Peloponnesian War), however, as soon as it had been signed, it immediately collapsed because Thebes refused to sign it.
In 450/449 BC, Athens signed a peace treaty (Peace of Callias) with Persia. But from 449 to 448 BC, Athens had the second sacred war with Sparta.
I couldn't find any huge historical events but at the time, law and politics was a common discussion point in Ancient Greece. Just like Creon, laws were given out by one person and fail to abide by those rules, meant a horrific punishment, most usually death. There was only one religion and one set of Gods in the times of Ancient Greece, and everybody worshipped them. Sophocles' pieces always included the Gods because they were a topic of discussion that never went away or got old. The whole play was about the consequences of not abiding to the God's rules, and that what the God's want is more important than the rules and laws of man.
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I couldn't find any huge historical events but at the time, law and politics was a common discussion point in Ancient Greece. Just like Creon, laws were given out by one person and fail to abide by those rules, meant a horrific punishment, most usually death. There was only one religion and one set of Gods in the times of Ancient Greece, and everybody worshipped them. Sophocles' pieces always included the Gods because they were a topic of discussion that never went away or got old. The whole play was about the consequences of not abiding to the God's rules, and that what the God's want is more important than the rules and laws of man.
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| Samos |
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