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Greece

Suspected of plotting to seize power in Sparta by instigating a helot uprising, Pausanias takes refuge in the Temple of Athena of the Brazen House to escape arrest. The sanctuary is respected, but the Spartans wall in the sanctuary and starve Pausanias to death.

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Architecture

The construction of the Temple of Zeus, begins at Olympia, Greece. This includes the relief sculpture (of which fragments now remain at the Archeological Museum in Olympia) of Apollo with battling Lapiths and centaurs (approximate date).

Art

The Charioteer, in the Sanctuary of Apollo, Delphi, is created in commemoration of a victory in the Pythian Games of 478 or 474 BC (approximate date). It is now preserved at the Archaeological Museum in Delphi.

Pan Painter makes a "bell krater" (an earthenware piece that's used to mix water and wine) which has a red-figure decoration of Artemis slaying Actaeon. It is now preserved at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (approximate date).

Births

Aspasia of Miletus, mistress of Pericles of Athens (d. c. 400 BC)

Mozi, Chinese philosopher (d. c. 390 BC)

Socrates, Athenian philosopher (approximate date) (d. 399 BC)

Deaths

Pausanias, Spartan commander during the Greco-Persian WarsFurther Information

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