Chapter 3 Review: Important Events
| 500–323 B.C.E. | Classical Age of Greece |
| 499–479 B.C.E. | Wars between Persia and Greece |
| 490 B.C.E. | Battle of Marathon |
| 480 B.C.E. | Battle of Salamis |
| 480–479 B.C.E. | Xerxes invades Greece |
| 461 B.C.E. | Ephialtes reforms Athenian court system |
| Early 450s B.C.E. | Pericles introduces pay for officeholders in Athenian democracy |
| 451 B.C.E. | Pericles restricts Athenian citizenship to children whose parents are both citizens |
| 450 B.C.E. | Protagoras and other Sophists begin to teach in Athens |
| 446–445 B.C.E. (winter) | Peace treaty between Athens and Sparta, intended to last thirty years |
| 441 B.C.E. | Sophocles presents tragedy Antigone |
| 431–404 B.C.E. | Peloponnesian War |
| 420s B.C.E. | Herodotus finishes Histories |
| 415–413 B.C.E. | Enormous Athenian military expedition against Sicily |
| 411 B.C.E. | Aristophanes presents the comedy Lysistrata |
| 404–403 B.C.E. | Rule of Thirty Tyrants at Athens |
| 403 B.C.E. | Restoration of democracy in Athens |
Consider three events: Ephialtes reforms Athenian court system (461 B.C.E.), Protagoras and other Sophists begin to teach in Athens (450 B.C.E.), and Aristophanes presents the comedy Lysistrata (411 B.C.E.). How did the principles of radical democracy during the Athenian Golden Age help to make possible these different events?