500 B. C. THE relative positions of the nations of Europe and Western Asia at the year 500 B. C. are shown in a broad and general way upon the accompanying map. We shall now try to trace the chief political changes and national movements from the date of this map (500 B. C.) down to the year A. D. 1883. CHRONOLOGY OF THE MORE IMPORTANT EVENTS PRIOR TO THE FIFTH CENTURY B. C. PROMINENT NAMES IN GREECE PREVIOUS TO THE FIFTH (Many of the dates are conjectural.) Statesmen and Rulers.- Lycurgus (fl. 825 ?), Draco (fl. 621?), Solon (638?-558?), Pisistratus (612?-527). Philosophers.-Thales (636-546), Anaximander (610-547), Pythagoras (fl. 540-510), Xenophanes (fl. 540-500). Poets and Artists. - Homer (fl. 962-927), Hesiod (fl. 859-824?), Archilochus (714?676), Terpander (fl. 700-650), Tyrtæus (683-657), Alcæus (fl. 611), Sappho (fl. 611 -592), Æsop (fl. 570 ?). |