427 BC Chr.

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s 427 BC In other calendars | -! Buddhist calendar | 117/118 (southern Buddhism); 116/117 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) | -! Chinese calendar | 37th (38th) cycle , year of the wood tiger甲寅 ( at the beginning of the year water buffalo 癸丑) | -! Greek calendar | 1./2. Year of the 88th Olympiad | -! Jewish calendar | 3334/35 | -! Roman calendar | ab urbe condita CCCXXVII (327) |}

Events

Politics and world events

Greece

Early June: The Spartans invade Attica for the fourth time and devastate the area around Marathon .
End of June / beginning of July: Mytilene, besieged by the Athenians, surrenders on Lesbos . Since the fleet commanded by Alkidas did not arrive, the Mytilenians armed the common people, who then demanded a fairer distribution of food. Only a week before the arrival of the Alkidas, the oligarchs prefer to lay down their arms. Kleon takes tough action and has those responsible for the revolt executed (originally he even wanted to have the entire population of Mytilenes killed) and the city walls razed. Furthermore, Mytilene has to surrender his fleet to the Athenians and the island of Lesbos is colonized by clergy , with the exception of Methymna , who was loyal to Athens.
July: With the assassination of the democratic politician Peithias , a civil war begins in Kerkyra between democrats and aristocrats, which ends with a victory for the pro-Athenian democrats. Attempts at meddling by both Athens and Sparta were unsuccessful
August: massacre on Kerkyra.
Summer:
- The siege of Plataiai ends with the capture of the city by Sparta under Archidamos II in association with Thebes . All men are executed, the women are sold into slavery. The siege thus becomes a symbol for the brutalization of the Peloponnesian War .
- Athens sends 30 ships around the Peloponnese and 60 to Melos and then to Lokris .
End of September: First naval expedition of Athens to Sicily in order to come to the aid of Leontinoi and Rhegion (427/424 BC) and with which Athens intends to stop Sparta's supply of Sicilian grain. The trigger is the attack by Syracuse on Leontinoi. Syracuse is allied with other Doric cities in Sicily and Lokroi Epizephyroi ( Kamarina is an exception) and is supported by Sparta. Leontinoi is allied with Chalcidian-Ionian cities (such as Rhegion) and with Catania . The sophist Gorgias von Leontinoi had gone to Athens to warn of the ambitious plans of the Syracusans and to ask for support for his city. After his successful application, he stayed in Athens to teach rhetoric - with the focus on natural law, which is based on the law of the strong.
The release expedition led by Laches and Charöades cannot achieve much in the interests of Athens, which is why Laches is later accused by Kleon.

In Sparta, Archidamos II from the Eurypontid dynasty hands over the royal dignity to his son Agis II.

In Athens, because of the Peloponnesian War, there is a dispute between Kleon, the leader of the Democrats, and Nikias , the advocate of the Conservatives, as Kleon wants to charge the Athenians with an additional payment of 200 talents ( Eisphora ) to continue financing the war . An expedition sent to Caria to collect the tribute payments met with resistance and suffered heavy losses.

In Athens, Diotimos and Eucles hold the office of archon .

Roman Republic

November 17: Beginning of the consulate of Gaius Servilius Structus Ahala and Lucius Papirius Mugillanus , who holds this office for the second time.

In Rome , the law lex de bello indicendo is passed, according to which declarations of war are approved or rejected by the Comitia Centuriata .

The bursary can now also be exercised by plebeians .

Culture

The comedy The Feasting Brothers by Aristophanes wins second prize at the Dionysia .

Disasters

Winter 427/426 BC Chr .: The Attic plague rages again in Athens .

Born

Kōan , legendary Japanese Tennō († 291 BC )

Plato

427 or 428 BC BC : Plato , Greek philosopher

Died

Peithias , Kerkyrian politician