This page relates to the year -406 Calendrier Julien proleptic.

Events

Roman world

• Beginning of the seat of the Etruscan city of Véies by the Roman dictator Camille, which wishes to seize its saltworks. (→ 396). The city is abandoned with its fate by the Etrusque confederation whose aristocracy even is favorable to the Romans.

• Offensive of Rome counter the Volsques. The military powerful orator NR. Fabius Ambustus takes Anxur (Terracine) and transforms it into a fortified town charged to cover the Latium towards the south.

Greek world

• the Carthaginian generals Hannibal and Himilcon put the seat in front of Agrigente at spring. Agrigente recruits many mercenary and receives an army of help of Syracusains and other Sicilians under the direction of Daphnaeos. The Greeks, victorious on ground, undergo a heavy defeat on sea. The city, which misses supply, is abandoned with the Carthaginians which make enormous spoils. Its inhabitants take refuge with Géla or Syracuse.

• Government of Denys Old the (-430/-367), tyrant of Syracuse ( stratègos autokratôr )

• has Syracuse, Denys shows the strategists syracusains treason and requires their judgment without lawsuit. A fine is inflicted to him, which is paid on the fields by the rich person Philistos. The strategists are condemned, and a new college is elected, of which made Denys party. Later, Denys obtains the return of the outlaws, old in favor of Hermocrate. Sent to Froze to organize resistance against Carthage, Denys persuades the people to condemn to dead the richest citizens to confiscate their goods and to increase balances it troops. Denys returns then to Syracuse, denounces the negligence of the other strategists, and obtains the full powerss in the army. It obtains by the trick (by putting in scene a false attack against itself) a guard of 600 men which enables him to seize the power. He marries the girl of Hermocrate and makes condemn to dead his opponents (Daphnaeos).

• Athens is demolished with the Bataille of Concept by Lysandre. Alcibiade, which is not responsible for the defeat, but could not obtain the alliance of Persians, is relieved.
• Disgrace of Alcibiade. Conon takes the command of the Athenian fleet.
• Callicratidas replaces Lysandre with the head of the armies Spartans and blocks initially Conon in Mytilène. But it east demolishes and killed with the naval battle of the islands Arginuses.
• Athens calls upon all the classes of the company, the Métèques, to which it gives the citizenship, and with the slaves, who receive freedom and citizenship. It succeeds in gathering 110 ships, to which are added 30 ships wet to Samos and 10 Samiens ships. This fleet succeeds in beating the fleet of Sparte, disorientated by the loss of its Callicratidas chief, in the Arginuses islands.

• Lawsuit of the strategists in Athens: in the Arginuses islands, if the Athenians lost only 25 ships against 70 for Sparte, the storm and the hesitations of the command prevent the Athenians collecting drowned and from fishing out the corpses. The strategists, of return to Athens, are condemned to died in block and are carried out, in spite of the opposition of Socrate.

• Socrate is indicated by drawing lot with the supreme office of the council (prytane of the Boulê).

• Bacchantes , of Euripide.
• Oedipus in Colone , of Sophocle.

Births

Death in -406

• Hannibal de Giscon

• Euripide, Greek tragedy .
• Sophocle, Greek tragedy .
• Callicratidas