-470

This page relates to the year -470 Calendrier Julien proleptic.

Events

With Rome, Consul At of L. Valerius Potitus (Publicola) (for the second time) and Ti. Aemilius Mamercinus (Mamercus).

Tour of the suffète Carthaginian Hannon in Guinea (-530 /-470). It founds six colonies gathering nearly a thousand of people along the African coast and explores two rivers, perhaps the Gambia and the Senegal.

If the voyage of Hannon is not attested, it is extremely probable that an important gold traffic took place between Senegal and the Carthaginian counters of the Atlantic littoral. In the east the counter of Lepcis receives skins and invaluable stones brought by the caravans come from the Fezzan. Carthage is in contact with the Sahara by the counter of Sabratha, in relation to Cidamus (Ghadamès), starting point of the road of the tanks towards the Hoggar and the Niger. The Carthaginians work finally the mines of copper and money of Sardinia like those of Ténès, in Algérie.

Hérodote reports that a trade of gold, called “trade with the dumb woman” takes place between Carthage and a country of Africa of the Atlantique coast. The Carthaginians unload goods on the strike, light a fire to prevent of their arrival, and go up in their vessels. The inhabitants of the country leave on sand the quantity of gold which they offer for the cargo and are turned over from there in their hiding-place. If the quantity of gold appears sufficient to them, the Carthaginians take it and from go away, leaving the goods. If not, they re-embark and wait until the autochtones add gold until they are satisfied.

Beginning of the career of the Greek painter Polygnote (fine in -440).
Beginning of the career of the Greek sculptor Myron (fine in -430).
Beginning of the construction of the Temple of Zeus with Olympie, built by the architect Libon d' Elis (- 470/-460).

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