-490

This page relates to the year -490 Calendrier Julien proleptic.

Events

With Rome, Consul At of Q. Sulpicius Camerinus Cornutus, Sp. Larcius Flavus (Rufus) II.
Conflict between Athens and Egine (fine in -481).
Beginning of the reign of Léonidas, king de Sparte (fine in -480)
Miltiade is elected strategist with Athens.

Beginning of the medic Wars between Greek and Persian S (fine in -449). Old the King de Sparte, Démarate is carried out by Darius Ier because learning the projects from king towards the Greek cities it had informs its compatriots.

Datis, the chief of the fleet Perse seizes Naxos, which is burnt and whose population is reduced in slavery. The other islands of the Cyclades adopt Persians, which unload with Carystos, in the south of the Eubée, which resists, then subjects themselves after the seat of the city and the confusion of its territory. Érétrie, threatened, request assistance of Athens which sends the 4000 clérouques ones (Athenian colonists) of Chalcis. Erétriens, divided, return them finally, and capitulate at the end of six days of seat. The city is plundered, its burnt temples and its population taken along in captivity.
Datis unloads then in bay of Marathon. It seems that he counts on the assistance of the partisans of tyranny because old the Tyran Hippias, taken refuge with Sigée, had become vassal of Darius Ier and still had partisans in Athens.
Miltiade decides Callimaque Polémarque to vote for the battle whereas the strategists hesitated of the strategy to follow.
September 13rd: Miltiade, with the head of ten thousand Athenians and 600 Platéens, rejects the Persian, higher army of number (25 000 men), with the sea with the Bataille of Marathon. 6400 Persian combatants are killed, for 192 Greeks. Hippias, which took part in forwarding with Persians, dies in Lemnos during the retirement.
the Persian admiral Datis re-embarks his troops and tries the seat of Phalère but a forced march of Miltiade obliges it to be withdrawn.
Darius Ier probably contemplates a new offensive when a revolt in Egypt bursts which forces it to give to later its projects against the Greece.

Art & culture

Rise of the Ceramic with red figures on black bottom in Greece.
Begging Them , tragedy of Eschyle.

-490/ -470 : In Sicily, Sélinonte builds two new temples and completes the enormous temple of Apollon (more than 110 meters length). Syracuse dedicates a temple to Athéna and raises a temple of the victory with Himère. Agrigente denies a temple with Héra and undertakes the construction of a Olympieion, which, if it had been completed, would have reached 110 meters length.

Births in -490

Phidias, Greek sculptor with Athens.

Death in -490

Démarate, King de Sparte.
Hippias, old Tyrant of Athens, died with Lemnos as a combatant in the rows of the Persian .
Lao Zi (Lao Tseu, born v. -590), Chinese philosopher founder of the taoism. Its school condemns technological advances and the institutions, which control the man and degrade his natural virtues.

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