Timeline

(ALL DATES B.C.)

454    Birth of Malgis, founder of the farm on Mt. Helikon

431    War between Athens and Sparta breaks out. Thebes joins the Spartans.

424    Battle of Delion. Malgis becomes famous for his bravery in the battle.

423    Thebes levels the walls of Thespiai.

423    Malgis scouts out Mt. Helikon and begins to carve out a farm with his father Antander.

422    Battle of Amphipolis. Sixteen-year-old Gorgos fights for the Spartans under Brasidas.

420    First visits of Alkidamas to the farm on Mt. Helikon

419    Birth of Mêlon, son of Malgis

415–13    Malgis campaigns in Sikily with the Spartans, leaves his father Antander in charge of the new farm.

413    First visit of young Lichas to the farm in search of Mêlon

412    Death of Antander; Malgis plants the high vineyards in Sikilian fashion.

404    Malgis and young Mêlon raid the Attic borderlands; the Peloponnesian War ends.

401–400    Malgis fights with the Ten Thousand in Asia Minor.

399    Malgis on his way home at Chios buys Chiôn from a Spartan trader.

395    Boiotians defeat the Spartans at Haliartos. Malgis strips the armor of the dead Lysander.

394    Thebans battle the Spartans at the Nemea River and Koroneia. Gorgos is captured at Nemea. Death of Malgis at Koroneia.

389    Mêlon buys the child Nêto from a Spartan trader.

380    Kleombrotos becomes the Agiad king at Sparta.

379    Pelopidas and other Thebans expel the Spartans and establish a democracy for the Boiotians.

378    The Spartan king Agesilaos invades Boiotia.

377    Boiotia is invaded again by Agesilaos.

375    Thebes beats Sparta in a small battle at Boiotian Tegyra.

371 The Great Year

SUMMER

Spartans invade Boiotia. Battle of Leuktra and defeat of the Spartans

AUTUMN

Monument at Leuktra is begun. Proxenos and Ainias work on walls of Thespiai and continue visits to the rising walls at Mantineia.

WINTER

Phrynê moves back to Thespiai. Foundations are established of Megalopolis.

370

SPRING

Uprising at Messenia is begun by Nikôn and Doreios.

SUMMER

Nêto and Erinna leave for the Peloponnesos; Chiôn marries Damô.

AUTUMN

Nêto and Erinna arrive in Messenia.

WINTER

Muster of the Boiotians, arrival in the Peloponnesos. Fight at the Eurotas. Voyage of the Theôris to Messenia

369

WINTER/SPRING

Epaminondas, with the Argive and Theban armies, heads over Mt. Taygetos to Messenia; Chiôn disappears on Mt. Taygetos. The walls of Messenê rise on Mt. Ithômê. The Thebans head home.

369–68

Second invasion of the Peloponnesos by Epaminondas.

366

Epaminondas invades the Peloponnesos a third time.

364

Pelopidas dies in battle at Cynoscephalai in Thessaly.

362

Final Boiotian invasion of the Peloponnesos; Mêlon and Epaminondas die on Skopê after the Theban victory at Mantineia.